SHIFTING in a Sentence

Learn SHIFTING from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
147 example sentences for SHIFTING, such as:
1. She's on the night shift this week.
2. He was shifting about uneasily in his chair.
3. Daniel was shifting anxiously from foot to foot.
4. The result reflects a modest rightward shift in opinion.
5. You'll have to shift if you want to get there by nine o'clock.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of SHIFTING
shifting
 a.  (of soil) unstable
 a.  changing position or direction
Classic Sentence: (90 in 7 pages)
1  "I ain't takin no orders from you," he said briefly, shifting his wad of tobacco to the other cheek.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
2  Under Morpeth's guidance her vivid plastic sense, hitherto nurtured on no higher food than dress-making and upholstery, found eager expression in the disposal of draperies, the study of attitudes, the shifting of lights and shadows.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
3  He spoke pantingly, like a tired runner, with breaks of exhaustion between his words; and through the breaks she caught, as through the shifting rents of a fog, great golden vistas of peace and safety.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
4  Her parents too had been rootless, blown hither and thither on every wind of fashion, without any personal existence to shelter them from its shifting gusts.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
5  Though the town seemed to Carol to change no more than the surrounding fields, there was a constant shifting, these three years.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
6  And then, when he was able to use his hands, Jurgis took his bedding again and went back to his task of shifting rails.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
7  The warrior whose eye is open can see his enemy, said Magua, once more shifting his ground, when he found himself unable to penetrate the caution of his companion.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28
8  He was despondent and sullen, and threw shifting glances about him.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
9  The leaves, with their faces turned toward the blaze, were colored shifting hues of silver, often edged with red.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
10  Gray mists were slowly shifting before the first efforts of the sun rays.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
11  He was trudging along with stooped shoulders and shifting eyes like a man who has been caned and kicked.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
12  He pointed out to me the shifting colours of the landscape and the appearances of the sky.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
13  "You ought to live in California--" began Miss Baker but Tom interrupted her by shifting heavily in his chair.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
14  These, with their perplexities and inconsistencies, were the shifting quicksands of my mind, from the time of my departure to the time of my return home, three years afterwards.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 58. ABSENCE
15  "At home for sure," said the peasant, shifting from one bare foot to the other, and leaving a distinct print of five toes and a heel in the dust.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 17
Example Sentence: (57 in 4 pages)
1  Shoppers remain fickle and disloyal and are still shifting to retailers who offer the most immediate savings.
2  This did not seem to encourage the witness at all: he kept shifting from one foot to the other, looking uneasily at the Queen.
3  This did not seem to encourage the witness at all: he kept shifting from one foot to the other, looking uneasily at the Queen, and in his confusion he bit a large piece out of his teacup.
4  According as the shifting obscurity and flickering gleam hovered here or glanced there, it was now the bearded physician, Luke that bent his brow.
5  He's annoying to argue with because he keeps shifting his ground.
6  He was shifting about uneasily in his chair.
7  Joe listened, shifting uncomfortably from one foot to another.
8  Daniel was shifting anxiously from foot to foot.
9  It was a clear attempt to shift the responsibility for the crime onto the victim.
10  She's on the night shift this week.
11  She was asked to work the weekend shift but she tried to beg off.
12  The shift in the balance of forces is also reflected in international finance.
13  We observe a striking shift away from a labor theory among all mainline economists.
14  You'll have to shift if you want to get there by nine o'clock.
15  The result reflects a modest rightward shift in opinion.