How To Use Shrug off In A Sentence

  • Fortunately, all our ironware is vintage Le Cousances, with metal handles, and these pots shrug off such minor problems. Lahey No-Knead Bread recipe: one baker’s experiences so far | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit"
  • She wanted to shrug off his firm, proprietorial grasp but managed to resist.
  • Meanwhile, the indestructible burial mound would shrug off the tempest like a great, ageless whale.
  • To denounce or shrug off a call for co-operation is an easy and cowardly thing. Times, Sunday Times
  • I hope I can shrug off this cold before I go on holiday.
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  • The arcaded splendour of the Piazza del Duomo seemed to effortlessly shrug off the scaffolding in place when we visited - testament to the awesome power of the place.
  • Meanwhile, the indestructible burial mound would shrug off the tempest like a great, ageless whale.
  • Yet constitutional monarchists would be foolish to shrug off the event.
  • Americans will no longer be able to shrug off European concepts.
  • I quit cold turkey some 25 years ago, but the specialists simply shrug off this kind of information.
  • Note that this bike is plenty tough, too; the frame, with its beefy head-tube gussets, should shrug off impacts from between-class curb hops.
  • To denounce or shrug off a call for co-operation is an easy and cowardly thing. Times, Sunday Times
  • But most companies will be able to shrug off the credIt'squeeze.
  • The city is trying to shrug off its industrial image and promote itself as a tourist centre.
  • They decided to shrug off the middle-aged image for the Corolla and displayed the Corolla XRS.
  • The royals will try to shrug off their problems and put on a good show for Margaret.
  • The company recently reassured investors that it could shrug off any cuts to education spending in Britain. Times, Sunday Times
  • We need to shrug off this image that inventing is about eccentric people locked away in sheds. The Sun
  • You're a father and you can't simply shrug off your responsibility for your children.
  • The city is trying to shrug off its industrial image and promote itself as a tourist centre.
  • The computer maker is seeking to shrug off concerns that the recall last month of more than four million laptop batteries will hit demand for its products. Times, Sunday Times
  • Many of their early wildflowers and spring-blooming bulbs go dormant by Memorial Day, so they shrug off the dry summers.
  • The murder has shocked a community that in recent years has tried to shrug off a poor image of poverty and degeneration.
  • Wielding the billhook allows Heavy Billmen to hack, stab and chop if needed and being encased in anything from half to three quarter plate armour means they can shrug off considerable damage.
  • You're a father and you can't simply shrug off your responsibility for your children.
  • We need to shrug off this image that inventing is about eccentric people locked away in sheds. The Sun
  • This actress tried to shrug off these reporters.
  • They sure need them because it's devilish cold in winter on Thassos and the houses are structured accordingly, with small windows, vast fireplaces and slanting roofs to shrug off the snow.
  • But Flynn, like many others, still won't shrug off the 2012 prophecies.
  • It is easy to shrug off charity and goodwill as petty and self-serving, but consideration for others is not easy and will not always come naturally.
  • He was moody lately but somehow he just could not shrug off the black cloud that was hovering over him.
  • You can shrug off recent squabbles. The Sun
  • Garrison would finally shrug off his depressions, and put his energies back where they belonged, organizing the family business. GALILEE
  • These are not questions the old generations can shrug off lightly.
  • The urban middle - class may shrug off rising food prices, but the poor are being hit harder.
  • Shearer is confident that the Argentine can shrug off the media storm that has surrounded his protracted transfer to Old Trafford, having shown himself to be suitably thick-skinned last term.
  • She can shrug off her troubles and met smiling.
  • You don't just shrug off 30 years. Times, Sunday Times
  • And I can even shrug off the unjustifiable accuse the university education of the unemployment rate.
  • The city is trying to shrug off its industrial image and promote itself as a tourist centre.
  • It would be hypocritical unethical, in fact for the paymaster to shrug off responsibility.
  • The team have been able to shrug off their recent failures and perform well.
  • Note that this bike is plenty tough, too; the frame, with its beefy head-tube gussets, should shrug off impacts from between-class curb hops.
  • I admire the way she is able to shrug off unfair criticism.
  • I admire the way she is able to shrug off unfair criticism.
  • The computer maker is seeking to shrug off concerns that the recall last month of more than four million laptop batteries will hit demand for its products. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is wrong to shrug off this kind of disease.
  • Now he seems determined to shrug off such worries.
  • You don't just shrug off 30 years. Times, Sunday Times
  • Some young fashionistas shrug off such concerns, however.
  • I admire the way she is able to shrug off unfair criticism.
  • You tend to thrive on your own and shrug off most affection.
  • And I can even shrug off the unjustifiable accuse the university education of the unemployment rate.
  • We need to shrug off this image that inventing is about eccentric people locked away in sheds. The Sun
  • The city is trying to shrug off its industrial image and promote itself as a tourist centre.
  • I admire the way she is able to shrug off unfair criticism.
  • A conviction for corrupting judges on a grand scale would be more difficult to shrug off.
  • Rotherham is hoping to shrug off its unenviable title of the car crime capital of South Yorkshire with a new crackdown that aims to slash vehicle crime by a fifth.
  • The company recently reassured investors that it could shrug off any cuts to education spending in Britain. Times, Sunday Times
  • You're a father and you can't simply shrug off your responsibility for your children.
  • She can shrug off all her troubles.
  • At national level, Labour is striving to shrug off its past.
  • The city is trying to shrug off its industrial image and promote itself as a tourist centre.
  • Christmas is a licence to kick back, shrug off that British reserve and enjoy ourselves.
  • You should try to shrug off the effects of drugs.
  • It took me a long time to shrug off the effect of a drug.
  • PS - Women shrug off their propensity to vote for the "cuter" male candidate..the one with silky hair, beaming smile, taller, even the "Obambi cuddlesome effect". Zogby has McCain/Palin pulling ahead and men, not women, favoring Palin; and I offer a poll about that.
  • It takes me a long time in the morning to shrug off sleep.
  • Wielding the billhook allows Heavy Billmen to hack, stab and chop if needed and being encased in anything from half to three quarter plate armour means they can shrug off considerable damage.
  • You tend to thrive on your own and shrug off most affection.
  • The city is trying to shrug off its industrial image and promote itself as a tourist centre.
  • You can shrug off recent squabbles. The Sun
  • I quit cold turkey some 25 years ago, but the specialists simply shrug off this kind of information.
  • She can shrug off her troubles and keep smiling.
  • Gains by both groups after encouraging figures from the company saw the FTSE shrug off the drag caused by weaker bank, pharmaceutical and telecom stocks.
  • The team have been able to shrug off their recent failures and perform well.
  • I admire the way she is able to shrug off unfair criticism.
  • It is customary to shrug off new structures when the reality is that we are afraid to replace the plethora of ones that are not working sufficiently well.

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