shuffle
verb (used without object)
to walk without lifting the feet or with clumsy steps and a shambling gait.
have been shuffling
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present perfect progressiveof shuffle.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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The resurgence of the coronavirus has meant many students have been shuffling in and out of quarantines, or forced to return to online learning because of acute staff shortages.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 24, 2021
Hollywood studios have been shuffling their schedules throughout the pandemic but had hoped for a moviegoing rebound in the autumn.
From Reuters ● Aug. 12, 2021
And if there was another tired bureaucracy that just seemed to have been shuffling papers, and there were no outputs, you might abolish that altogether.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 7, 2016
Customers have been shuffling across this sawdust-strewn floor beneath sausages hung from the tin ceiling and picking out their meat from the butcher case since the place opened in 1906.
From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2015
The house was dark and shabby, and the greasy shoulders that had left their mark in Mr. Jaggers’s room seemed to have been shuffling up and down the staircase for years.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
