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Shrugging in sentence

54 examples of Shrugging in a sentence

"Well, you see how a man may compromise himself when he does not know what he says," replied Athos, shrugging his shoulders as if he thought himself an object of pity.
"How young this d’Artagnan is!" said Athos, shrugging his shoulders; and he made a sign to Grimaud to bring another bottle.
"That is to say, you are in love with this lady as you were with Madame Bonacieux," said Athos, shrugging his shoulders contemptuously, as if he pitied human weakness.
But Athos only replied to this proposal by shrugging his shoulders.
"That’s lucky," said Athos, shrugging his shoulders.
"Yes," replied my uncle, shrugging his shoulders; "but, in addition to all this, the Icelandic has three numbers like the Greek, and irregular declensions of nouns proper like the Latin."
"But that is impossible," I said shrugging my shoulders, and disgusted at such a ridiculous supposition.
"You are just a little difficile," said he, shrugging his shoulders.
"If that is not--everything!" replied Pencroft, laughing and shrugging his shoulders.
"They repent!" exclaimed the sailor, shrugging his shoulders.
"He can find something," remarked Holmes, shrugging his shoulders.
"But, my dear Mrs. Smith," said Holmes, shrugging his shoulders, "You are frightening yourself about nothing.
'I don't understand what you're doing,' said Levin shrugging his shoulders.
'For the widow,' said Vronsky, shrugging his shoulders.
'Really, I don't understand at all,' said Anna, shrugging her shoulders.
'What can I do?' said Karenin, shrugging his shoulders and raising his eyebrows.
"I know it," said Passepartout, turning to another passenger, "but a simple idea--""Ideas are no use," returned the American, shrugging his shoulders, "as the engineer assures us that we can pass."
"Ass!" replied the detective, shrugging his shoulders and turning on his heel.
Then, shrugging his shoulders and burying his head in his hands, he began to do his work.
I never !' said M. Seurel, slightly shrugging his shoulders, ill at ease at the turn the conversation had taken, yet anxious nevertheless to let us talk like men.
"Thou art afraid, it seems, lest I become a Christian," said Vinicius, shrugging his shoulders.
Chapter XXXIIPETRONIUS went home shrugging his shoulders and greatly dissatisfied.
"All the better for thee and Lygia," answered Petronius;then, shrugging his shoulders, he said, as if to himself,"But it is astonishing how skilled those people are in gaining adherents, and how that sect is extending."
Petronius tried in vain to find the former charms in her, and, shrugging his shoulders, thought that that shadow from Elysian fields was not worth those struggles, those pains, and those tortures which had almost sucked the life out of Vinicius.
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