shifting

[ UK /ʃˈɪftɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈʃɪftɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. (of soil) unstable
    unfirm earth
    shifting sands
  2. changing position or direction
    shifty winds
    he drifted into the shifting crowd
    their nervous shifting glances
  3. continuously varying
    taffeta with shifting colors
NOUN
  1. the act of moving from one place to another
    his constant shifting disrupted the class
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How To Use shifting In A Sentence

  • His self-image is rooted in robotic toughness, like the shape-shifting, molten-metal fiend in Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
  • 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.
  • She speculated that the shifting social status of women during the war years stoked male anxiety about female bonding and independence from men.
  • I felt that weird shifting movement and a feathery light object grazed my bare skin.
  • The partisans fought a revolutionary war in a constantly shifting pattern, and their leadership did so with a political aim.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The action of a mutual fund or portfolio manager shifting investment assets from one sector of the economy to another.
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