Shuffling

//ˈʃʌfl̩ɪŋ//

"Shuffling" in a Sentence (16 examples)

Tom picked up the cards and began shuffling them.

The purpose of shuffling is to randomize a deck of cards.

You can always tell when a ruler of the shadow government dies of natural causes due to the shuffling of power.

I like shuffling cards.

Stop shuffling.

Hearing Tom shuffling along the landing towards her room, Mary quickly hid the birthday present she had intended for him under her bedspread.

Hearing Tom shuffling along the landing towards her room, Mary quickly hid the birthday present she had been intending to give him under her bedspread.

Ziri was shuffling through the trees.

Elias saw grass shuffling around.

Jonas heard shuffling around his tent.

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As I lay waiting I could hear a sort of murmurousness beyond the door. It seemed composed of whimperings, slitherings, and shufflings, punctuated occasionally by a raised voice in the distance.

Jane Gibson taught the cast the movements of the various creatures they were representing: the linear shufflings of the hedgehogs, the dozy lollopings of the rabbits, the sinuous dartings of the weasel and so on.

He would also have been exposed to the coughings and shufflings, comings and goings, questions and answers, wailings and slammings, snivellings and sneezings, etc., which figured so prominently in the reference room […]

Then he warmed to it, and smoothly set out all his shifts, malices, and treacheries, his extreme boldnesses (he was desperate bold); his retreats, shufflings, and counterfeitings (he was also inconceivably a coward) […]

This world I do renounce, and in your sights / Shake patiently my great affliction off.

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