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Example sentences for "shifters"

Lexicographically close words:
shieling; shies; shift; shifted; shifter; shifting; shiftings; shiftless; shiftlessness; shifts
  1. They were the scene-shifters belonging to the Odéon, who still had in warm remembrance the tips I had given them when Christine was being performed.

  2. The scene-shifters and gas-men were standing about--everything was going wrong.

  3. Nature herself assists you to this conceit; there is something so operatic and suggestive of footlights and scene-shifters in the view on which Lucerne looks out.

  4. The scene-shifters were altering the scenes, whilst Dorval was acting her part.

  5. In two minutes' time the three raps were given: the curtain rose and the scene-shifters had won their hundred francs.

  6. The scene shifters saw he was in a good position to be squeezed, and they quietly shoved the scenes together.

  7. The lover, intent on his inamorata, discovered his predicament only when caught, but the scene shifters were deaf to his cries, and he was held a prisoner.

  8. Scene-shifters hurried through the gloom with awkward sections of scenery, all of which had to be taken back through a doorway and replaced in order where they had come from.

  9. That stone putters when working with stonemen and shifters shall be allowed the same short shifts as those granted to the men with whom they are working.

  10. It was felt that the refusal was caused by the exclusion of the shifters and wastemen.

  11. Again the curtain fell, and the scene-shifters peopled the stage.


  12. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shifters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.