How to Use shape-shifter in a Sentence

shape-shifter

noun

• Not only is it filled with hostile life-forms, but the planet itself is a shape-shifter — meaning its geography changes with each new mission.
  — ABC News, 24 Apr. 2026
• This tangy shape-shifter has endured millennia of social and technological evolution and has emerged a culinary powerhouse many cooks can’t live or leaven without.
  — Emily Saladino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 Mar. 2026
• There’s no real benefit to showing more of the human Pennywise, which, if anything, undermines the horror of the shape-shifter’s most infamous form.
  — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2025
• While Coqotamat is a shape-shifter who wears the faces of a thousand women to lure children away and swallow them whole, the girls are running away from a fate that has been wearing the same face for generations.
  — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• One particularly compelling framework plays on the idea of the family—again, especially Kim, as cultural shape-shifters.
  — Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
• And while New York has long been seen as more main character than setting in many movies and series, Los Angeles has, historically, leveraged its shape-shifter abilities.
  — Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2026
• Hatcher — a Pomo shape-shifter who dodges prejudice by passing as Mexican in the novel — is a thorny protagonist, often cunning, scheming and unforgiving.
  — Maddie Connors, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2026
• In this telling, Warsh is a partisan shape-shifter who advocates for high interest rates (which results in slower growth and higher unemployment) under Democrats and lower rates (faster growth, lower unemployment) under Republicans.
  — Rogé Karma, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2026
• In his experiences and chronicles of the great ideological battles of the twentieth century, Curzio Malaparte was a shape-shifter—pitiless, clinical, cynical, unsentimental, indifferent to morality and idealism.
  — Rachel Donadio, The New York Review of Books, 5 Feb. 2026
• Like previous winners Everything Everywhere All at Once and Anora, OBAA was an Oscars shape-shifter capable of embodying multiple narratives at the same time.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2026