Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shimmying
Verb
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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.—
Edna Bonhomme,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025 -
By the end of the night, so many fans had crowd-surfed from the pit to the stage, clambering onto the platform, that the band members were barely visible.—
Audrey Gibbs,
Nashville Tennessean,
16 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Are Fanny and her mother related to Claire in some other way — Claire’s mother, Julia, sings the same song to her newborn son William, who could still be bopping around singing that song in the 18th century.—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
6 Mar. 2026
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The energy was infectious, and the crowd still sang along, bouncing their shoulders and bopping their heads.—
Christopher Harris,
CBS News,
27 Feb. 2026
Verb
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So what better way to cap all that off than closing out the Oscars — even if the clip played while the audience was shuffling out of the theater and calling their Ubers.—
Tom Smyth,
Vulture,
16 Mar. 2026
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At Chicago O’Hare International Airport, a CNN reporter saw chaotic scenes, with passengers shuffling from line to line.—
Amanda Musa,
CNN Money,
16 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Paparazzi has been swarming the production’s early days filming in Los Angeles.—
Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
20 Mar. 2026
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The sky is swarming with satellites and space telescopes.—
Lee Billings,
Scientific American,
18 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Officials have been scrambling to ease prices.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
17 Mar. 2026
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This, in turn, can leave you scrambling to cover basic expenses, especially if your finances were already stretched thin to begin with.—
Angelica Leicht,
CBS News,
16 Mar. 2026
Verb
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That left the administration scrabbling for other ways to reimpose duties that were struck down.—
Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
12 Mar. 2026
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Next went Marshall Allen, hands on his sax like feral scrabbling mice.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Notably, as Eric and Carol were chatting to Sara, BBC Studios was re-jigging its APAC division in order to bring Australia and Asia under one roof.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
14 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Herson said the key to ascending the rock wall is two shallow vertical cracks running parallel up the length of the pitch.—
Frederick Dreier,
Outside,
16 Mar. 2026
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Priyanka was also on presenting duty then, ascending the stage with Liev Schreiber to announce the winner of Best Film Editing.—
Christina Perrier,
InStyle,
15 Mar. 2026
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“Shimmying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shimmying. Accessed 22 Mar. 2026.
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