How to Use crush in a Sentence
- Crush the nuts and sprinkle them on top of the cake.
- The rocks were crushed into dust.
- Her arm was crushed in the accident.
- The bicycle was crushed under the truck's tires.
- The machine crushes the cans so that they can be stored until they are recycled.
- Unfortunately some of the flowers got crushed when we were moving them.
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Some of them were crushed by it.
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Howard Cohen,
Miami Herald,
4 Sep. 2025
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Her spine and hips and neck crushed.
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Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Ohtani turned on it and crushed it.
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Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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It hasn’t been crushed out of them yet.
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Stuart Miller,
Oc Register,
20 Jan. 2026
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His throat was slit and his skull was crushed.
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Keith Sharon,
Nashville Tennessean,
7 Oct. 2025
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And all three of those, in this case, crushed it.
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Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
17 Apr. 2026
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Derek crushed many, many, many rolls at lunch that day.
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Michael Russo,
New York Times,
8 Oct. 2025
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But the price to pay will have been crushing.
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Gabrielle Rockson,
PEOPLE,
21 Oct. 2025
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Good job, team, and keep crushing it.
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Andrew Dampf,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Feb. 2026
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Cramer disagrees with how the stock got crushed.
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Natasha Abellard,
CNBC,
28 Feb. 2026
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What was crushing down on me that night was death.
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Literary Hub,
17 Sep. 2025
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Her cars were crushed by the tree inside her garage.
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Charlie De Mar,
CBS News,
25 June 2026
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Some big winners and some stocks that get crushed.
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Brian Sullivan,
CNBC,
13 May 2026
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Hodges was trapped, his whole body getting crushed.
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Jamie Thompson,
The Atlantic,
6 Jan. 2026
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It's hit hard, hit fast, crush the bad guys, get the hostage and get out.
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David Hookstead Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
19 May 2026
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Large cap stocks have been crushing small caps in the last few years.
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Michael Foster,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Add olive oil, salt, and crushed red pepper; toss to coat.
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Better Homes & Gardens,
3 June 2026
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In recent days, both sides had crushed hopes for a quick endgame.
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Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
9 Mar. 2026
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Fouls and turnovers crushed the Sparks’ rally.
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Jordan Puente,
Los Angeles Times,
18 June 2026
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Not just do it but hopefully crush it.
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Gerrad Hall,
Entertainment Weekly,
22 June 2026
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It was born out of a crushing defeat.
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Jon Krawczynski,
New York Times,
9 Jan. 2026
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To have been second again would have been crushing.
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Michael Walker,
New York Times,
22 May 2026
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And yet the stock got crushed in after-hours trading.
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Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
23 Apr. 2026
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Add spice with diced chile peppers or crushed red pepper flakes.
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Sarah Martens,
Better Homes & Gardens,
15 Sep. 2025
- The crush in the train station is at its worst during the afternoon rush hour.
- Outside the hotel stood a crush of reporters waiting for her arrival.
- Yesterday I saw my old high school crush for the first time in five years.
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Who was your first celeb crush?
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Julie Jordan,
PEOPLE,
4 Nov. 2025
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Wait three days to text a crush?
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Usa Today,
USA Today,
4 Mar. 2026
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The specter of her crush never leaves.
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Mariella Rudi,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Apr. 2026
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Or that your student crush’s is?
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Han Ong,
New Yorker,
15 Mar. 2026
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Babe, that’s not a power, that’s a crush.
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Rebecca Alter,
Vulture,
15 June 2026
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She’s been written up more times than your high school crush.
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Simone Jasper,
Charlotte Observer,
13 Oct. 2025
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In a world full of bad news, crushes can fuel us.
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Pema Bakshi,
Refinery29,
18 Sep. 2025
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Many children have their first crushes at about the same time.
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Harriette Cole,
Mercury News,
22 Aug. 2025
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Or was my father simply a crush?
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Literary Hub,
4 Nov. 2025
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The crush of death is still raw, but not quite all-consuming.
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Kate Tuttle,
Peoplemag,
22 Apr. 2023
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No more crushes, no more secret pacts.
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Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
27 May 2026
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On a lighter note, your crush might start texting in full paragraphs again.
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Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
26 Oct. 2025
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Cena said of his childhood crush.
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EW.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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My answer, for most work crushes, is to start small — and in a group.
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Meredith Goldstein,
BostonGlobe.com,
31 Aug. 2023
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Your first childhood crush saying no.
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Big Think,
18 Mar. 2026
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My assailant, who was my long-time crush, left because the blood grossed him out.
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Literary Hub,
27 Apr. 2026
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Spying on a crush seemed the kind of thing Nancy would do.
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Literary Hub,
2 Mar. 2026
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Her dad will be cool with it and so will her younger sister, who has a crush of her own on a girl.
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Mary Ann Grossmann,
Twin Cities,
26 Apr. 2026
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Leave the texture of the graham crackers at a coarse crush.
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Ann Taylor Pittman,
Southern Living,
9 Sep. 2025
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The downsides are that the enormous blades are tricky to transport and crush.
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Laura Paddison,
CNN,
28 May 2023
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For the filling, start by spreading the crush with softened cream cheese.
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Sarah Martens,
Better Homes & Gardens,
25 Oct. 2025
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And if that includes a crush or two, well, that’s probably a good thing.
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Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
26 May 2026
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Follow the tips below on how to flirt over text and your crush will respond in no time.
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Leah Campano,
Seventeen,
5 May 2023
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But that, at least in part, is what gives her crush such a devout and visionary tenor.
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Literary Hub,
10 June 2026
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Candy crush Want to know the true signal that fall has arrived?
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Compiled By Elaine Rogers, Stephanie Allmon Merry and Celeste Williams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
30 Jan. 2024
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You’re tempted to cut off a crush as Mercury meets Mars.
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Usa Today,
USA Today,
15 Mar. 2026
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The other says luck, crush and confusion.
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Kate Hardcastle,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
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