Sentence examples for shrug from inspiring English sources

"This is what they've told me," he says with a defensive shrug.

She hopes people will see the character's point of view; it was a difficult role to shrug off, and she feels protective of her, as actors often do with the characters they have created.

High-heeled white ankle boots, or a snowy fur shrug.

A tall young man in his subdued office seemed to shrug off the contrast.

"It is only natural after a run like this that we start to wonder how far away a correction is, but for now stock markets are continuing to shrug off any weakness and slides are proving to be short-lived.

Any goal scored at a corner, for instance, is more or less bound to feature a bit of pushing and shoving in the box for the officials to look at, and – here's the thing – once the officials are looking at it on a replay they can no longer simply shrug and say it was not enough to catch their attention, they will have to come up with a decision.

The crowds are just put down to gallery greed and accepted with a kind of weary "we're all in this together" shrug.

Some greeted the publication of the batch of letters with a shrug – and even a yawn, suggesting that they were tedious.

If the breakup is minor, stop reading now – you should be resilient enough to shrug it off.

Labour hopes that by choosing Chris Ostrowski – a 28-year-old John Lewis employee with ties to Norwich from his university days – it can shrug off the controversy over the treatment of Gibson, who had a 5,459 majority, and hold the seat.

He does ever so well and tries to shrug it off, let his football do the talking, but he needed this game to realise that, if he is going to get it out of his system, he's going to have to work harder still and get a thicker skin than he has at the moment".