Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "shuffled"

Lexicographically close words:
shudders; shude; shue; shuffle; shuffleboard; shuffles; shuffling; shuh; shui; shuk
  1. John Saunders, loose limbed, grinning sheepishly, shuffled forward, and Clark shot a dozen questions at him one after another.

  2. Now and then a man was thrown out from there into the yard, and shuffled in again, shamefaced and grinning.

  3. Karl Johan as they passed, and Erik came out of his corner by the steps, and shuffled along after them.

  4. He shuffled to and from school at the regular times, probably without even knowing he did it.

  5. The sense of strain grew more pronounced, then Mr. Rayner shuffled uneasily and broke the silence.

  6. He drew himself up from his relaxed posture; his spurred feet shuffled heavily on the stone floor of the grotto.

  7. Tom's embarrassed feet shuffled heavily on the rocks, apparently in search of subterfuge.

  8. He grinned apologetically, and shuffled his feet.

  9. A black figure detached itself from the blacker shadows, and shuffled stealthily to where Jimmy stood on the doorstep.

  10. There was a laugh, and the crowd shuffled back to the card room.

  11. The sailor hesitated, shuffled and touching his cap, repeated his request, unnoticed.

  12. After the cards have been thoroughly examined and shuffled by the spectators the performer takes the pack (face downwards) and quietly bends them over his hand, the bend being so slight that it is hardly noticeable.

  13. After getting a glimpse of the card the pack can be again shuffled and the trick brought to a conclusion in any manner desired.

  14. Immediately Elkan tiptoed to the door and threw it wide open, after which he shuffled his feet with sufficient noise to account for the entrance of three people.

  15. He nodded savagely in farewell and shuffled off down the street, while Philip made his way toward the factory, with his half-formed excuse to his partner now entirely forgotten.

  16. He paused to formulate a sufficiently impressive "offer" as the lawyers say, and in the silence that followed Elkan shuffled to his feet.

  17. Gans shuffled his feet uneasily and Joseph Schwefel pulled down his waistcoat.

  18. Mr. Gooch shuffled restlessly in the middle of the room.

  19. He shuffled his feet, and looked at the floor.

  20. With his customary respectful good-night, he shut and locked the door, and shuffled on to his own quarters.

  21. So intense had been his concentration that they had shuffled away in the darkness unnoticed.

  22. Drawing his capote close around his face, he bent to the blast, and shuffled along.

  23. She pointed to a small table across the room, and he felt her eyes on his back as he shuffled over and sat down.

  24. Come in, Pat," said he, as the lad shuffled forward to greet him.

  25. As these gentlemen shuffled or swaggered through, they generally nodded, winked, grunted, or otherwise saluted the medical gentleman, and stared at his visitor.

  26. Behind the tent the fettered mules stamped on the rough, dry ground, and now and then the heavy rustling of a wild boar could be heard, as it shuffled through the scrub towards the water that lay in the hollow beyond the camp.

  27. A little way up the course of the burn the dead wood cracked and shuffled under the pressure of descending feet.

  28. He paused, and shuffled his feet; then, tucking the cat more firmly under his arm, left the room.

  29. She beamed upon him, and Mr. Jarvis, who was wont to face the glare of rivals without flinching, avoided her eye and shuffled with embarrassment.

  30. I tried to catch Peter Tortue's attention; I shuffled a foot upon the ground; but he paid no heed.

  31. I chose the game of picquet, and Clutterbuck shuffled and cut the cards; whereupon I dealt them.

  32. No one, indeed, was speaking at all, and no one so much as shuffled a foot.

  33. Yet if anyone shuffled a foot or allowed a petticoat to rustle, that person glanced on each side guiltily.

  34. The Prince shuffled and hesitated as though he was curious to hear particulars.

  35. He shuffled off in the direction of the stairs.

  36. He hoisted it on his back and shuffled away with it across the landing and out through the gate.

  37. The old man shuffled nervously on his bare feet.

  38. The mountaineer shuffled his feet in the mud and stood solemnly surveying the landscape.

  39. Big Abel shuffled into the cabin and came back with his corncob pipe and a lighted taper.

  40. It seemed an hour to her before at length those standing about the door shuffled apart to allow the two forensic enemies to reenter, though really it had not been above ten minutes.

  41. With downcast eyes they shuffled across the long floor, white with lime.

  42. He saw his father's money being spent for flour which when baked into loaves went out of the shop under the arms of the miners who shuffled as they walked.

  43. Each had been thinking of his own affairs and each man had shuffled off into his own street and had been lost in the dim alleyways between the tall grimy buildings.

  44. He shuffled to one side, those who were close at hand doing the same, until a sufficiently wide gap was left in the circle.

  45. Then gently drawing a revolver from beneath his waistcloth, he shuffled a few inches to the left until he could get a partial view of the doorway, at which he at once presented his weapon.

  46. Bill Berry shuffled up, looking sharply at first one and then another.

  47. In answer to her hail an old man shuffled around the corner of the house.

  48. That'll do for you," muttered Bill, as he shuffled away.

  49. Not long after Pete had been left in charge of the cycles a man, wearing a slouch hat, who had been but a few minutes before in close consultation with Jack Pender, shuffled up to where Pete was lying in the grass.

  50. The boys by the fire got up and shuffled away to their blankets.

  51. When he had passed she stood a moment gazing after him, then shuffled silently away to the back of the house.

  52. The oxen at an incredible pace shuffled and clappered along, the waggon spite of its heavy load bounding and swaying at their heels.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shuffled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    amiss; awry; bothered; chaotic; cockeyed; confused; deranged; disarranged; discomfited; discomposed; disconcerted; dislocated; disordered; disorderly; disorganized; disturbed; embarrassed; flustered; haywire; jumbled; misplaced; perplexed; perturbed; roily; shaken; shook; shuffled; turbid; turbulent; unsettled; upset