shuffling
Example Sentences
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An AFP journalist captured rare footage at Al-Rahmaniyah camp showing exhausted women shuffling under a punishing sun, jerrycans swaying on their heads after hours spent waiting for water at a distant well.
From Barron's • Jun. 29, 2026
It's been more a shuffling of the pack and a slap on the wrist.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026
In early hip-hop and dance music, Mr. Gibbs heard echoes of the shuffling feet and handclaps of a ring shout, the communal spiritual ritual in which enslaved Africans used their own bodies as instruments.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
“Charizard and Pikachu, they’re kind of bubbly and kind of lighthearted,” he said while shuffling through Pokémon cards and other themed paraphernalia.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026
“You can do homework in your room,” protests Tariq, shuffling the Legos so they click and rattle.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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