chivvy

How To Use chivvy In A Sentence

• I don't have time to absorb much, though: some white-coated women and Dr Stone chivvy me towards an uncomfortable-looking chair.
• Given so many of us have our own private health and fitness goals it might help to chivvy people along. Cheeseburger Gothic » Hammered.
• Walking on will only disturb them again and again, and having no wish to chivvy them the length of the beach we detour along the track through the dunes, regaining the sands with the gulls behind us and miles of beach ahead. Country diary: South Uist
• To chivvy the unconjugal to conjugate may to be store up greater unhappiness. David Cameron should honour his marriage vow
• He said: ‘He used his significant influence with the Church of England to chivvy us all, Anglicans and others, into getting on with some really creative shared actions.’
• Soon after we arrived, when Joe had gone below stairs to chivvy the porters about our bags, and Annette and I were alone, I excused myself to visit the privy along the way. THE NUMBERS
• He kept putting off writing the report so I had to chivvy him along.
• The action plan he has produced will involve thoroughly cleaning the school, chivvying students to get to school and lessons on time and encouraging them to take pride in the school and their work.
• To recap the latest episode, the authors have stooped to the hoary old plot device of a startling newspaper revelation to chivvy the drama along.
• If you are owed money by people following some sponsored event, keep chivvying them to ensure that they all pay up.