Sentence examples for shifting sideways from inspiring English sources

The action, which begins in 1988 and ends in 2002, moves to a soundtrack of Elbow and the Stone Roses and the Charlatans, with the set lifting, sliding, shifting sideways as if one scene were melting into another on a screen.

Now, in politics, there merit to fighting a losing battle -- if you can enforce a strict definition of the territory you want to occupy, that's a reference point for voters if things fail to work out and they start shifting sideways.

Then she was shifted sideways to the Cabinet Office.

Each story is shifted sideways by each day that unfolds.

His eyes shifted sideways, as if he were embarrassed.

He shifted sideways on his chair to allow his long legs more space.

"He shifts sideways on the bed and he can tell right away.

A blue Oriental rug shifts sideways as he turns left at the end of the hall.

He shifted sideways into street food, and for two years ran a mobile fish cart on the beach.

From there, Smith was shifted sideways into the Cabinet Office, taking on responsibility for electoral issues within her brief.

Flynn, for all his proletarian aggression, is one poetic pugilist: "Like a Balinese dancer," he says at one point, "my neck shifts sideways".