Words similar to shimmy
Example sentences for: shimmy
How can you use “shimmy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
"So what you're telling me is that the car doesn't shimmy until I go 55 miles per hour.
Alas, after looking at the car, the mechanic declared that he couldn't fix the shimmy.
In short, now that he knows (or, anyway, prefers to believe) that the speedometer has been understating his speed, and that the shimmy therefore doesn't start until he is really going 55, he thinks that he can drive 55 as measured using that same speedometer . Uh-uh.
A couple of years ago the editor of Business Week had a problem with his car: Whenever he went too fast--whenever the needle on his speedometer went above 40--the car developed a dangerous shimmy.
The airplane passenger who, like me, hears a nasty whirrrrrsh on takeoff and feels the seat shimmy as if powered by Magic Fingers has no such choice.