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    shifting


    1. He was hunched over his desk, shifting through piles of paperwork and tossing it around with abandon, creating a bigger mess than he had before


    2. “You must have dropped it while the gravity was shifting back to normal,” Johnny commented, putting the Chip back in his pocket


    3. edges of the thick cell walls and dissolved the shifting shapes of the man that he had


    4. I cried again for the umpteenth time since my capture and incarceration below the wider world’s ever- shifting horizons


    5. shifting their position, a killing ground,


    6. I floated in the comfort of this smooth, luminous primeval liquid, looking at the patterns and the shifting net of sunlight underneath, and the sand way down below, ecstatic in the thrill of being aware of simple existence in a universe without change


    7. ‘If you could, Graham, Sarah’s got a load of books and they’ll take some shifting


    8. ‘Yes … I thought you were shifting the books this afternoon


    9. fidgeting and shifting awkwardly in his seat


    10. “Tell me,” Samuel began, shifting the subject, “what do you suppose

    11. While Billy sits quiet and still amid the heavy metal sounds of the custody suite, his companions reach out and take his hands in theirs and the three of them begin to mime and mug like savant idiots, and with the sound turned down, with the picture fading to a single white dot, they start to belt out Billy’s favourite song without shifting a single molecule of air:


    12. “That’s what I thought,” Bobby said, shifting his glance from me to


    13. Again some shifting of wardrobe and jewelry was made between Samuel and himself


    14. shifting on the cushions beneath him uneasily


    15. The deafening screech of new caterpillar treads and the smell of diesel tainted eucalyptus smoke in the rising heat mixed with red dust and shifting sand, gave the site a post apocalyptic appearance


    16. They left the airbase with tyre tracks as the only evidence of their activities, evidence soon to be erased by the shifting sands


    17. the broken body armor as well as he could with his cuffed hands, shifting his


    18. "Yes," Brice replied, his eyes shifting to the floor


    19. before shifting the topic of the conversation


    20. Walking closer to the gateway, the trio noted several slits in the stones above, behind which shadows could be seen shifting about

    21. "At this time it would not help you to know, but rest assured that your days of hiding are over," the elf said, shifting his white gaze to the Death Guards


    22. soldiers shifting


    23. No sooner had Alec noticed the shifting forest than an arrow arced into the sky


    24. Mage-fire detonated in the sky as the Graelic struck home, its reddened tip catching the demon directly on the ever shifting appendage that most closely resembled a head


    25. The Red Mage spent his life clinging to the illusion, always shifting shadows


    26. “What’s out there, Anon?” Adros asked, shifting his gaze to the Rift


    27. “What do I call you, sir?” she asked as the weedy man groped her body with his shifting


    28. The genie itself may be nothing more than a play of Such veils, and hence might we simply make do with Inanimate bottles and slow shifting star constellations?


    29. shifting in this modern society and it sent in old hats like me a


    30. I briefly wondered where Griffin had learned about shifting

    31. the pieces and they keep shifting around


    32. She crossed her arms, shifting her glance thoughtfully


    33. It is partly owing to the easy transportation of gold and silver, from the places where they abound to those where they are wanted, that the price of those metals does not fluctuate continually, like that of the greater part of other commodities, which are hindered by their bulk from shifting their situation, when the market happens to be either over or under-stocked with them


    34. But she determined that that was all it would be, a temporary shifting of the journey


    35. By shifting your attention to happiness and letting go of self-centered desires, you change what you care about, and thereby change your world


    36. Perhaps by shifting attention, we shut off that part of the brain and mind that is in charge of making us worry


    37. The ground was ever shifting underneath their once poised and planted feet


    38. But the shifting winds nevertheless had carried with them an evolving reality


    39. ‘Energy is wonderful,’ stated the bird shifting slightly on her golden claws


    40. The continents were constantly shifting

    41. shifting of the winds and rolling waves, the next hour would find him with his arms hanging listlessly at his sides, fists clenching with the intermittent surges of emotion


    42. It had constantly shifting gold continents surrounded by a misty swirling ocean of blue


    43. The Planetary Ascension has also seen the shifting of the magnetic fields in our environment


    44. —Food will be served in the school cafeteria, with the meals sort-of shifting from brunch-type food to


    45. But now her colleague’s image was shifting about in a distorted way as if from some kind of interference, and his voice similarly until she could no longer understand a word


    46. As he sat on the lean-back chair he still didn’t look entirely comfortable, shifting about and distracted by his surroundings


    47. This did not seem to encourage the witness at all: he kept shifting from one foot to the other, looking uneasily at the Queen, and in his confusion he bit a large piece out of his teacup instead of the bread-and-butter


    48. The younger stars even showed signs of shifting their output spectrum to the bluer end


    49. Its humanoid form appeared out of focus, shifting, unable to resolve into a fixed shape


    50. Russell cleared his throat and had Aspen jumping and blushing before guilty shifting back














































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    Synonyms for "shifting"

    shift shifting unfirm shifty

    "shifting" definitions

    the act of moving from one place to another


    continuously varying


    changing position or direction


    (of soil) unstable