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Example sentences for: shrugs

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The Nation shrugs about the scandal.
Suddenly forced to keep company with men named Vito and Vinnie, to bury a corpse beside the East River, and to make like a gangster with a voice that's a cross between John Wayne and Tweety Bird, the squeamish Englishman winces, bites his lip, bats his eyelashes, shrugs sheepishly, and looks--yes--adorably abashed.
Shrugs the journalist, by way of expiation, "It wasn't my story."
He shrugs fatalistically.
"I'll play the hand I was dealt," he shrugs stoically.