How To Use Shift In A Sentence

Some of the crew went off-shift, stringing up hybrid bunks and hammocks belowdecks, the others continued working.
The abrupt facies shift, bioturbation and cemented nature of the surfaces suggests that they represent marine flooding surfaces, formed during a rapid rise in relative sea level and/or a reduction in sediment supply.
Now comes the news that her shifty lawyer father has only 48 hours to raise a lot of money or face financial ruin and imprisonment.
His self-image is rooted in robotic toughness, like the shape-shifting, molten-metal fiend in Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
Another friend notes a shift in the type of gifts given at wedding showers, a reversion to 1950s-style offerings: soup ladles and frilly aprons are being unwrapped along with see-through nighties and push-up bras.

Thirty unarmed INS agents accompanied the flight, guarding the handcuffed deportees in shifts, standing in aircraft's aisles at every fifth row.
With a full tank of fuel, the weight bias shifts rearwards slightly, which helps traction, as does the standard limited slip differential.
Regin downshifted, tires squealing as she swerved to dodge a roadkill-bound possum. Dreams of a Dark Warrior
It is also shifting plenty of feminine, lacy lingerie, in the kind of bright colours that go well with a sun tan.
The goal of shifting freight from road to rail has been quietly abandoned.
He shifted in his seat
I believe the clunk was my rear diff. from the hard downshift?? NASIOC
It was settled when incoming workers agreed to work permanent night shifts.
This could take up to an hour and must be completed by the end of a gruelling nine-hour shift.
a loud "ribbit" and called time for people to shift seats. Memphis Commercial Appeal Stories
We had khaki overalls but when we finished our shift, we were covered from head to toe in white dust.
The frequency shifts show an electron movement toward -phosphate, which probably contributes to catalysis by reducing the free activation energy.
In an attempt to break the strike, management used megaphones to instruct the afternoon shift, who were gathered in a car park, to return to work or face immediate dismissal.
I worked another 12 hour shift on Sunday, getting home in time to catch the tail end of the Oscars.
A drop-dead-gorgeous crowd was tangoing away in a makeshift, open-air amphitheater.
In America, where there has been a shift away from big studios towards independent film-makers, Swinton has forged a successful career in both areas.
By using an affirmation, you are attempting to shift yourself so that you can do or be something even though your mind doesn't accept it yet.
The crisp dynamic shifts and organized flourishes whet your appetite for more of the same, especially during the radiant synth pinwheels of the chorus.
Bell was also a sycophant, a Yes man, who could shift his political stance in a heartbeat, talk in circles and dodge any important decision making.
She speculated that the shifting social status of women during the war years stoked male anxiety about female bonding and independence from men.
First, that the agent of abasement shifts from George the indigene sovereign to the "Sons of Belial. The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire
I felt that weird shifting movement and a feathery light object grazed my bare skin.
Either Mrs David has had an enormous impact on her countrymen or a major paradigm shift has occurred.
Liadan questions her boyfriend as she shifts the picture around the page of her scrapbook.
The partisans fought a revolutionary war in a constantly shifting pattern, and their leadership did so with a political aim.
The downshift hits workers of color particularly hard.
The "SynchroRev Match" function automatically controls and adjusts engine speed when shifting to the speed of the next gear position, essentially "blipping" the throttle to smooth out any up / down shifts. Autoblog
This shift signifies the overall message of the film - that Janice is the one with the problem, not Jane.
With this move from conflict to collaboration have come shifts in the language of forestry itself.
The crews found a makeshift stairwell between the first and second floor that further hindered rescue efforts. Times, Sunday Times
It remains to be Seen if that is a genuine , substantial shift, or merely Aeon propaganda.
She heard him curse softly and then he shifted his wait, effectively blocking her attempt at freedom.
Putting it all together yields a compelling story: European banks are shifting their cash assets out of European banks and putting much of them into US banks.
The third section shifts from liberalism to socialism, and from a study of the rise of Ultramontanism to that of Ultramontanism in practice.
As a result, the nexus of America's dairy industry is shifting to such places as New Mexico and Idaho with cheap land and fewer people to complain about the smells wafting from a 5,000-cow dairy farm.
His overall appearance was that of a shifty man who couldn't be trusted.
He downshifted and turned the steering wheel.
Sources say that in city divisions such as Howdenhall, which covers a large part of south Edinburgh, there can be as few as four beat officers available on day and night shifts.
Zoning's underlying presumptions were also more aligned with an ideological shift in the planning profession during the 1920s.
His left ring finger pressed the shift key when he needed to select a capital letter.
He/she can ‘play’ with the gearshift or release the parking brake.
Encerrei a direcção de turma com chave de ouro como sempre, modéstia à parte, pois o cinismo aliado ao shift+insert fazem maravilhas e durante uns dias nem quero sequer pensar em eduquês ou outro idioma semelhante. Encerrado
ShiftRows: cyclicly shift each row by a fixed amount MixColumns: treat each column as a polynomial over the Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
Most men might as well have tried to shift the Kezankian Mountains, but the tribesman was a large man with the strength of the dying, and he caught Conan off balance. Conan and The Mists of Door
Two years ago Jeremy Hawkins downshifted from London's financial district, where he had worked for 23 years, to a home-based life.
You're gonna meet some headcases on this shift!
She shifts effortlessly from folk and blues to upbeat tangos and haunting instrumentals, all interspersed with humorous tales of her life on the road.
The action of a mutual fund or portfolio manager shifting investment assets from one sector of the economy to another.
For example, the right shift key is the same size as the standard letter keys, and lots of typists will go crazy hitting the next-door up arrow instead.
A scientist who discovered that by holding down the shift key on your PC can bypass the copyright protection on music CDs has been threatened with legal action under America's infamous Millennium Act.
But a broader change is under way as the economic centre of gravity shifts eastwards.
A veil of acknowledgment swept across her face as she slowly lifted her eyes and shifted her expression to see me.
But just as terror is about to knock something shifts, perhaps enough consciousness raised that a sinister energy is alchemize, and terror turns and retreats from the door. My Journey to Report on the Horrors and Hope in the Congo (Part VI)
They managed to shift about half of the mentally retarded and emotionally disturbed patients to homes and less restrictive programs.
The new Ford Torque-Shift 5-speed automatic transmission has electronic solenoids to activate the clutch packs, replacing the bands.
Hunkin's page coincided with our acquisition of this book by the delightfully-named Shifty Burke, Memoirs of a safe-breaker, published by Arthur Baker Ltd in 1966.
He swallowed and shifted his astigmatic eyes to the cards in his hand.
Either it had been moved by someone, or something as was more likely, or it had been covered by the shifting sands of the desert.
More homegrown products to enjoy include the legendary heroes of Lucha Libre: those uniquely Mexican wrestling creations who shifted their considerable weight from the lucha ring to the silver screen, and the accompanying lobby cards for their unabashedly shlocky movies are quite often classics. The lurid artistry of the Mexican lobby card
Finally, the reforms aimed to shift the balance of power in determining use of resources from hospital doctors to general practitioners.
He shifted his weight onto his back foot.
But Ornish never mentioned its less pleasant side: the plan shifted costs to patients, spiking deductibles and requiring people to pay 20 percent "coinsurance" when they got sick. Media Blog on National Review Online
I shifted slightly, uncomfortably; the chair was built for different proportions.
The dance sequences shift in tone and energy to suit both the music and the dramatic context.
I was working the swing shift when Albert White said he knew a guy that was going to start a newspaper business.
In a world of shifting boundaries, vanishing borders, and proliferating frontiers, security is even more difficult to achieve.
I think I prefer to shift through information first and take my time to think about what I write - lest all that raw, reactive blabber does nothing but add to the noise.
In all but the most one-sided encounters, however, the ascendancy shifts between the teams.
Sighing, she shifted her grip on the painting and mounted the stairs.
You'd think that the fact it took place, not in a makeshift basement church or at a remote backwoods campsite, but in a Senate office building, might have attracted considerable media frenzy.
Also, the lift builds gradually and the weight of the aircraft shifts relatively slowly from the landing gear to the wing.
The natives congregated in front of the main gate, or would peer over the walls, standing on makeshift bamboo stilts.
The worst troubled flared around the shanty town 's makeshift mosque. The Sun
It is a slow-boiler of a film, an exercise in the suspense that spooky children, locked doors, creaking floors, mist, candles and shifty characters do best.
He told the meeting: ‘It would be unbelievably crass to introduce a system without any other element of modal shift.’
The men worked extra shifts when malfunctions occurred: heavy machine parts and outsized tools had to be moved.
When you read the complete stories of the lives of these saints and shift your focus from the gruesome details of their martyrdoms and extreme ascetical practices, you might meet people who can teach you about being who you are. Rev. James Martin, S.J.: The Saints Were as Strange as You Are - And You Can Be as Holy as They Were
In this city the Markets were held open twenty-four hours a day to better serve the people who worked wildly different shifts throughout the levels of the city.
Of course, I flew from London to Istanbul, so it was a sudden jump from one culture to another, rather than a gradual shift.
Conditions in this makeshift camp on the outskirts of the town are appalling. Times, Sunday Times
For example, the dark blue triangles on the pink background of the rosettes are barely perceptible in the old photograph and may be missed entirely if the viewer is not aware of the value shift.
I felt the advantage had suddenly shifted away from us.
Tom was forcing me to shift focus away from the one person that I loved most and I loathed him for it.
Funny, it is generally accepted as the height of sociolinguistic sophistication to shift the shiftable aspects of your speech (vowel quality being a prime example) in the direction of the speech of those you are speaking to.
Lai let her hand rest on his chest and almost out of reflex he let his hand rest on hers, gripping it lightly as he shifted and settled more relaxedly in her grasp.
The shifting of language in communities may in fact be accelerating with increased mobility and technological advances.
Interestingly, SRAM MTB rear derailleurs are compatible with road levers but SRAM MTB 9-speed shifters are not compatible with SRAM 10-speed MTB or road rear derailleurs. Technical FAQ with Lennard Zinn: Brake questions, compatibility and New Year’s feedback
A good text editor can import SHIFT-JIS and then save as UTF-8.
A structural shift in the nature of the public markets means that opportunities for venture capitalists that weren't there previously are now arising at both ends of the deal spectrum.
Carney highlighted the shift in global bond inflows toward shorter-term durations in recent months. BOC's Carney: Inflation Risks 'Real'
His willingness to shift his message allowed his rivals to ridicule him as an opportunistic flip-flopper. Times, Sunday Times
Not work a shifty deal to remain invisible. The Sun
Later we can use CONTROL to remove colours and SHIFT to add them.
Local fishing crews had told him of the Lombok Strait's fiendishly shifting currents, vicious whirlpools, and unexpected waves far from shore.
The largest shift in molecular weight occurred during the melting stage, but matrix glycans remained at moderately high molecular weight even in overripe fruit, and were not depolymerized to small size.
Additional components comprise an extra electro-hydraulic control valve to actuate fourth-to-fifth and fifth-to-fourth shifts and the extra gear set itself.
We retool each year just to change the design of cars… surely we can do the same, albeit on a grander scale, to shift more commuters to public transit.
Samsung, which for a while supported four different operating systems including its own, called bada, as well as Symbian, Microsoft's Windows Phone 7, and Android, has quietly shifted its focus almost exclusively to the Android over the past few months, so that roughly 80% of the phones its ships run on it. Software Rules at Spain's Phone Confab
These periods can be determined by using shift experiments, in which cultures are shifted between the permissive and restrictive temperature.
Yet the realist vision shifts to the phantasmagoric, as spectator and spectacle undergo carnivalesque reversals and interpenetration, in their darkest and most violent manifestations.
It's also shaped like a bra so it's easier to get on and off - I hook the eyelets while wearing it backwards and then shift the bra around to get my arms through it.
The studio built a movie theater on the island, and it was no makeshift affair.
Moravec takes the opening of the first in a way that connects with Bartók's piano dances, with shifting accents.
We cannot simply shift the responsibility onto someone else.
These pachyderms, originally kept at the Kozhikamudhi working campsite are used for entertaining tourists, conducting elephant safari and for removing fallen trees or for shifting logs.
Municipal legislatures appeared especially prone to corruption, and consequently reformers proposed a shift in authority from the board of aldermen or city council to the mayor.
Some have been there for so many hundreds of years that they have buckled with the shifting of the earth and the passage of time.
He was only partially dressed; his face had the peculiar bulginess of the hard drinker; his eyes were watery and shifty, and several days 'growth of beard, with patchy grey and black spots, gave a stucco effect to his countenance. The Cow Puncher
Some decided to downshift and take cycling less seriously once they became pregnant and had their babies.
The elements we feel and see shift and drift and suspire Perpetual Light : a memorial
Are the shift key and space bar that hard to find on your keyboard, David?
Dogged as a flip-flopper in 2008 for his repeated policy shifts to the right, Mr. Romney is running this time as the unflappable former businessman and nonpolitician. Romney, in Shift, to Court Tea Party
There was a shift in the audience as to the meaning of his sudden exclamation, especially its lack of any emotion.
Her main accomplishment is sort of shifting the rhetoric of the administration's foreign policy away from this kind of unilateralist, "with us or against us" approach that we saw first term. CNN Transcript Dec 2, 2006
The rank and social standing of the subjects of portraiture are also expressed by conventions, which shift with time.
By adjusting the statistics, natural bulges are evened out, allowing for short-term shifts to be inferred more accurately.
In contrast to a conventional nanoparticle dimer plasmon ruler, this new one shows an approximately linear relationship between the resonance wavelength shifts and nanosphere dimer interparticle separation for a linear plasmon ruler. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
The day shift arrives [ arrive ] at eight o'clock.
Do the economics of downshifting to a more frugal car stack up? Times, Sunday Times
Owing in large part to the Administration's ham-handed advance work, the strident conservative anger that erupted this summer over health-care reform has shifted from town halls to school halls.
For designers, sleek good taste became an inspiration as they decisively shifted away from the previously efflorescent period in car design, the fabulous 1950s, with its tailfins, hood ornaments, and whitewall tires. Matthew DeBord: After the Golden Age, Can Car Design Go Green?
A balance of storming multilinear playing suggestive of Keith Jarrett, romantic ballads and fluent improvisation, it's another acceleration in a fast-lane career that shifted from gifted student status to rising star almost overnight. This week's new live music
The high rains supports forests of karri (Eucalyptus diversicolor) and tingle (E. brevistylis, E. jacksonii, and E. guilfoylei), shifting to jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata) and marri (Eucalyptus calophylla) in areas with lower nutrient soils. Jarrah-Karri forest and shrublands
These offer information about shifting shoals, sandbars and such that can be critical for boaters and productive for fishers.
His father worked shifts in a steel mill.
Similarly, if we operate in reverse chronological order (i.e. from t=4 to t=1), the left shift will result in a multiplication by two.
New viral strains arise through a process called antigenic shift, or reassortment, when at least two viruses combine. Scientists Fear People Spread New Swine Flu
Type Is at the command line to quickly shift cursors for isometric drawing views.
We are trying to shift the onus for passenger safety onto the government.
The shift in position of the disaffected crew comes as opinion in the resort town seemed to be swinging behind the former coxswain.
The wind shifted from east to north.
Some of the characters, such as spoilt Premiership stars, shifty agents and publicity-mad bimbos, are instantly identifiable with true-life equivalents and not altogether far-fetched.
They were shown in a make shift stage early dinner on the "teeter" nights so that we could go to enjoy it. Kottu
These gearboxes are a lot different, and I probably didn't do a complete downshift.
A makeshift wooden bridge is the only access to the ramshackle dwelling leading from the road.
Yet despite all this there was an air of conservation, the odd glimpse of the Old World in a narrow dingy lane where a dray horse shifted his weight from one hock to the other, blinking lazy lashes above the nosebag containing his lunch.
The literature of the time provides ample evidence of a dramatic shift in public attitudes.
Nestling next to the ladies of the night were several mustached, glazed-eyed Afghan men who occasionally took unsteady steps onto a makeshift dance floor to bust some surprisingly graceful traditional moves. The Longest War
The virtues of tomorrow, unlike the virtues of yore, will be inspiring shape-shifters whose purpose, in addition to saving us, will be to baffle the certainties and absolutisms of ideologues everywhere.
It became convenient to account for shifts in Freud's work by focusing on his early reliance on drawing and to cite the influence of painters from northern Europe such as Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres and Albrecht Dürer, or even to suggest a false comparison with the Neue Sachlichkeit painters active in Germany in the 1920s but unknown to the young Freud and overlook others as relevant as Paul Cézanne and Chaim Soutine. Lucian Freud obituary
However, subsequent independent surveys of actual ballots indicated a dramatic shift, with Mr Fujimori nearing a first-round victory.
The Friedman-Stricker article discusses a particular event in the liver that could trigger the hunger signal: a shift away from "oxidative metabolism" (the Krebs cycle for making energy out of anything) to direct production of glucose and ketone bodies (gluconeogenesis and ketogenesis - remember these from "diabetes is like starvation" above?). Sun Bloggers
They looked unsure and shifted uneasily from foot to foot.
(T) he policy shift by Wells Fargo follows others over the last two years, including moves by Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citibank, to increase scrutiny of lending to companies involved in mountaintop removal -- or to end the lending altogether. William S. Becker: Climate Action: Part 2 - Down to Business
Most cultures had legends of vampires or shape-shifters who preyed on the living.
Although the fitting of the saddle should as far as practicable be limited to the adjustment of the shape of the tree and to regulating the amount of stuffing in the panel; the use of a numdah with a saddle which does not fit the horse or which is not sufficiently stuffed, is often a valuable makeshift when necessity gives no other choice. The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed.
The 160 technicians put in eight-hour shifts and the employees - from the plant director down - eat hearty, nourishing meals from the same, heavily subsidized menu.
He has continued trying to change, shifting from dreamlike visions to clear landscapes, from oneiric symbols to poems about friends. The Times Literary Supplement
Benjamin's scrutiny of Matisse is thus complex, shifting, and polyvalent, while at times even seeming to work against his own claims.
You have the balloon effect for shifting coca production, what I call the cockroach effect for how the cartels jump from one region to the next, and then there's the whack-a-mole policy to try to deal with all of it," says Bruce Bagley, a political scientist at the University of Miami and an expert on the global drug trade. Cocaine: The New Front Lines
It is true that the dic - tionary meaning of the term symmetry has shifted since antiquity, but none of the original connotations has become obsolete, certainly not entirely so. SYMMETRY AND ASYMMETRY
The action of the novel shifts from Paris to London.
SHIFT (6) Afrophile adj. decorative aposelene projectual diplotene, aposelenium psychedelicize, adj. biotron v. dirty quadriphony quadriphonics dustoff reticulosis punch-up technopolis quantized, skim INITIAL AFFIXATIONS (20) adj. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 1
My heart would palpitate and sweat glands shift into overdrive.
Barracks, tents and makeshift shelters sprang like undergrowth from the soil. Times, Sunday Times
Seas shift their beds, rivers change their channels, continents grow old with the weight of years and hoary crowns bestud the islands, while ocean currents grind their rocky feet to dust and scatter their flinty ribs in the secret chambers of the deep. Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D.,
Her father glowered down at her a moment before shifting his hard stare to Robert.
The real problem with assessing popular sentiment over the 1790s is the interplay of contradictory forces shifting it between radicalism and loyalism.
Kurt Wilberding/The Wall Street Journal A black doublefaced melton cape paired with a matching plonge shift. Long, Lean and Monochrome at Michael Kors
Sometimes the shift between panels is as subtle as fog rolling through, so that one looks closely to identify the change.
I’m sure they still believe they’re the better team, so I don’t think we’ll see any big shift in intangibles in this game. Matthew Yglesias » Predictions
There also is a perceptible delay when downshifting from fourth to third.
Yes, but I don't want us to broach to and go over if the wind shifts.
Finally the gong sounded, signaling the end of Mihradi's shift.
After one or two weeks, when the shifting is over, I will be able to provide you with the necessary mantra and yantra for prapti siddhi.
Then attention shifted to a relentless focus on levels of government spending on public services.
Together with the associated protein troponin, TM on actin can switch between two laterally shifted conformations.
At first we seem to be in familiar terrain, both emotionally and geographically, since this story of a fractured marriage has been shifted from Oz to England.
‘They're really hard-working, these little Jerseys,’ says Edie, who takes her own share of barn shifts; at least two a week.
By contrast, there was a general shift from subsistence agriculture to the production of cash crops and the provision of services.
This shift was certainly leftward in one sense.
He suggested this could mean train drivers swabbing out carriages at the end of a shift. Times, Sunday Times
Each Special is allocated a beat or a shift either in the town centre or the rural areas.
To raise the capsule through the water, pumps shift about a cup of hydraulic oil from a reservoir in the cylinder to a small external bladder.
As the male voice completed its speech, she slowly shifted herself around to face a gentleman of medium height who had a smiling, benign countenance on his careworn features.
QED, such as a precise measurement of the Lamb shift of the 1S ground state, and accurate determinations of the rms charge radius of the proton and the structure radius of the deuteron. Theodor W. Hänsch - Autobiography
US studies have suggested that the shift of long-standing smokers to low tar filter cigarettes results in the smoker inhaling more deeply and retaining smoke longer.
The group's design manipulates the laser beam instead of using a translation stage to shift the sample, which allows the user to scan the sample layer by layer while still correlating the information spatially.
Except it looked to me like he was watching something, his own collapsing infrastructure perhaps, his expression shifting between blankness and surprise. Imperfect endings
As the film unfolds, Coppola subtly shifts the perspective to show the plate glass windows as barriers and Tokyo's apparent absurdities are gradually revealed as a positive and regenerative force.
Thirty percent of users have shifted to alternative modes of transportation: carpools, bicycles, and cars that run on liquefied petroleum gas, a low-polluting alternative to conventional gasoline and diesel.
They are referred to as go karts, go carts, go-karts, shifter karts, gokarts and many other differently spelled variations.
The shortage of rifles necessitated that the manual of arms be practiced in shifts, and six hours of daily drill in the melting snow turned the camp grounds into a bog.
Since gaining independence in 1964, the country has experienced a continuing shift toward urbanization which is reflected in its architecture.
There are hundreds of makeshift little studios all over the room. Times, Sunday Times
A drop-dead-gorgeous crowd was tangoing away in a makeshift, open-air amphitheater.
In concert with its European partners the British Government can use this meeting to shift its public stance on the question of ‘globalisation’.
Prompted by this discovery, researchers are developing biomaterials specifically for the regeneration and repair of tissue, shifting the emphasis from replacement of tissues to regeneration.
It is those senses of the situation which a certain Russian forecaster's reliance on adducing patterns among images depends, as a key to a shift in such effects as mass-psychology of the eerie qualities which Shelley attributes to the optimistic upsurge he references in his LaRouche's Latest
For those, like him, unswayed by such arguments, there are, though, signs of a forthcoming shift.
The weight still shifts to the heel for increased power during the lunge so in the moment of the lunge, the rear foot faces straight across the strip.
The father of three is now in a critical condition in a makeshift field clinic. Times, Sunday Times
He was carrying his hand bell by its clapper, and he shifted his grip to the handle and began clanging.
I basically discuss the way WebCT's role in my classes has shifted since I started podcasting and vodcasting my lectures and moved to open courseware. Archive 2006-04-01
When, in the middle of the the first season, callow account exec Pete Campbell walks past striving-to-be-a-copywriter secretary Peggy Olson's desk without acknowledging her, Peggy's incremental comprehension of her powerlessness with this guy she's had sex with is documented in her face's shift from anticipation to abashment to acceptance. Sheila Weller: Mad Hopes for the Mad Men Women

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