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How to use shrugs in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word shrugs? Here are some examples.

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Victor smiles and shrugs, digs his hands into his leather pockets and trudges on across the damp sand.
Shoulder shrugs are yet another effective way to decrease stress, since most of us feel stress in our shoulders.
McMurdo shrugs happily and says she prefers to plough her own furrow unhindered by media hype.
Miss Ophelia asks him what becomes of their souls, and he shrugs off the question, saying it is not his problem.
Jackson shrugs his shoulders and waves his fingers in the air in a wild, gesticulating, heavily theatrical manner.
If Joe Public shrugs off each new encroachment as minor in itself, he will have only himself to blame if he ends up in state-controlled helotry.
This book teaches you how to interpret tells, such as subtle shrugs, sighs, shaky hands, eye contact and much, much more.
The drama of the event had the staffers buzzing but drew shrugs from the children.
She shrugs without much enthusiasm then leads the way along a narrow hallway.
Bradburne, a no-nonsense lady wearing a headscarf to protect her head from the bitter north wind, shrugs her shoulders.
He finishes with either bent-over lateral raises or dumbbell shrugs, alternating weekly between the two.
If you can't get up, do a series of in-seat exercises like toe wiggles, ankle rotations, knee lifts and shoulder shrugs.
She shrugs passively, disarranging her clothes slightly, but not seeming to care in the least.
He shrugs in the way a pop star might wonder at the fuss being made over playing to full houses every night.
He never seems to notice, he shrugs, laughs it off, but she smiles at these women, at every one, she smiles into their eyes.
He shrugs off any discomfort of sharing space with rodents and other wildlife that live in the thatched canopies.
But the 42-year-old Cruise shrugs it off as just another make-believe soul that grabbed him.
She shrugs them off at the turn like someone would an insect that sneaked inside their clothes.
She shakes her head, nods and shrugs, but won't utter a sound, even when asked direct questions.
In bed, he shrugs off her goodnight kiss and lies there waiting for her to ask him what's wrong.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Mr. Glentworthy shrugs his shoulders, and commences whistling a tune.
Another form of the tail-end question is body language that shrugs or slumps when speaking.
He knew that the southern races communicated with each other in the language of pantomime, and was mortified to find her shrugs and smiles so unintelligible.
When he spoke he accompanied his words with many shrugs of his narrow shoulders and with waving of his arms and other strange and amusing gesticulations.
Both were very dark, and this, in connection with the shrugs and stealthy glances that accompanied their palpable intriguing, lent still greater force to the similarity.
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