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Similar words: shrug offdrugshrimpshrinkmushroomstruggle forstruggle againstMeaning: [ʃrʌg]  n. a gesture involving the shoulders. v. raise one's shoulders to indicate indifference or resignation. 
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31. Shrug, and serve some more clam chowder.
32. Then, with a shrug, she opened one of the cubicle doors and ushered him inside.
33. When asked, archivists and art dealers shrug and allude to the war.
34. The lifeguard raised his shoulders in a musclebound shrug and tugged at the whistle around his neck.
35. When they do, they're tough enough to shrug it off.
36. At a cattle auction, the rough men under the cowboy hats shrug their shoulders.
37. She wanted to shrug off his firm, proprietorial grasp but managed to resist.
38. Well, she supposed, with a slight shrug, whatever turned you on - only it didn't; not really.
39. It was a shrug the shoulders, sink the hands deep in the pockets and be fed up about the running nose cold.
40. They were all too kind to snigger but Suzi distinctly saw fat Luiza shrug her shoulders in a gesture of fatalistic despair.
41. People once accepted government greed and graft with a shrug of resignation.
42. For a moment she hesitated,[http://sentencedict.com/shrug.html] then gave a mental shrug.
43. We could just shrug, and say that's what you get for being poor.
44. The best response is to shrug your shoulders and carry on being yourself without either crumpling into a wounded heap or retaliating.
45. Polly stared after him, then, with a shrug, went into the tiny shower-room.
46. To pass everyone was to accept the situation he had described in his memo with a shrug.
47. As I thanked her, Marie looked over her shoulder at Bobbie and gave a little shrug, sharing the joke with her.
48. Rowboats, a few feet out to sea, moored empty, shrug their bafflement.
49. Donald said, what can one do, and we both pretended to shrug it off, to hurry away.
50. The royals will try to shrug off their problems and put on a good show for Margaret.
51. At last, Auster gave a little shrug, which seemed to acknowledge that they had come to an impasse.
52. Glancing sideways at her companion, she gave a resigned shrug.
53. Meanwhile, the indestructible burial mound would shrug off the tempest like a great, ageless whale.
54. "I'm sorry I'm so late. Have you been waiting long?" he asked. She gave a nonchalant shrug.
55. I quit cold turkey some 25 years ago, but the specialists simply shrug off this kind of information.
56. Ewen came, with a shrug and a smile and a lifted eyebrow, and the two detectives close behind him.
57. She didn't feel at all able just to shrug her shoulders philosophically and go upstairs again into the sitting-room.
58. Cases like these should be distinguished from a superficially parallel set of cases such as shrug the shoulders and pout the lips.
59. For not immediately obeying him, or for her very presence? she wondered briefly, then gave a mental shrug.
60. Yet constitutional monarchists would be foolish to shrug off the event.
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