How To Use Shimmy In A Sentence

When you're that kind of player, it must be so fun to play against no-marks who fall for every stepover, trick, flick and shimmy.
There were lots of thrusts and gyrations in the class, which makes sense, since they're burlesquers, but I just don't have the coordination, sadly, to shimmy and walk backward at the same time.
Hips will be shimmying and the smoke will be dense at the new restaurant when it opens in the next couple of weeks.
He'd shimmy up with a machete, hack them off and let them fall to the ground.
I believe that a rider's build affects the potential for shimmy to occur: how heavy is the rider relative to the bike?

As she passed him she brought her hands to her hips briefly and gave a quick shimmy. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
By the time flappers showed up in the '20s, opening and closing their knees and swinging their arms in the briefest of outfits, the can-can and the shimmy looked positively quaint.
The mechanic informs him that he cannot fix the shimmy.
What could be nicer than to shimmy into the Caramel Room, sink into a lovely armchair and match a cake to your purchase?
Jimmy Spencer is certainly the man in form and a shimmy past his marker and a chip just over the bar enthralled the crowd.
Sometimes, I have cured mild shimmy in a frame by changing out the fork, but many times, it has not worked.
With a shimmy and a shuffle, that was all he needed to go in for a try.
The shimmy was named dance of the year.
And as you suggest, a rider may eliminate shimmy by changing his position (fore / aft weight distribution) on the bike.
The taxi did a little shimmy sideways and the driver spun the wheel. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
The real me under this wig... I'm trying to encourage the shimmy shake this evening, but the Mater's not being very helpful. THE GOLDEN LION
She is so over-the-top that she's fun to watch: shimmying and shaking, flashing her teeth, and rolling her eyes.
She was slinky in a short black skirt with ridiculously high heels -- nosebleed heels -- and she moved across the stage in a kind of insouciant shimmy. Robert Rodi: Booty (Re)Call With Typhanie Monique
If I strap my 10-pound mechanic's bag to the top of the rear rack, then the shimmy is so bad that hands free riding at any speed is out of the question.
In Moles' homely upstairs cafe area there's a complementary side order of 1950s and 60s dancehall classics with a beady eye on the shimmy and shake favourites of Motown and doo-wop. Clubs picks of the week
She made a tiny, uncontrollable shimmy with her hips.
Shimmying them on feels more like stuffing pork sausage into casings than slipping into cozy leggings, which is perfectly fine, because once you've jammed your legs in, the effect is amazing. Meg Hemphill: Affordable, Slimming and Beloved by the Stars: Fashion Perfection
You run around climbing ladders, shimmying across ropes and running from one platform to another, collecting gems while avoiding the bad guys.
Even Auntie Alma got out of her wheelchair for a quick shimmy round the dancefloor.
A broad plug-ugly was trying to twist around, shaking and shimmying his forearm caught by her hands.
Greatly miniaturized robots made of hydrogel might someday shimmy across the surfaces of microchips, acting as tiny delivery carts or movable barriers.
In a stylish routine fueled by Queen, the Supremes and Lady Gaga, the members of the DeRosa Lab at Carleton University shimmy and shake their way through the the scientific process of finding a DNA aptamer to attach to the molecule homocysteine. DNA dance: Amazing science lesson of the day
It is not an indicator of instability; even though the bike is highly unstable when shimmying, it can be an extremely stable bike just a few miles per hour slower.
Their sound is a suave, swaying, elegant indie that you just can't help shimmying to.
It is an indescribably fast and furious combination of the slide, slop, funky chicken, mashed potato, camel walk, shimmy, applejack and quiver.
Her revue included vernacular forms like the shimmy, black bottom, shorty George and the cakewalk.
What can I do to minimize shimmy with the frame and fork that I have?
Ryder then jumped into the back seat, shimmying into the middle and buckling up the waist belt.
The real me under this wig... I'm trying to encourage the shimmy shake this evening, but the Mater's not being very helpful. THE GOLDEN LION
I just want to add my two-cent opinion to the subject of front-end shimmy.
It's the effortless glide of the catwalk; a confident, sexy sort of shimmy that only supermodels and drag queens seem to possess.
If I were you, I'd shimmy back up that tree before they figure it out. BREACH OF DUTY
She walked over to the queen-size bed, did a little shimmy dance as she took off her full-coverage bra, rubbed her breasts, her pudgy belly, stepped out of her panties, pulled back the down comforter, removed the scrunchy from her hair, ran her fingers through her thinning curls, sat on the edge of the bed, and watched her man sleep. Exquisite Torture
Plus, with its magical smoothness, it's unflappable in bumpy corners, carving where other bikes are bouncing and shimmying.
Since I reinstalled it, the boat has had a wicked shimmy.
It is an indescribably fast and furious combination of the slide, slop, funky chicken, mashed potato, camel walk, shimmy, applejack and quiver.
At the cash register, Roy cracked a package of pennies like an egg and let the coins shimmy into the bowl of the money drawer. Salem Falls
He had a bad crash while descending at 45 mph when he lost control due to front wheel shimmy.
He just sat there, with an expression crossbred between reverence and desire, whenever some big old gal got up to shake and shimmy. Goodnight, Irene
The 1920s, self-evidently, were the era of the bottle party and the Bright Young Things, the Charleston and the shimmy, cigarette holders and mock Tudor.
Ever get the urge to do the shimmy or the shake?
Even heard on your iPod, it should at least provide a few head-bops and maybe a shimmy or two.
The secrets of their success are tough leather wing cases, so they can shimmy into cracks under fridges, and a protective egg pouch, or ootheca. Times, Sunday Times
If you do not have the benefit of living in a country where you can just go and shimmy up a tree in the garden to pick a coconut, search carefully for a good one in the shops.
I laced my arm around Keith's waist and gave a little shimmy and a wink.
Greater fork trail gives the bike greater stability, but it does not necessarily reduce shimmy.
In the seventh round, Leonard did 3 minutes of taunting, offering his wide-eyed face as a stationary target, throwing a jab while windmilling his right arm, a hip shimmy here, an Ali shuffle there.
However, when I throw my rear panniers on and ride the bike at higher speeds, the bike will shimmy if I remove my hands from the bars.
And he was singing "Livin 'la Vida Loca" in Yiddish, shimmying around home plate. It's Jewish Night at Shea Stadium and I Am There
In the film, Salome does her sensual shimmy.
Wide.8 min: A brilliant bit of skill from Zaha, who totally bamboozles Park with a soft-shoe shimmy, gets kicked on the shin and wins Palace a free-kick wide on the left. Manchester United v Crystal Palace
Stripping and teasing, as well as dancing and prancing, began in the Jazz Age of the 1920s, when black performers became famous for doing the shimmy.
Betty's numbers were always the highlight of the show, whether she was rollerskating across the stage in her 80s! or shimmying up some set piece. Danny Miller: Remembering Betty Garrett
Jigging amongst a bevy of beautiful hackettes and not so gorgeous hacks, George was able to shimmy and twist so that his head was level with most other folk's ankles.
A frame that will not shimmy for a light rider often will shimmy under a heavier rider.
Jennifer Lopez tries shimmying back into her fans' hearts by teaching Richard Gere to rumba in this remake of the Japanese hit.
Now there is barely a hint of scuttle shake, and the odd shimmy and wobble you do still sense is no worse than in many saloons.
I think we all also felt sadness when Antoine announced this week that he would no longer be doing the shimmy.
Well I can't hully gully1, I can't do a shimmy, but when it comes to lovin ', I'm a lovin' little fool John Lee Hooker Lyrics
Some emo yet functional play from Chile, a direct contrast to the cheap & cheerful two-chord shimmy from the Honduran side. Pop World Cup 2010: Group H – Chile 1 Honduras 3 | FreakyTrigger
You run around climbing ladders, shimmying across ropes and running from one platform to another, collecting gems while avoiding the bad guys.
How the proton gets its spin out of the quark-gluon shimmy is still a big mystery, so theorists have been experimenting with difference ways to combine PDFs and form factors, to include interference terms, and understand all components of nulceon spin. Generalized PDFs Imply a Gravitomagnetic Moment!?!?!? « Imaginary Potential
When I ride the bike unloaded, I don't experience shimmy.
Whenever he drives too fast - whenever the needle on his speedometer goes above 40 - the car develops a dangerous shimmy.
Taxi back to the shop to have the damper serviced before flight anytime you experience a shimmy.
The oversized top tubes also helped reduce the possibly of the shimmy occurring.
* shimmy shimmy* anbudan_BALA I think I saw the news of Michael Jackson's demise late! Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
Brunet, with a rich, beautiful voice, is vocally more fiery and seductive than her all-purpose shimmy and coy smile suggest.
And then there were the female athletes — literally thousands of them — strutting, shimmying, sashaying and jogging around the village, clad in Lycra and exposing yard upon yard of shiny, toned, rippling and unimaginably exotic flesh. Sex and the Olympic City | Disinformation
Moreover, increasing the stiffness and damping of lower control arm rear bushing and the steering column inertia can effectively reduce the shimmy caused by brake judder.
Drinkers flocked to the bourbon-and-beer joint to witness the coyotes (as the bartenders call themselves) insult patrons who ordered "froufrou" drinks, perform fire-breathing tricks, and shimmy atop the bar.
Except for changing forks to get a longer rake, none of your other suggestions will help me eliminate the shimmy unless I get a new frame.
Rather like an old vaudeville hoofer, they must shimmy and shake with one eye one the audience and another on the white cane lurking in the wings.
How the proton gets its spin out of the quark-gluon shimmy is still a big mystery, so theorists have been experimenting with difference ways to combine PDFs and form factors, to include interference terms, and understand all components of nulceon spin. Generalized PDFs Imply a Gravitomagnetic Moment!?!?!? « Imaginary Potential
It consists of a wall of tiny dot-matrix screens, across which flow and shimmy fragments taken from internet chatrooms. Times, Sunday Times
Next thing you know you've started shimmying your hips, thrown out your back and landed on the floor, writhing in pain.
Now road cars don't like circuits; they tend to behave like hysterical drag queens shrieking and shimmying through simple manoeuvres.
Incidentally, you might recognise that rhetorical shimmy as a variation of syllepsis: a fairly easy word to avoid, it must be admitted, but as hair-raising for me to pronounce as Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
She did the shimmy all across her room, then she looked back to Greg.
If I were you, I'd shimmy back up that tree before they figure it out. BREACH OF DUTY
As soon as people travelling with small children are asked to come forward, there is a sly shimmy towards the door, which quickly turns into a total scrum as people are asked to proceed according to boarding-card number.
"If this was a shimmy competition you'd win first prize, but it's not," one of the judges said.
Moreover, increasing the stiffness and damping of lower control arm rear bushing and the steering column inertia can effectively reduce the shimmy caused by brake judder.
With every twist and shimmy, every duck of the shoulder and cleverly chipped pass, he is looking more like his old self.
In the next stage, robotic climbers would ascend the ribbon, epoxying additional carbon-nanotube ribbons to the mother line as the robots shimmy spaceward.
He escaped by shimmying down a window curtain from the second story.
Despite its milder focus, Adam is capable of a wide variety of actions, such as shimmying across ledges, jumping from ladders, crawling on his stomach, and so on. AdventureGamers.com
When Chris had offered to teach the kid to shimmy up the mast, he had replied with the simple words "I'm too clumsy".
I don’t see myself desperately grasping for fame and adulation while shimmying awkwardly in fishnet stockings. Britney and Me | Her Bad Mother
His pictures split and shimmy from one group of people to another, whether it's miners, dockers or shipbuilders.
This is accompanied by a quick cut to Patty Duke attempting to eat a hot dog while shimmying wildly at a 60′s TV sitcom version of a wild teenage dance party. Vic Mizzy: Pay tribute to the man behind the 'Addams Family' snaps | EW.com
We had to move our hips around and do a shimmy, so it took a while for us to actually get the hang of it.
"I suppose that is why you work with so many plays," said Charlotte, "showing everyone the proper way to do a shimmy or a waltz."
But first he must do his rounds, getting up in the freezing cold to feed his reindeer before loading up his sleigh and shimmying down chimneys to deliver presents.
Moreover, increasing the stiffness and damping of lower control arm rear bushing and the steering column inertia can effectively reduce the shimmy caused by brake judder.
You will catch your mother shimmying to it.
You are confusing shimmy with stability.
He looked away from the cop and continued to shimmy along the wall.
She is vocally more fiery and seductive than her all-purpose shimmy and coy smile suggest.
The exception is if you have a shimmy in your front end.
On March 22, the label will release the debut album, "Salt on a Sea Glass," by If By Yes, the new quartet featuring Ms. Honda, Los Angeles-based vocalist Petra Haden, drummer Yuka Araki and guitarist Hirotaka "Shimmy" Shimizu. Downtown Art Star Still Rising
She does a little shimmy and disappears.
After trouble teaching her the shimmy, he described his challenge to the camera: "Bristol is really shy, she's never performed in front of anybody and she's only in the public eye because of her mom."
As she passed him she brought her hands to her hips briefly and gave a quick shimmy. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
Now there is barely a hint of scuttle shake, and the odd shimmy and wobble you do still sense is no worse than in many saloons.
I knew how the steering wheel felt, always shimmying a little under your hands because there was no way you could keep the front end aligned.
As the rest rued their luck, he made a little champion's shimmy with his hips in front of the giant screen.
This village of mud huts and no electricity was where they would stay as long as the trees produced coconuts for five rupees apiece in the wholesale market and Suhash kept shimmying up those trunks. BENEATH THE SHADE OF COCONUT TREES • by Rumjhum Biswas
November 4, 2008 at 1:08 pm just gotta give a shimmy and it acts like chaff on radar *shimmy* see, I can disappear in the cloud. DEPRESSED ECONOMY - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
This year's Living Treasure in American Dance Award was presented to 92-year-old tap dancer Leonard Reed, inventor of the Shim Sham Shimmy, now a standard step for all tappers.
Her dance revue, Le Jazz Hot, included vernacular forms like the shimmy, black bottom, shorty george and the cakewalk.
Thanks to shows like this, it is becoming increasingly less intimidating to shimmy on down to that dance floor.
This technology senses for irregularity in wheel balance and the related steering wheel vibration - or "shimmy" - it can cause. Autoblog
Check out the big mares or stallions, shimmying huge flanks under bright-colored sweat blankets and responding temperamentally to the soothing clicks of a hot-walker. Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post
For the last minute, Clarence had been lying on his back, shimmying and kicking his legs, almost as if he was listening to James Brown and dancing, but upside down.
There is more to football than the stepover and the shimmy; there is also physical contact from time to time. Times, Sunday Times
The taxi did a little shimmy sideways and the driver spun the wheel. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
In less than two years she had won 84 cups in nightclub contests for dancing the Charleston, or by imitating Bee Jackson, the shimmy expert.
There are no Prohibition era shimmying jazz babes here.
Relaxing your arms through it helps to dampen it and pinch the top tube with your knees if it gets out of control, this stopped the shimmy completely in my case.
Adrienne was shimmying down the hallway, oblivious to the world around her.
He slid in quickly, and began to shimmy up using the sides for support.
Go forth and shimmy. Times, Sunday Times
With the shimmying dance hall regulars of A Duke for the 90s, Washington creates compelling, identifiable characters.
Five slithery dancers shimmy as a singer in a leopard-print tuxedo belts out an energetic version of Prince's "Cream."
Tasha pulled me into a tight circle and started shimmying.
Keshari spotted Misha still shimmying her hips to the music with her Sacramento Kings players on the transparent dance floor that covered the pool. Larger Than Lyfe
I watched him wordlessly shimmy up a tree, retie the knots, and resecure the tarps. Steve and Me
You couldn't shimmy up a drain pipe, could you?
She stopped and started shimmying to the music.
It's freezing almost all of the time in Emmerdale, so I can only imagine the lapdancing bar is full of women shimmying erotically in bobble hats and thermal salopettes. Grace Dent's World of lather
He beat the final defender with a delightful little shimmy before trotting round to touch down between the posts.
However, I did make a road bike, mountain bike and a tandem for this particular customer which did not shimmy.
She lifted one corner of the heavy gold curtains and peered out the window at the lights of cars blearing by, the bright signs of bars and restaurants shimmying up and down the street. My Dreams Out in the Street
Passing 120 knots, with an abort speed of 133 knots, I felt an increase in the nose wheel shimmy on my jet.
What also sets him apart is his insouciant, jazzlike phrasing - no coherent lines, everything with a wink or a shimmy or a comical expression. The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - washingtonpost.com
However, when I throw my rear panniers on and ride the bike at higher speeds, the bike will shimmy if I remove my hands from the bars.
he could feel the shimmy in the steering wheel

How To Use Shimmy In A Sentence

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