shimmying

present participle of shimmy

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for shimmying
Verb
  • 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
  • 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.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Hope turned up on night two of the group’s DEADLINE world tour on July 6 at Goyang Stadium in Goyang, South Korea, bopping along to ROSÉ, LISA, JENNIE and JISOO from his seat.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Daniels, meanwhile, was hit 10 times by Green Bay’s swarming defense and faced pressure on nearly half of his dropbacks.
    Nicki Jhabvala, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The 1950s saw the Type 1 spread globally, especially swarming roads in the United States during the 1960s.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • To him, the equipment staff shuffling pieces around on the field during practice is just as important as the head coach standing by.
    Christopher Kamrani, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • During the 2024 rampage, two suspects wearing masks were captured on surveillance video shuffling up a driveway and firing weapons towards the home.
    Peter D'Abrosca, FOXNews.com, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Emergency services are scrambling to find survivors today, with military troops, police and civilian volunteers carrying out door-by-door searches.
    Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Nonetheless, it was widely seen as an opening move that had other feds scrambling for hard answers from bosses.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • He’s blessed with a tense, scrabbling physicality on screen, plus a baby-Brando glower beneath a head of striking blond curls, and Nemes directs him into a stance of braced, vulnerable defensiveness that serves the film’s purposes well — even if his character, too, wants for interior light.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Her left hand is scrabbling over the surface of the thin soil, grasping at dead leaves, something to wipe herself.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The ascending Young was even better with 32 points, 10 dimes and zero turnovers.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • But of all the accidents reported across North America in 2024, 100 occurred while climbers were ascending.
    Maya Silver, Outside, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The latest reading reveals that inflation has caught up with many items with the overall index climbing nearly 11% over the past two and a half years.
    Alexander Coolidge, Cincinnati Enquirer, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Simple tasks like sitting on the couch, climbing into a car seat or getting down on the floor became difficult.
    Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
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“Shimmying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shimmying. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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