Example Sentences

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Starting this weekend, Sound Transit light-rail passengers will shimmy through crowds and detours for 10 weeks while workers build new track connections from Seattle to the Eastside.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 2, 2020

And while Fantasia herself may snooze, guests will shimmy: Plans call for an animal-moves dance and a slither-to-the-finish-line snake race.

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2014

Bette Midler will play Mother Earth, and Madonna will shimmy for the rain forest.

From Time Magazine Archive