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Example sentences for: shrug

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If Gore were to complain that Bradley's plan required a tax increase, liberals would shrug and vote for Bradley.
Today, such a book--not that Wachtler has written one--would be greeted with a shrug.
Ernout and Meillet, in their delightful Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine , urbanely review several rather far-fetched possibilities including LMN—well, it is a series—and elephas (elephant), but conclude with a shrug of their shoulders and a suggestion that the word might have come from Etruscan.
It's a portrait of the artist as a perfect swine" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). British newcomer Samantha Morton steals the show as a mute laundress who becomes Ray's lover: "Rarely has a performer mined such complex and potent emotion from such simple materials: a smile, a shrug, an attentive winsomeness" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). One critic dissents: Mike Clark of USA Today calls the film "depressing" and only "sporadically amusing."
My wife thinks this is an utterly absurd way to go through life, for which I can offer no defense but a helpless shrug.