shiftingly
- a word derived from shift.
Example Sentences
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He is, as someone once described Washington's Mayor Marion Barry, a "situationist"--adapting sleekly, almost shape shiftingly, to the situation at hand.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hoover came in ten minutes later, glancing shiftingly around.
From From School to Battle-field A Story of the War Days by King, Charles
Meanwhile, determined Paul flew hither and thither like the meteoric corposant-ball, which shiftingly dances on the tips and verges of ships' rigging in storms.
From Israel Potter by Melville, Herman
The light that filled and surrounded him had a nucleus, a core—something shiftingly human shaped—that dissolved and changed, gathered itself, whirled through and beyond him and back again.
From The Moon Pool by Merritt, Abraham
