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
• As the name implies, Single-Deck Blackjack is played with 1 deck of cards only, and after each hand, the cards are shuffled once again.
  — Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
• Most of the folks who shuffle in and out, holding bags stuffed with quarter chickens and plastic foam containers bulging with side dishes, don’t know about the corporate drama behind the chain’s demise.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024

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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
• The Jets, who failed miserably in their quarterback shuffle after Rodgers' injury, would go on to churn out a bottom-five offense and a 7-10 record.
  — Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024