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    shuffle


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    1. The big man began to shuffle around the counter and squeeze through the small entrance into the reception area


    2. The members of the group turn and shuffle a little to let us into the circle


    3. Another shuffle forward and I felt the rim of the bucket against my thigh


    4. Aware at first of only my own shuffle and ache, I gradually began to distinguish other movements and routines within the close confines of these bare walls


    5. The angelic don't cough but they do shuffle their feet and that was about the only noise left in this parade ground


    6. "It was never executed, instead the fusion containment bricks were taken down and stacked, then all its mounting framework and hardware, all four tons of it, was removed and stored away in a shuffle of paperwork under the heading 'spare parts' in a warehouse in Gengee


    7. He managed to shuffle and drag himself upright, until, bowed and spindle thin, he finally stood free of the wall


    8. by the creak of the loom and the shuffle of socks


    9. are shod in heavy woollen socks that shuffle


    10. reduced to a faint shuffle of occasional feet; Christmas trees, once the center of

    11. Load after load was pulled, separated, and trucked on to the Village that day, where several more hands there would shuffle the boxes, etc


    12. Somehow his helmet was lost in the shuffle, leaving the flesh of his face and neck fully exposed


    13. relevant chapters, or shuffle around the chapters themselves to make it


    14. But there are certain elements you will need to shuffle around


    15. So, what now? You, uh…said something about…food?” He could barely shuffle his feet in time to muffle the grumbling growls of his hollow stomach


    16. And he stared out at the sea, watching the dark waves shuffle under a shaded and faltering sun


    17. Holding on as tightly as he could, he began to shuffle his feet higher up the cliff face, making full use of the available footholds


    18. He tried to shuffle backwards but, as he edged away, he felt a searing pain in his back


    19. He would shuffle over to the trashcan container full of dry food, scooping out a feed bucket full and walking around to the different dog dishes, dispensing it evenly, while I would open a can of wet dog food and spoon-feed it to the prancing, salivating, weird-noise-making, heathen dogs


    20. shuffle of a tethered horse

    21. He returned enraged that the announced shuffle of public figures included Gordon’s recommendation of the current director of the OIJ for his position, and Captain Flores’ elevation to the nation’s top police officer


    22. We both laughed and started heading towards our fellow NSR’s that were breakin’ on the shuffle board courts


    23. They put their hands up by their faces to protect themselves, as Four taught us, and shuffle in a circle around each other


    24. I shuffle toward the room where I was interrogated


    25. I start to shuffle backward, with David whimpering in front of me, still under the influence of the serum cocktail


    26. He was ordered to shuffle quick time back to his hut and as he


    27. I was hired as a GS-13/14, and my predecessor’s job was classified GS-14, so I had been promised that all I had to do was render one year’s satisfactory time in grade, and I would be promoted without any big paper shuffle


    28. attention to what they want to know whilst they shuffle the cards I believe


    29. In the shuffle, the paper dropped its daily stock listings and the weekly roundup of district and superior court news


    30. Psychology, I found extremely interesting, although the professor sometimes lost me in the shuffle of terms and philosophies

    31. lost in the shuffle


    32. thought he saw one of the KDM members shuffle slightly


    33. brew as I watched him shuffle down the road with his shabby sandals


    34. "Amanda what are you doing here?" Kate tried to shuffle her chair towards her


    35. There was a shuffle as the officer asked Devon for his permit papers, which he had


    36. “And whilst it’s true he is as wicked a villain ever to shuffle across the face of the earth, this seems beyond the scope of his usual ambitions


    37. Kaite blows kissy faces at him trying to draw him closer to the bunch before navy suited guards shuffle him away back into the general population


    38. “Well, I guess it’s time for me to prepare to meet my maker,” you heave a resolved sigh, not really believing in such nonsense, and then shake hands and bid a fond farewell to the closest thing you’ve ever had to a… What was that word?… Friend? Then shuffle away down the block in the direction of the


    39. As each aspirant was called through the door at the end of the hall, the remaining people had to shuffle down 1 chair


    40. Nursing staff wheeled in those who couldn’t walk or shuffle, and an awkward scattering of visitors hovered

    41. The two men returned to the table and started to shuffle papers, making it clear that they had finished with him and needed to get on


    42. Outside, the rhythmical clank of harness and shuffle of horses' hoofs welled up through the gold-barred casements


    43. write the titles on a card and shuffle them around


    44. "Conan! Conan! She's come back!" The shriek ended in a gurgle and a scraping shuffle


    45. Now in utter blackness he heard a sound ahead of him—the shuffle of bare feet, or the swish of loose garments against stone, he could not tell which


    46. When the funding allows, shuffle off to a different state or country as a means of engaging children in valuable cultural exchanges that open their eyes to the world’s true diversity


    47. “Maybe she called and it got lost in the shuffle around here," Jason explained


    48. ” Everyone began to shuffle out the door


    49. behind his desk on the platform to shuffle with some


    50. Siri followed his attacker closely enough to make it impossible for him to turn without exposing his back, and the Dravid had to continue to shuffle backwards














































    1. Ackers shuffled over to the computer on his desk and powered it down also


    2. By edging my way along the mattress I could position myself opposite where I thought the bucket should be and then I shuffled forward onto the rough concrete floor


    3. Once again they shuffled in their seats, but did not say anything


    4. Over the next two weeks we shuffled and slept and dreamed as usual


    5. I shuffled backwards on my arse, scrabbling to put distance between myself and the door, which slammed open just as I had imagined it would


    6. Once he had it in his arms again, he shuffled off without a word and don't think I ever saw him again


    7. With an elaborate display of inconvenience, tutting and huffing and blowing, his mates shuffled about making a song and dance about trying to make a space for him to sit amongst them


    8. When all was finally revealed, The Seraph, as they were called, were a three-piece from the Midlands with a rare talent for creating haunting melodies and harmonies, melodies that played on in Helen’s head every minute of every day until the very second that she finally shuffled off her mortal chains


    9. His hands trembled as he shuffled through the cricket


    10. shuffled off her mortal chains

    11. warm himself, and reluctantly shuffled after the


    12. ” The grocer nodded in agreement, muttered something about 'probably should make sure,' put his keys in his vest pocket and shuffled quickly toward his own home not far away


    13. Salamander shuffled in his chair


    14. I shuffled the cards,


    15. Arriving trains were noted, Departures updated, and platforms shuffled


    16. Jean shuffled hesitantly towards the proffered seat, unsure


    17. feet shuffled along the kitchen floor


    18. Reynard pleasantly as he shuffled by on his way to his desk


    19. He shuffled his feet


    20. and shuffled towards Roman, grinning out of one side of his mouth

    21. “That’s it, one hand,” Pick said smiling as he shuffled


    22. The boys, Kit and Jason, standing between them and the refrigerator were the first ones that shuffled, giving clear passage to their Father


    23. shuffled through the money, counting it as fast as he could flip it, and gave the


    24. shuffled awkwardly towards the door and took his leave


    25. " Was all she managed, before he shuffled her back into the truck, slamming the door


    26. When the last of the partygoers, had been shuffled out the door, and the band packed up, she sighed her first free breath, not that being attached, to Jim's arm was very terrible


    27. shuffled through the contents, handing Max his new life


    28. By this time they had shuffled their way up the aisle and got to Knume


    29. " he responded with a salute, as he shuffled up the steps


    30. Jean shuffled his feet uncomfortably, but

    31. The hooded congregation shuffled to do his bidding, the noise and blood and the violent butchery having subdued any feelings of retaliation


    32. The girls shuffled into a ragged row and the chief walked down it


    33. asked, he reluctantly shuffled off to fetch the Abbot


    34. hair, and they shuffled their feet as if lacking the strength


    35. Hesper took the milk and shuffled off


    36. His hooves shuffled in the muck with agitation


    37. Though scraped and pierced with splinters, she regained her balance, went inside, and shuffled to the post, murmuring softly to the baby all the while


    38. He shuffled restlessly


    39. She still didn’t look up, but slowly closed the book and shuffled a stack of cards before neatly putting them into a case


    40. Staring up at the concrete statue face of Jupiter surrounded by his Oracles in the fountain, she shuffled her feet, unable to keep still

    41. Still gently holding the device level, they shuffled slowly across the floor towards the intercom panel beside the door


    42. But every time she shuffled through her papers,


    43. The queue shuffled forward


    44. shuffled up to the wall opposite the door, next to the window


    45. As she shuffled her way clumsily to the ring, Raven felt a twinge of pity


    46. Now Carter’s bloody figure shuffled and limped around the ring and her resolve had failed her


    47. Raven shuffled closer to her on the sofa and put his arm around her shoulders


    48. I winked at him to show that it couldn’t be helped obviously he had been ordered to do this as the squad shuffled in front of me I spat out the cigarette as they halted and turned


    49. She shuffled closer to him and put her arm around his waist


    50. We took the ride up to the 16th floor and immediately shuffled into Captain Edward Conners’ office where the Captain along with Tonnelli and two Lieutenants sat














































    1. where a clock shuffles the day down


    2. he shuffles off, kicking at traces of dew


    3. as she shuffles over stones and yellow


    4. Exhaustion and great hunger forced them to dis-regard the lingering dangers evident in the scampering shadows and shuffles in the gloom


    5. Then Drew shuffles into the dining hall


    6. We get out, and Zeke seizes his mother’s hand to steady her as she shuffles through the snow


    7. What am I doing here? What is happening to me? A heavy timber door creaks open, and a black-robed figure shuffles into the room


    8. shuffles the cards so that they mix well


    9. At the same time, the old man shuffles his feet on the flooring


    10. Teacher shuffles the deck of cards and stores them in a box on his/her desk

    11. Nothing - the sigh of the wind outside and the grunts and shuffles of the man, the


    12. Michael staggers back up to our row and shuffles through the legs again, then drops into his seat and stares ahead, face blank


    13. ” She shuffles backward into her room and holds her hand over the panel to close the door, but doesn’t tap it


    14. “So the UK shuffles off one of its longest standing and most intractable problems on us, does it?” asked Greg Harvey


    15. Fortunes are told when the client shuffles the Tarot deck, then hands the cards to John


    16. She shuffles close to him, and then wraps her arm through his


    17. Marlie has just popped the toast, when Frank shuffles into the kitchen, still wearing his dingy gray robe and slippers


    18. Andrews shuffles forward, my heel hits a lip on the walkway


    19. Movement shuffles in the webbing above her


    20. Willie shuffles towards the

    21. Odd creaks and shuffles of movement behind did


    22. "I don't know," Dana angrily says as she looks down and shuffles through the papers


    23. He shuffles on


    24. All you could hear were quiet shuffles and whispers


    25. The song ends and the iPod shuffles to Damien Rice being mournful


    26. Devon shuffles after, still awkwardly carrying most of his possessions


    27. "No, no," objected the elder one, moving with little shuffles of his bare feet toward Sim


    28. Jerry, a Cockney, was saying, "Yes, yer can always tell big 'uns—they shuffles," and went on to demonstrate with Shsh-shsh-shsh, when someone said "Listen!"


    29. The American manager dare not fly in the face of the wedding ring, and that is why he shuffles about rather uneasily in Paris


    1. A mirror image of the shuffling footsteps in the morning


    2. running, shuffling and hailing for the missing nine year


    3. They jogged on, their speed had fallen to a shuffling jog, none of them felt brisk by this time


    4. Then my flight was called and I was like a schoolboy on an outing and couldn't wait to join the shuffling queue and be herded onto the compact turbo-prop of nineteen seats


    5. Behind the desperate couple, the house lights went up, but they were so engrossed in their respective miseries that neither of them noticed a shabby little old man shuffling down one of the aisles and taking a front row seat


    6. Spitting venom into the face of kindness, shuffling away, unable to take his eyes off the porthole window to the main mortuary room, Billy had lashed out one more time and spurned this small moment of human kindness


    7. setting down his pen and shuffling the stack of paper in front of him


    8. In her thoughts she throws open the patio doors at her father’s house and takes a slow step around his garden, shuffling past flower pots full of cigarette butts, one more casualty on the mend, a dressing-gowned remnant of the whistling generation


    9. poor woman was shuffling about behind him with a look of


    10. Every now and then he could hear a brief shuffling

    11. Humbly, she knocked at his office and when he finally responded, she stepped in to find him shuffling papers about his desk


    12. His shoulders slumped as he moved on, shuffling forward


    13. She was shuffling between the tables, setting plates on one, then taking those same plates and setting them on a different table


    14. When we were finished shuffling items around, I motioned for Joss to take the back seat with Marley so Vanessa could sit up front with me


    15. Besides the increasing level of the water, the only other noise was the crunching of their feet hitting the ground and the shuffling of loose pebbles


    16. He sat in the nearest one, shuffling it closer to her desk as he dropped into it, “Yes


    17. pavement there was packed with shuffling


    18. Pamela had just nodded and continued shuffling the


    19. Frankenstein"s shuffling, inarticulate monster had a very high forehead indeed


    20. He had been in a foul mood all day at work, shuffling around the office scowling, absorbed in his own thoughts

    21. They heard some shuffling in the back room and then an enormous Crash! Forgo and Dorro bolted in the direction of the noise and burst into the rear office


    22. They heard shuffling from within


    23. Soon a reluctant shuffling of footsteps grew audible


    24. A slower shuffling came from the stairs and in a moment Lord Weston entered the room, accompanied by Leland


    25. As he lay in the undergrowth Brock's mind swirled wildly with the memories of what had happened to him over the past few moons– the pain in his back, forcing him to limp along with a shuffling gait; the growth on his head, now weeping a foul smelling pus; the voice constantly pursuing him into the furthest recesses of his mind


    26. The crowd was now shuffling into neat lines


    27. Luckily for him, she had other things on her mind, busily shuffling between Florida and New Mexico, with brief stops at La Hacienda to enter cash into the books, buy from Enrique and deliver sealed condoms to Alfredo


    28. Then, a thinly veiled reference to his shuffling of data to keep hidden the propriety of certain loans won his complete, undivided attention and an overwhelming degree of cooperation which sufficed to wipe clean the trail of the checks and ignore any interest on the loan


    29. And all I could hear was shuffling summer flip-flops across the Memphis soggy riverside ground, interminably coming closer and closer


    30. Meanwhile, behind the barrels, the shuffling continued, and Edgar sat motionless, afraid of movement, however slight

    31. She stood to leave, and he coughed a little self-consciously, neck warm, and looking downcast at his shuffling feet


    32. “Unto God’s own image,” he said then half to himself while he pointed to the shuffling silhouettes of the nuns


    33. A mosaic of low life, shuffling in and out


    34. The manager was already shuffling through the guestbook when he asked somewhat confused:


    35. He stood there for a moment or so with real, keen interest as its small congregation poured outside, shuffling their feet with purpose: it would be curfew time soon


    36. He could hear the gasps and the instinctive shuffling of feet from the still groggy crowd


    37. As I was shuffling my way out of the snack shop I spotted the manager speed walking to the men’s bathroom


    38. The width of Man’s shuffling gait and outstretched arms, as he vainly seeks out his true destination, testifies to the uncertainty he feels in his search for that unseen thing that seems designed to trip him or divert him from that path toward a truth that would grant him a vision that he does not naturally possess, and rarely understands the nature of


    39. I hear shouts and conversations, laughter and shuffling footsteps


    40. I hear their shuffling footsteps behind me and step onto the ledge

    41. I feel nervous about her being here, poking through my meager possessions, shuffling down my hallways, but we can’t stay distant forever


    42. the shuffling squeaks of his shoes


    43. The shuffling noise started up again, closer than ever now


    44. That was when she heard the shuffling sound again


    45. With a daze of thoughts shuffling through his mind, he


    46. A shuffling of feet could be heard from a room above, echoing


    47. was for real,” he mumbled, shuffling despondently out of the room, with each step,


    48. And, then, I hear a shuffling movement behind me


    49. He stared down at shuffling feet


    50. Once again he found himself in Heathrow, shuffling forward in the seemingly












































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    Synonyms for "shuffle"

    shamble shambling shuffle shuffling make mix ruffle scuffle walk shovel scuff change

    "shuffle" definitions

    the act of mixing cards haphazardly


    walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet


    walk by dragging one's feet


    move about, move back and forth


    mix so as to make a random order or arrangement