shifting

How to use shifting in a sentence

Thus all about us is the moving and shifting spectacle of riches and poverty, side by side, inextricable.

Only at moments was he aware of this—a kind of higher Self, detached from shifting moods, looked on calmly and took note.

THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOOD

When the sailors are employed in shifting the sails, great care must be taken to avoid injury by the falling of any of the ropes.

Then dawn flung itself impetuously across the hills, and the naked rim of the canyon took form in a shifting whirl of smoke.

RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR

I eventually came to one of the largest, where by considerable shifting they managed to accommodate my car.

"I think so," she whispered, her eyes shifting nervously toward the shadows behind.

Jumps due to shifting of the mirror are characterized by a gentle, gliding motion.

Boys and girls paired off rather early, and remained paired by tacit agreement; there was comparatively little shifting.

They are very timid, and will not look a stranger in the face, their bead-like eyes constantly shifting.

Shifting Sands (Lane) reads like a book with a purpose from which the purpose has been by some oversight omitted.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985