"shift" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- No one expected so swift a shift.
- Another violent transition can be avoided by planning now for an orderly and swift shift to democratic rule.
- Also after the war, an even swifter economic shift came about in Oberbrombach.
- With subtle, swift shifts of his knees and shoulders, he manipulated the board, so that he always stayed just ahead of the breaking wave.
- As he met Harkland at the door, Cranston saw a sneaking figure across the street; knew from the man's swift shifts that Anjou de Bianco was watching developments here.
- The New York Times editorialized that her "swift shift from regulator to lobbyist for the regulated will only add to Americans' cynicism about their government."
- Kurosawa let Mifune's oaken arms say as much about his ruined amoral samurai in "Sanjuro" (Aug. 27-29) as the actor's murderously swift shifts of facial expression did.
- The television announcers talked glowingly of Leetch's almost extrasensory knack for the game and its subtle but swift shifts of action.
- What one cannot understand literally, one can sense emotionally in the visceral ferocity of the movement he favors: sudden swift shifts of weight and direction by dancers, usually bare-legged, who fling themselves about with centrifugal force.
- In a stark and swift shift, Americans now seem more interested in pleasant carlike manners than in off-road rambles.
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