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54 examples of Shrugging in a sentence

Shrugging our shoulders in the dark?
See now if you can spot him saying, "yes" while shaking his head "no," slightly shrugging his shoulders.
You need to adjust the height of it, and you just do it by shrugging.
The original Crow movie had me in tears at the end because the love story was so touching; The Salvation had me shrugging my shoulders wondering why I even bothered to buy the movie.
The writers sitting down and figuring out some tighter storyline rather than getting the easy way out and shrugging off all coherence.
Around the world, people are being admitted to hospitals with infections that do not respond to antibiotics, and relatively benign germs – like Klebsiella and E. coli – have become potent killers, shrugging off medicines that in the past easily contained them.
Chinese intellectuals tend to avoid the issue, shrugging it off as irrelevant and anyway too unpleasant to contemplate.
Firms cannot be allowed to profit from damaging content, while shrugging off responsibility for its consequences.
The Economy of FearThe global economy seems to be walking on water, shrugging off soaring oil prices, policy paralysis in Europe, unsustainable borrowing by the United States, and record housing prices.
And now that France, reeling from the Paris attacks, has declared war on the Islamic State, other European countries are shrugging their shoulders, mumbling condolences, and silently hoping that the conflict will spare them.
Capital, the engine of economic growth, sits idle – shrugging everywhere.
By free-riding on security matters and simply shrugging their shoulders at persistently high trade surpluses, they, too, bear responsibility for today’s nationalist resurgence.
They are all practiced in blithely dismissing mistakes and shrugging off incendiary past statements, conflicts of interest, corruption allegations, lying and deception, and improper dealings.
Although these tectonic shifts will leave most Americans worse off, the US seems to be shrugging its collective shoulders.
They entered two or three at a time, stood in front of it, and then went away without a word, shrugging their shoulders as if their backs were crushed.
She was certainly not there, but he still saw Chaval, affecting to jeer, shrugging his shoulders, but devoured by jealousy and ready to sell himself for a little of this popularity.
But his voice was lost in the midst of so frightful a tumult that he had to leave the window again, simply shrugging his shoulders.
"Have it your way, sir," the harpooner replied, shrugging his shoulders.
The Canadian didn't even bother shrugging his shoulders.
The chemist went on—"You may say what you like; his table is better than yours; and if one were to think, for example, of getting up a patriotic pool for Poland or the sufferers from the Lyons floods—""It isn't beggars like him that'll frighten us," interrupted the landlady, shrugging her fat shoulders.
You come here and make scenes with her!"His mother, shrugging her shoulders, declared it was "all put on."
"Get along!" he said, shrugging his shoulders; "you've not got anything."
"Perhaps you're afraid?""I afraid?" replied he, shrugging his shoulders.
"Ah! don't mention it, my good Tom; the thought makes my head ache," replied the other, shrugging up his shoulders.
He took it down, and shrugging his shoulders, called himself a fool.
Laurent began to laugh, shrugging his shoulders.
Such were the expressions with which Angelo Cyrus Bantam, Esquire, M.C., took Mr. Pickwick's hand; retaining it in his, meantime, and shrugging up his shoulders with a constant succession of bows, as if he really could not make up his mind to the trial of letting it go again.
I say awakened, because time and London, business and dissipation, had in some measure quieted it, and I had been growing a fine hardened villain, fancying myself indifferent to her, and chusing to fancy that she too must have become indifferent to me; talking to myself of our past attachment as a mere idle, trifling business, shrugging up my shoulders in proof of its being so, and silencing every reproach, overcoming every scruple, by secretly saying now and then, 'I shall be heartily glad to hear she is well married.'--
"And what do you know about the state you talk of?" said Mme. Bonacieux, shrugging her shoulders.
"Your misfortune is laughable," said Athos, shrugging his shoulders; "I should like to know what you would say if I were to relate to you a real tale of love!""Which has happened to you?""Or one of my friends, what matters?""Tell it, Athos, tell it."
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