Sentence examples for were shunted into from inspiring English sources

The survivors were shunted into detention camps.

Before it began, fans were shunted into a tunnel and ambushed by club-wielding policemen.

It's also trying to reabsorb all those millions of workers that were shunted into unemployment during the recession.

Reporters covering the meeting were not allowed into the sanctuary but were shunted into the assembly hall, where they watched the proceedings on two screens.

(It was the Don and Roger Show, largely: Betty got a look-in, but Pete, Peggy and Joan were shunted into the wings).

Before his phone went dead, Mr. Karim added: "I managed to turn away and I ran into the hotel kitchen and then we were shunted into a restaurant in the basement.

I was being shunted into the sidings.

Her father was shunted into a backroom job.

The poor are shunted into banlieues in the outer suburbs or sent north.

Some ministers, though not all, are fighting to prevent HS2 being shunted into a siding.

"There is a tremendous symbolic devaluing in being shunted into this relatively meaningless space".