mover and shaker
Example Sentences
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Always rumpled, always mumbling, his 6-foot-7-inch frame often slumping, he was not trying to be a globe-trotting master of industry or political mover and shaker.
From New York Times
“He was the prototype of an insider powerful senator, a mover and shaker.”
From New York Times
“This man was a real mover and shaker. You just feel an affinity for that” she said.
From Washington Times
He was also a mover and shaker in the Episcopal Diocese of Washington.
From Washington Post
Putin has bathed in the kudos of seeming to supplant the US as the Middle East’s big mover and shaker.
From The Guardian
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
