Example Sentences

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Skid row has long been the downtown zone where Los Angeles has shunted services for its most destitute.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2022

And he has shunted himself into a different closet: Almost no one knows he’s a vampire.

From New York Times • Feb. 11, 2022

They also suggest that Psyche’s strangely low density can be explained if it still has a rocky mantle layer, and ferrovolcanism has shunted metals up from the deep interior onto the surface.

From Scientific American • Apr. 25, 2019

Meanwhile, the jam-packed field has shunted seven candidates out of the main debate and into an undercard.

From Time • Aug. 5, 2015

"Eleanor has shunted those objectionable bumpkins after all."

From When the Birds Begin to Sing by Piffard, Harold