How to Use shifty in a Sentence

shifty

adjective
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  • After grabbing the slick and shifty Denisenko with the No.
    — Craig Davis, Sun-Sentinel.com, 23 June 2018
  • The shifty Texas wideout should vie for time in the slot this season.
    — Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Neely-Watley can take it to the house at any time with his shifty moves.
    — Perry A. Farrell, Detroit Free Press, 12 May 2018
  • The shifty receiver just picked the ball up and went 97 yards for a touchdown to start the game.
    — Marcus Gutierrez, Houston Chronicle, 26 Sep. 2020
  • But there’s a glint in the eye that betrays some shifty secrets.
    — Angela Hill, The Mercury News, 5 July 2019
  • The shifty rookie carried the ball 12 times for 60 yards and scored a red zone touchdown.
    — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2020
  • But the world seems to have gotten used to Trump’s shifty rhetorical style.
    — Mattathias Schwartz, The Intercept, 22 May 2017
  • There is the shifty owner of the industrial park where Mark’s life takes a turn for the (even) worse.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Smith is shifty enough to win one-on-one battles inside.
    — Dallas News, 29 Oct. 2020
  • John seemed to have no where to run, but the shifty receiver wiggled his way free.
    — Randy McRoberts, baltimoresun.com, 16 Nov. 2019
  • UConn got on the board first with a 51-yard drive capped off by a shifty 16-yard run by Victor Rosa into the end zone.
    — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 12 Nov. 2022
  • Is shifty with quick feet and never stops churning his legs.
    — Terez A. Paylor, kansascity, 8 Dec. 2017
  • To create that kind of lane, Harden relies on one of the shiftiest off-the-dribble games in the league.
    — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 18 May 2018
  • Waters is a shifty guard who is a tremendous passer out of pick and roll.
    — Amie Just, nola.com, 20 June 2019
  • Right before leaving the game, Hepburn stayed in front of the shifty Hunter and forced a pass in the waning seconds of the shot clock.
    — Ben Steele, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2022
  • Quick and shifty enough to miss contact in a phone booth with late adjustments.
    — USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2021
  • This isn’t impeachment, and Covid-19 isn’t shifty Schiff.
    — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 9 Apr. 2020
  • The defense’s first task will be to corral the shifty Tagovailoa.
    — Tim Bielik, cleveland, 12 Sep. 2021
  • When Myles Bryant pulled off a couple of shifty punt returns, his teammates went nuts and ran to him.
    — Jim McBride, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Running zone-read in 11-on-11, when there was no tackling and the quarterbacks couldn't be hit, Martell was quick and shifty in the hole.
    — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • But even if there isn’t much room at the beginning, the shifty Brown has the power to bulldoze his way into the end zone.
    — Evan Dudley, al, 20 Oct. 2019
  • Most of those fouls came in the lane, where the frontcourt of Xavier was too much to handle and shifty guards like Hunter who made all nine of his foul shots off the bench.
    — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 1 Jan. 2023
  • His 29 catches on the season show that the coaching staff has placed its trust in the shifty wide receiver.
    — Zac Blackerby, ajc, 2 Oct. 2017
  • That was a 63-yarder to Shavers, who got 50 of the yards after a short catch and a shifty move that left three defenders grabbing for air.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The freshman was shifty and athletic, and was able to still make plays when forced to scramble out of pocket.
    — Norma Gonzalez, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Sep. 2021
  • Then a trip across the Pennsylvania Turnpike was just rough and shifty.
    — Scott Sturgis, chicagotribune.com, 8 Nov. 2019
  • Assigned to guard shifty Hawks guard Trae Young, Murray instead spent much of the night in foul trouble.
    — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 6 Nov. 2019
  • Clint Eastwood played the handsome soldier in the 1971 film, and flashbacks in that version reveal him to be a shifty guy from the start.
    — Sandy Cohen, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2017
  • More and more teams are finding a need for smaller, shiftier players like Flowers.
    — Mike Preston, Baltimore Sun, 26 Jan. 2024
  • So does being smaller, shiftier and faster than them, giving the Ravens a different dimension in a spread offense that is focused on getting the ball to players in space.
    — Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 4 Aug. 2023

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