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

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

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