shimmies

present tense third-person singular of shimmy

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for shimmies
Verb
  • Joe, glowering, stalks off through the crowd, clambers into his vehicle, and drives off.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Because global air travel shuffles millions of people around the world daily, an outbreak of a very contagious disease anywhere can become a threat everywhere.
    Amy E. Stambach, The Conversation, 12 Aug. 2025
  • With Noni Madueke doubled up on out wide, Zubimendi shuffles backwards to receive the pass, and then fires a pass into Martin Odegaard, breaking the first two lines of the opposition’s 4-4-2 defensive block.
    Thom Harris, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The family is expected to remain there and not move to Buckingham Palace when William ascends to the throne.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 3 Sep. 2025
  • In Jewish mysticism, sleep is described as a time when the soul ascends to connect with higher realms.
    Rabbi Bruce D. Forman, Sun Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The only actor who looks at home here is Chloë Sevigny as Kim, the resident Yale Philosophy Department psychotherapist, who struts through the movie in a series of baggy suits and a curly bowl haircut that wouldn’t be out of place on the Beverly Hillbillies’ Miss Jane Hathaway.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 29 Aug. 2025
  • But the Maginot instead crashes in a part of southeast Asia that’s the dominion of Prodigy, a corporation founded by Boy Kavalier (Samuel Blenkin), an overgrown child obsessed with Peter Pan, who struts around his research facility barefoot in pajamas.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2025
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“Shimmies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shimmies. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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