Example Sentences

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These days, art emphasizing subject matter often shunts form to the side, as if the visual analysis that form demands is irrelevant.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025

Rather than ushering the victim to the next life, this shunts him further into obscurity and ignominy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 2, 2025

This shunts air molecules to the Jacobson’s organ.

From National Geographic • Jan. 2, 2024

Channel 7, which normally shunts sports on to a secondary channel at 6pm to make way for its flagship news show, delayed its bulletin in order to show the game in an unprecedented move.

From BBC • Aug. 12, 2023

Gronau ran to Rice, who stood in the engine pit monitoring pressures and the play of shafts and shunts.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson