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View definitions for shifting

shifting

adjective as in fluid

adjective as in ranging

adjective as in standardizing

adjective as in vacillating

adjective as in varying

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Example Sentences

The Babadook is the shape of grief: all-enveloping, shape-shifting, black, here intensely, terrifying, then gone.

In the past, Santos has been stubbornly opposed to a bilateral ceasefire, but his position on the issue may be shifting.

The lack of legal clarity is only one piece of an already frenzied and shifting operating environment.

The political impact of shifting demographics is a hot topic.

The sudden shifting of light and shadow in Palmer's life was never more apparent than on the morning of the last game of 1982.

Thus all about us is the moving and shifting spectacle of riches and poverty, side by side, inextricable.

Only at moments was he aware of this—a kind of higher Self, detached from shifting moods, looked on calmly and took note.

When the sailors are employed in shifting the sails, great care must be taken to avoid injury by the falling of any of the ropes.

Then dawn flung itself impetuously across the hills, and the naked rim of the canyon took form in a shifting whirl of smoke.

I eventually came to one of the largest, where by considerable shifting they managed to accommodate my car.

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On this page you'll find 1241 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to shifting, such as: alive, effective, operating, flowing, functioning, and going.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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