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Recent Examples of shimmyFor Ndiaye’s opener, the winger shimmied, finding space on the outside of his marker, before laying on an inch-perfect cross begging to be converted at the back post.—Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2025 Grab an espresso martini and get ready to shimmy the night away.—Rana Good, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025 And while not as much of a crazed scene as the 2019 event, where a menagerie of Dem candidates vied for stage-time as the partiers shimmied shoulder to shoulder, Friday night's event was still high-energy.—Brittany Shepherd, ABC News, 31 May 2025 Rabanne’s signature metal mesh seems in its element as Brazilian funk dancers shimmy their shoulders and flick their feet at lightning speed.—Miles Socha, Footwear News, 21 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for shimmy
The piece is a collection of disused shoemaker boxes, once used by cobblers to keep tools, pressed against each other and stacked up, clambering toward the ceiling.
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Edna Bonhomme,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
One person gets swept up in the water while others clamber to the sides of the area as screams are heard in the background.
Fanning out like urban guerrillas through Paris’ darkened streets well after midnight, the anti-waste activists shinny up walls and drain pipes, reaching for switches to turn off the lights. Click.
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The Christian Science Monitor,
The Christian Science Monitor,
3 Aug. 2022
The slippery custom began a half-century ago merely as a means to dissuade drunken daredevils from attempting to shinny up the poles in order to mingle with paying guests.
Alternatively, continue holding boat pose with your knees bent and shins parallel to the ground (rather than straightening your legs until your body is in a V-shape).
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Cory Martin,
Verywell Health,
17 July 2025
During every chemotherapy cycle, 30 minutes before the medication is administered, the wraps are placed on the patient’s forearms and shins to begin the cooling process.
To watch Lipe-Smith’s Caroline cuddle in bed watching TV on her iPad, or bopping around to JoJo Siwa, or pensively finishing a Popsicle while sitting beside her grandmother at a museum, is to have the sheer malevolence of our current administration and its adherents thrown into sharp relief.
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Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
1 Oct. 2025
There are several methods to get rid of mice, besides adopting a cat or employing Little Bunny Foo Foo to bop them on the head, of course.
The baby used her tail to smack the bird before taking it underwater, resurfacing to show boaters the bird had been skinned, the group said.
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Paloma Chavez,
Sacbee.com,
2 Oct. 2025
The blunt comment by the esteemed brother of director Doug Liman certainly could be skinned over the evolving battle between MPRM Communications and 42West now that its officially gone to the courts.
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