Sentence examples for shifting about from inspiring English sources

I braked immediately, but lost balance as she was shifting about so much on the back.

The nervous people who kept shifting about in "Shift," a new work, were clearly grappling with problems of change.

The mayor is shifting about $5 billion from Quadrangle into a new investment firm devoted solely to his interest and that of his charitable foundation.

When it was revived at Sadler's Wells in 2009, with De Keersmaeker herself in the ensemble, the dancers' flinching in their seats on stage was mirrored by plenty of audience members, restlessly shifting about in their rows.

In this crazy corner of Brooklyn, bleary-eyed men and women with faces worn from hustling a buck — or more — stand outside all-night delis, their eyes shifting about as quickly as their feet.

One Direction's Midnight Memories was the biggest-selling album of the year, shifting about 700,000 copies, the first time in almost three decades there has not been a million-selling album artist.

I shift about restlessly.

But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil.

Works go up, are shifted about and later removed from view, making way for others.

So you shift about, trying to find an optimum position of comfort.

A road was shifted about 80 feet vertically and to the west.