How to Use shunt in a Sentence

shunt

1 of 2 verb
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  • That should shunt it to the north over the next few days.
    — Leigh Morgan, AL.com, 22 Sep. 2017
  • No more will we be shunted to the side, no more will we be hurt.
    — Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Casar says that will just shunt even more people onto the streets.
    — Alissa Walker, Curbed, 1 Feb. 2021
  • Norms that have long shaped the governing process have been shunted aside in the Trump era.
    — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2019
  • At the French Open, and even in New York, she is sometimes shunted to a lesser spot.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2017
  • The storm is like a snowplow in the atmosphere, shunting air ahead of it upwards and out of the way.
    — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 4 May 2018
  • The fashion world has more or less agreed with the Lebowitzes of the world, shunting shorts to the periphery of style.
    — Samuel Hine, GQ, 2 July 2018
  • The fault shunts extra current to some parts of the circuit, shorting it out.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 May 2023
  • The parents felt Seattle had shunted her out of the way rather than helping her.
    — Danny Westneat, The Seattle Times, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Comb jellies in the lab would ingest food and spit it back up—rarely shunting it out the other side.
    — National Geographic, 13 Aug. 2016
  • Under the right, or wrong, conditions, the Honda can shunt as much as 40% of engine torque to the rear wheels.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 19 Feb. 2021
  • In most of Europe, though, women at best were shunted aside for decades.
    — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2023
  • Warmer air in the middle of next week is shunted south by much colder air from Canada.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Sep. 2019
  • And that what gets shunted aside, in favor of the latest shiny object, might be the most important of all.
    — Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2019
  • After the fracking was over, the cracks would act like conduits and would shunt gas or oil molecules to the well more quickly.
    — Ian Palmer, Forbes, 19 May 2021
  • The front will help shunt the moisture through the region and lower temperatures.
    — Cheryl Vari, The Enquirer, 25 Aug. 2020
  • But a big benefit of having both a Shield and a GeForce graphics card will soon be shunted.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The more blood your heart shunts around your body and the narrower your arteries, the higher your blood pressure climbs.
    — Patia Braithwaite, SELF, 30 July 2019
  • That is some 1,500 officers short of the services’s full strength, made worse by politicians’ habit of shunting them from post to post.
    — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
  • That saw Jorginho deployed as the midfield linchpin, and fan favourite N'Golo Kante shunted into a new, less favourable, role.
    — SI.com, 25 July 2019
  • But most died — which is why Facebook is now shunting video over to its Watch tab, and even there nothing has really broken out of the pack.
    — Casey Newton, The Verge, 20 Oct. 2018
  • Norris, known to be a keen gamer, was involved in some last corner drama as a YouTuber shunted the Briton out of the way to drop him down into fifth place.
    — Matias Grez, CNN, 23 Mar. 2020
  • Their heart rates slow; blood is shunted into the body’s core, and the spleen contracts, releasing some of its store of oxygenated red blood cells.
    — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 19 Apr. 2018
  • But many rebel factions have sued for peace or been shunted into Idlib in north-western Syria.
    — Tim Lister, CNN, 19 June 2017
  • But the city is designed in ways that shunt water away from its natural water cycle.
    — David Hochman, Forbes, 21 June 2021
  • Brazil has in recent months shunted Uruguay to the sidelines while pursuing a broader trade deal with China on behalf of the bloc.
    — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 14 July 2023
  • After the baby is born and takes that first breath, blood is shunted to the lungs, which have been reasonably quiet up to that point as they have been filled with fluid.
    — Hannah Dahlen, CNN, 3 Nov. 2017
  • At the high altitudes, counterclockwise-spinning high pressure is present, shunting the jet stream to the south.
    — Matthew Cappucci, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Rameau’s Pygmalion and his statue were largely shunted to the background by all the frenetic activity at the front of the stage.
    — James R. Oestreich, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Add a busier than normal fire season in 2017 and even more permit work was shunted aside last year, auditors said.
    — Andrew Theen, OregonLive.com, 3 Jan. 2018
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shunt

2 of 2 noun
  • Sage needed a shunt in his brain to drain the fluid and relieve the pressure.
    — Keith Sharon, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2017
  • The baby is moving his legs and the brain pressure is good, which means no shunts.
    — Naseem S. Miller, OrlandoSentinel.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • About half the time, a broken shunt is the problem, DeCosmo said.
    — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2022
  • By comparison, only 40 percent of the in-utero surgery group had to get a shunt.
    — Dr. Manny Alvarez, Fox News, 23 June 2017
  • Doctors placed a shunt in the infant's skull to drain fluid, but the tumors in his head continued to grow.
    — NBC News, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Drew told the news outlet that Matthew is improving but will need a new shunt before they are sent home.
    — Alexandria Hein, Fox News, 28 Aug. 2018
  • The Marine private expelled a heavy shunt of air, a big smile appearing on his face.
    — oregonlive, 9 Aug. 2021
  • The shunt that was placed on his brain after birth eventually failed.
    — Priority Health, Detroit Free Press, 2 Jan. 2018
  • A month later, that shunt was rejected, and another had to be put in.
    — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 17 Sep. 2021
  • All or part of it may be dark because of a broken filament or a sketchy shunt (see glossary).
    — David Agrell, Popular Mechanics, 12 Oct. 2018
  • On Tuesday, his son Jacob underwent a 90-minute surgery to put a shunt in his brain to relieve the pressure.
    — Mike Hutton, Post-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Reiche was convicted on Thursday for the shunt attack and is facing up to two decades in prison.
    — Houston Keene, Fox News, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Soon, 7-year-old Hayden Dawes, who has hydrocephalus and has been in the hospital for a week to replace a shunt, appears on the screen.
    — Washington Post, 15 May 2021
  • The shunt was doing its work because Zara had had no dizziness or vomiting for months.
    — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 13 May 2018
  • Of her two operations, one involved fitting a shunt in her brain to drain the fluid to her stomach.
    — Sarah Schreiber, Redbook, 9 Apr. 2017
  • One of the best weapons against it in recent years has been implants known as aqueous shunts or glaucoma drainage devices.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 13 Nov. 2018
  • In that case, doctors may treat a brain cyst via surgery or implanting a shunt to encourage the normal flow of fluid.
    — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 7 June 2021
  • The doctors at Bridgeport put a shunt into his skull, draining the fluid that was putting pressure on his brainstem.
    — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 27 Feb. 2023
  • If a bulb's filament breaks, the shunt redirects current through the base of the bulb, maintaining the electrical circuit.
    — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 21 Oct. 2019
  • The Blalock-Taussig shunt procedure joined an artery leaving the heart to an artery leading to the lungs in an attempt to give the blood a second chance at oxygenation.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Though many months of therapy enabled him to relearn how to walk, talk and eat again, the injuries left him with scoliosis and a shunt in his head.
    — Donna Vickroy, Daily Southtown, 12 May 2018
  • Isabella Valle uses a wheelchair and has cerebral palsy, epilepsy and a shunt in her brain to prevent the build-up of fluid.
    — Kate Santich, Orlando Sentinel, 13 May 2022
  • No fetuses have died, few have needed shunts, and some of the mothers have been able to have vaginal deliveries.
    — Denise Grady, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2017
  • When a baby successfully breathes in through the lungs, the heart changes from parallel flow to serial flow and the shunt between the right and left atriums closes.
    — Laura Da’ Victoria Chang, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Viruses have mainly been seen as trapping energy at the bottom of the food chain, through a phenomenon called the viral shunt.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Then the tiny baby had surgery to place a shunt in his brain to drain excess fluid associated with his hydrocephalus.
    — Liv Osby, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2017
  • During the study, over 80 percent of babies who underwent surgery after birth needed a shunt one year later.
    — Dr. Manny Alvarez, Fox News, 23 June 2017
  • One infant needed a shunt implanted to remove fluid from her brain.
    — The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2022
  • The first is a shunt, which is a tube inserted into the brain to drain excess fluid out of the brain and into the chest cavity or abdomen, allowing it to be absorbed into the body.
    — Korin Miller, Health.com, 7 Dec. 2021
  • But with Pato O’Ward close enough behind him and appearing to have to change his driving line, along with significant debris on the track from the shunt, a local yellow did fly.
    — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Aug. 2021

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