SHUFFLE in a Sentence

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For SHUFFLE, below is one of 48 sentences:
The group in blue shuffled their feet and looked embarrassed and after several clearings of throats, they tramped out.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHUFFLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
shuffle
 v.  disorder; move back and forth; mix so as to make a random order or arrangement
Classic Sentence: (43 in 3 pages)
1  Even Raymie lost his simple faith, and tried to show that he could do a vaudeville shuffle.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
2  Nobody could pretend, as they looked at the shuffle of shilling shockers that week-enders had dropped, that the looking-glass always reflected the anguish of a Queen or the heroism of King Harry.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
3  Nevertheless the guest did at least execute such a convulsive shuffle that the material with which the cushions of the chair were covered came apart, and Manilov gazed at him with some misgiving.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
4  No wonder that Luke Black, slow, dull, and discouraged, shuffles to our carriage and talks hopelessly.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VII
5  Gerald looked at her bowed head and shuffled his feet uneasily.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
6  Then feet shuffled up the back-porch stairs and into the passageway leading to the main house, stopping in the hall just outside the dining room.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
7  "I'm sorry, Miss Scarlett," and he shuffled his feet nervously.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
8  The group in blue shuffled their feet and looked embarrassed and after several clearings of throats, they tramped out.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
9  Peter shuffled to his feet, caught up the teakettle and mixed him some hot water and whiskey.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
10  Tony shuffled uneasily in her cloth slippers.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
11  His feet shuffled along the ground.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
12  With many mumbled blessings and protestations of gratitude the old crone packed it away in her pocket, and shuffled off down the stairs.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
13  She shuffled her feet to clear a space.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 13
14  She pushed the candle impatiently away; and once or twice as she feverishly changed her position, shuffled her feet upon the ground; but this was all.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
15  For two streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
Example Sentence:
1  Not until this turbulent region can shuffle off the burdens of the past will it be able to settle peacefully into the community of nations.
2  The local authority may then try to shuffle these responsibilities off onto another authority.
3  He will shuffle his funds among different accounts in various countries.
4  The line shuffled forward a little.
5  The official signaled to one of the waiters, who shuffled forward.