Went into reverse

Usage examples of shifted.

The image of the guilty Other who represents the sins of the people is shifted from the scapegoat driven into the desert and becomes the image of another nation, another people.

John Bull himself are given little subtlety but provide a basis for the allusive ingenuity with which the events of war and international activity are shifted to equivalent matters of law and domestic commerce.

The tricksters thus triumph almost as they do in Aristophanes, but the trio of tricksters has shifted from Subtle, Face, and Dol to Lovewit, Face, and Pliant.

The ground shifted under him, and suddenly he slipped down a pebbly slope and found himself slogging through calf-deep drifts of sand.

The ground shifted, but he kept his balance, only to lose it as his boots sloshed in water and a salty wind stung his lips.

Sanglant something to do with his hands, but he shifted restlessly from one foot to the other, seeming about to start talking but grunting softly instead.

Ekkehard shifted restlessly from one foot to the other, looking for someone in the throng of nobles.

She shifted in the saddle, turned her horse, and light glinted on her painted shield, a red rose on a silver field.

The entire center around Bayan swayed, shifted, and began to disintegrate.

Anne shifted to look at Liath, who at that moment gripped his wrist and braced herself as another wave of pain washed over her, harder than any of the ones that had come before.

His niece Tallia shifted in her seat as if his voice had startled her, but she did not look up from her study of her knees.

The point of the old nail had shifted, driven against his breastbone as if striking for the heart.

Milo was a heavy sleeper under any circumstance, and Ekkehard had been dosed with juice of poppy because the pain as he shifted in his sleep made it difficult for him to rest.

Sigfrid sang with arms lifted toward the heavens, and Ermanrich, who was quite overcome but eminently practical, dragged him bodily back as the pyre heaved and shifted like a creature coming awake.

He rose, and she shifted to see a tall figure coming down the line of wagons with a shovel resting on his shoulder and two huge dogs walking at his heels.