Shape

//ʃeɪp//

"Shape" in a Sentence (30 examples)

You're in better shape than I am.

If the world weren't in the shape it is now, I could trust anyone.

Pull into shape after washing.

Your watch is similar to mine in shape and color.

Our plans are taking shape.

Our plans for the summer are taking shape.

Music gives sound to fury, shape to joy.

The swimmer, Cindy Nicholas, barely made it ashore at Dover at the end of the exhausting swim, but a spokesman from the Channel Swimming Association announced that she was in very good shape.

The doctor advised me to take up some sport to stay in shape.

Don't get all bent out of shape over little things. A short temper can make you poor.

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The used bookshop wouldn’t offer much due to the poor shape of the book.

The vet checked to see what kind of shape the animal was in.

We exercise to keep in good physical shape.

What shape shall we use for the cookies? Stars, circles, or diamonds?

No design right can exist in features of appearance of a product which are solely dictated by the product's technical function (see Dyson Ltd v Vax Ltd [2010] EWHC 1923 (Pat) which held the shape of the Dyson vacuum cleaner to be unregisterable as it was purely functional) [...]

Your head is a funny shape, rather oblong.

What if God's plans and actions do mold the shape of human events?

A formal feature indicating a pre-Roman origin is word-final i, which is rare in the inherited nominal and adjectival lexicon. On the basis of this we may conclude that ispéli is likely the original shape of this word.

And if I 'm late for supper there 's a dish of macaroni cheese you must put in the oven and a tin of tomatoes to eat with it. And there is a little rhubarb and shape.

It was brawn and shape for high tea.

A top cheater seldom ever uses shapes or loaded dice because they do not assure you of winning.

Earth was shapen by God for God's folk.

1685, Satan's Invisible World Discoveredː Which the mighty God of heaven shope.

Shape the dough into a pretzel. For my art project, I plan to shape my clay lump into a bowl.

The professor never pretended to the academic prerogative of forcing his students into his own channels of reasoning; he entered into and helped shape the discussion but above all he made his men learn to think for themselves and rely upon their own intellectual judgments.

Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.

Mature the Virgin was of Egypt's Race: / Grace ſhap'd her Limbs; and Beauty deck'd her Face: […]

Bendtner's goal-bound shot was well saved by goalkeeper Ali Al Habsi but fell to Arsahvin on the edge of the area and the Russian swivelled, shaped his body and angled a sumptuous volley into the corner.

The more of you 'twas felt, the more it shap'd / Unto my end of stealing them

Oft my jealousy / Shapes faults that are not.

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