Sentence examples for words shift from inspiring English sources

Now, words shift in complicated ways.

Rather, the meaning of such words shift, depending on whether the person being described is male or female, white or African-American, or belongs to another group that is often stereotyped.

Throughout these kinetically textured lyric poems -- they have varied indentations and line lengths, and are aurally rich with slant rhymes and musical rhythms -- the meanings of words shift, contort and refract (one point of creating art, as Fulton puts it, is "to / origami thought").

It works passably on little devices like Pocket PCs, because the words shift to fill the tiny screens.

You question everybody who might have a lead and you keep on asking until you get answers". In other words, shift to police-style investigations.

In other words, shift from a "past savings" system, to a "future savings" system.

His words shifted from warp speed to no speed.

They discovered that some words shifted in sound in a regular fashion from one language to another.

At the bottom end of the range, in other words, shifting to clean energy would increase economic growth, whereas at the top it would shrink it.

In other words, shifting Palestinians to another state without their consent, a demand backed in its wholesale form by rightwing nationalists.

After a long period of cautious equivocation, the prime minister had, in his own words, "shifted up a gear" in his ambition to lodge Britain at its rightful place in the heart of Europe.