shunt
verb (used with object)
to shove or turn (someone or something) aside or out of the way.
are shunting
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present progressiveof shunt.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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On this metal- covered plain several trains are shunting slowly back and forth.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
Astern the jettymen and stevedores are wrangling over their latest job; trains are shunting, cranes working, trucks discharging their cargoes amid clouds of dust.
From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
