shunt
verb (used with object)
to shove or turn (someone or something) aside or out of the way.
had shunted
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past perfectof shunt.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Only the most niggling of Mr. Hoover's critics would suggest that he had shunted the Ambassador to Geneva to nip a nascent Dawes-for-President boom.
From Time Magazine Archive
For more than a month he had shunted aside most other business while he consulted secretaries, statisticians, counselors and Cabinet members about the speech.
From Time Magazine Archive
Over the years, the blood vessels had quadrupled their capacity; they had shunted enough blood around the aorta block to keep Gormley alive.
From Time Magazine Archive
No one was on deck, and it was apparent that the Columbus banks had shunted the craft clear across the river and down the chute, just as Rasba himself had been carried.
From The River Prophet by Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen) Coleman
Even if I had an official ratin' in the Corrugated now, and a few weeks back had shunted her off from a losin' stock deal, she wa'n't tryin' to decoy me into the fam'ly.
From Torchy, Private Sec. by F. Foster Lincoln
