How to Use shuffle in a Sentence

shuffle

1 of 2 verb

• He shuffled across the floor.
• Whose turn is it to shuffle and deal?
• She shuffled the papers on her desk.
• She stood there, shuffling her feet, waiting for the bus to arrive.
• The manager shuffled the batting order.
• The Rams and Matthew Stafford are still sore from their opener, and now the line has to shuffle.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2022
• In the early morning, the birds will shuffle up and down the marsh waiting for the sun to crack the horizon.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 2 Dec. 2022
• In the clip, fans can spot Ice Spice shuffling past before Kravitz stops Swift for a chat.
  — Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 28 Mar. 2023
• One of the best ways to find that cadence is to shuffle and let your shoulders and arms hang free.
  — Milo F. Bryant, Men's Health, 4 Aug. 2022
• Stand quickly, then shuffle 5 steps back to the right and repeat.
  — Eric Sung, Men's Health, 10 May 2023
• Spring to one block and tap with your finger, then shuffle back to your starting point and touch the ground.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 3 Jan. 2024
• Noticing tears, Montana shuffles over to her mom’s side and takes her by the hand.
  — Will Lanzoni, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2023
• After Sears threw over to first twice in the same at-bat, McCarthy got a shuffling lead and ran on the next pitch.
  — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Feb. 2023
• There are four new No. 1 teams and much shuffling behind them.
  — Dennis Victory, al, 31 Aug. 2023
• This week, only three teams are unchanged, and the top four have been shuffled.
  — Jeff Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2024
• That caused lots of folks to complain about being shuffled around.
  — Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 16 May 2023
• Those desperate for the Virgin Mary’s help shuffle across the square on their knees.
  — Viet Thanh Nguyen, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2023
• Trump’s decision to shuffle around defense funds to pay for the wall.
  — David Weigel, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Aug. 2022
• That didn’t last long; he was gobbled up, run off course and shuffled back to a 29th-place finish.
  — Jenna Fryer, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2023
• Now with new ship Disney Wish, which joined the fleet this summer, the line has to shuffle five vessels.
  — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 28 July 2022
• As the crowd shuffled out, West made his way through the crowd, seemingly pleased with himself.
  — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 12 Dec. 2023
• However, at least there’s space to breathe up top, and shuffle to the middle seat.
  — Matthew Kitchen, Chron, 16 June 2022
• So loud that on a recent visit, the host can’t help but sway her hips and shuffle from foot to foot behind the host stand.
  — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2023
• After a short service, the doors opened and the first members of the public began to shuffle through and pay their respects.
  — Max Colchester, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2022
• Losses by any of those three teams could shuffle the seeding.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 2 Dec. 2022
• From regime to regime and as staffs are shuffled at Halas Hall, the precise order for blame changes a little.
  — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 16 Sep. 2023
• Nike shuffled the executive deck twice in the last four months.
  — Jmanning, oregonlive, 30 June 2023
• The club shuffled relievers all year to compensate for a leaky bullpen.
  — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 22 Jan. 2024
• Over the next few years, he was shuffled around the league and played in nine cities and two other countries, trying to land a long-term spot on a roster.
  — Christopher Kuo, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
• The person might have a shuffling walk, balance problems or a stooped posture.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 25 July 2023

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shuffle

2 of 2 noun

• He gave the cards a good shuffle and then dealt.
• We heard the shuffle of feet outside the door.
• Don’t wait too long or you might get lost in the shuffle.
  — Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2023
• Phelan is so mild that she gets lost in the fairy tale shuffle.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2023
• But now, the spring in his step was gone, replaced by a slower walk, then a shuffle.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 15 June 2023
• But the general thrust of it was just to play in a simple rock shuffle.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2023
• Feet stomp, scrape, shuffle, and paw at the ground, with hips, knees, and ankles swiveling.
  — Karen Campbell, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2023
• This isn’t the first time Cruise has gone through a leadership shuffle.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 20 Nov. 2023
• There is so much new TV, much of it mediocre, and good shows are getting lost in the shuffle.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Jan. 2023
• Driving around in the truck was really fun and doing the whole kind of dance shuffle with the bear.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2023
• The shuffle that Georgia’s made from No. 1 to 2 and back No. 1 over three polls hadn’t happened in more than a decade.
  — Ralph D. Russo, Chicago Tribune, 9 Oct. 2022
• Grab your besties and hit the dance floor whenever this song comes on shuffle!
  — Victoria Rodriguez, Seventeen, 5 Apr. 2023
• Or shuffle from New Orleans hip-hop to opera to soukous to dub.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 13 May 2022
• Stafford is so soft-spoken, he often gets lost in the shuffle.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2022
• All this is not to say shuffle influencers don’t get their fair share of haters.
  — Michelle Vartan, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• This prevents the wrenches from getting mixed up in the shuffle of other tools and sizes when stored in the drawers.
  — Tom Price, Popular Mechanics, 1 Feb. 2023
• My jaw was on the ground, hearing this band just burning on a real fast blues shuffle.
  — Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 15 July 2023
• The shuffle began May 1 with the death of Mark Kruger, 75, the council's longest-serving member.
  — Doug Thompson, Arkansas Online, 16 May 2023
• But Jimmy Butler is this team’s closer, and that never should be lost in the shuffle.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 12 Dec. 2022
• Caretakers will love that the belt is stitched down in the back, so it can’t ever be lost in the shuffle, avoiding any chance of a meltdown.
  — Belle Duchene, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Sep. 2022
• At one point air raid sirens go off, and the two shuffle down to a local church, where they are packed in with other people in a shelter.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 9 Jan. 2024
• Will Arizona schools, Notre Dame, be next in college shuffle?
  — Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 6 July 2022
• Then on third-and-1, Jackson threw a shuffle pass to Andrews, who scampered five yards for a touchdown at 4:09 of the first quarter.
  — Mark Daniels, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2022
• So this will require some sort of action on Bungie’s end to round up all Stadia-centric Guardians and make sure they’re not lost in the shuffle.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
• And with so many apps, there is certainly no shortage of quality apps that get lost in the shuffle.
  — Yoni Heisler, BGR, 25 Aug. 2022
• Japan is one of the stablest countries on earth, and there are no crowds in the streets as bureaucrats shuffle papers and write reports.
  — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2022
• In the top picture, Cooper has a great shuffle-jab release that causes the defender to fall down.
  — Lance Reisland, cleveland, 14 Sep. 2022
• The move coincided with a lineup shuffle that had the struggling De La Cruz moving from the cleanup spot to leadoff for the first time.
  — Gordon Wittenmyer, The Enquirer, 18 July 2023
• The book is, at times, breathless in its exposition, and nuance is sometimes lost in the shuffle.
  — David Treuer, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2022
• What’s often lost in the unemployment shuffle of to-dos is how to explain it all to your children.
  — Alexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 12 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024