Change gears

Usage examples of shift.

The Aberrant thing gave another great pull, and the whole caravan shifted.

FMT attracted the attention of the endocrine barons of Abraxas, and the whole story shifted into a higher gear.

For your willing ear and prospectus of what you might teach us, we will make sure, on your eight-hour shift, that we take all drunks, accidents, gunshots, and abusive hookers away from the House of God and across town to the E.

She flexed the controls, watching the moire patterns of stress and acceleration shift, trying to correlate them with what she was feeling.

Bartleby, lies about a century of early America, consolidating itself as a Christian capitalist state, even as acedia was in the last stages of its shift over from a spiritual to a secular condition.

I segued into the second movement, that sense of bright expectation replaced by the slow, haunting strains of the Adagio, at once lyrical and sad -- mirroring the turns my own life had taken, the shifting harmonies sounding to me like the raised voices of ghosts, of echoes.

Her sails spread slowly, catching the outwind of the local sun, their lead surfaces adazzle in shifting, light show display.

We could not, I adjudged, shifting my knees lower on his barrel, gain the trees before true day.

And even if they did, when adolescence came, when most people started shifting, would they be able to control their urges to shift?

In a small deep agate nest, one of the boneless beings shifted back and forth.

At once the riding became easier, for the moment a gust of wind hit the machine on one side, the elevators and ailerons shifted and counteracted its uneven effect.

The relative decline in politico-economic influence of the Northern Hemisphere during the later twentieth century, the shift of civilized dominance to a Southeast Asia-Indian Ocean region with more resources, did not, as alarmists at the time predicted, spell the end of Western civilization.

Thure and Bud, their eyes shifting restlessly from the face of the alcalde to the faces of the surrounding crowd.

Nysander shouted the command, and the stag form shifted and dissolved, leaving Alec in a dazed heap on the grass.

The platform tilted down ominously as he shifted his weight, but Alec hauled him quickly to safety on the stairs.