Example sentences for: shrug

How can you use “shrug” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • shrug, and they often occur after the Governor has delivered a line particularly well, or thinks he has.

  • 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.

  • Should I make a pest of myself and keep telling my friends that I live in Wales, not England, or should I just shrug it off?

  • Their relaxed attitude and their constant smiles are delightfully infectious to the newcomer, who soon learns to shrug off the stresses of modern life.

  • In favor of a blasé shrug: Anyone who has tried to follow Starr's investigation has long known that Whitewater, Filegate, etc., are forests of confusion.


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