Definition of shifting in English:

shifting

adjective ˈʃɪftɪŋˈʃɪftɪŋ

Changing, especially unpredictably.
diverse districts with shifting demographics
Example sentencesExamples
- Like product success in a perpetually shifting marketplace, power accrues to those with their finger on the present pulse.
- People boarded and got off the boat at different cities, so we were always working with a shifting team.
- This is an amazing, and amazingly depressing, novella of the rise and fall of an alien society around a shifting religious myth.
- You're going to see shifting trends all the time.
- The wars were chaotic, an impenetrable series of vicious contests between shifting clan alliances.
- Here scenes, film images and chance encounters will merge, transform and dissolve before you like a constantly shifting hallucinatory dream.
- The production sounds great and the music is very interesting, with shifting rhythms and moods.
- More than ever, culture and identity create constantly shifting borders.
- Girlfriend Emma and best mate Danny, meanwhile, chart the shifting balance of hopes and fears of friends and family.
- An ox grazed a corner of the grounds; the repetitive dull tank of its copper bell rode the shifting wind.
- It has left Rees with what she describes as "shifting emotional darkness".
- As the fund manager, MDL engaged in such transactions as a means of capitalizing on shifting market conditions.
- Shifting consumer demand is at the heart of this evolution.
- In all communal life there is a shifting balance between public and private activities.
- Since their 1988 debut, the band has survived a decade and a half of shifting music scenes and neglect from the wider music world.
- Not to gloss over a comprehensive and really well-illustrated history, but I was most interested in his characterisation of the shifting relationship between humans and machines.
- This shifting focus in higher education illustrates the need to understand what motivates students to learn.
- This year, there was evidence of shifting priorities.
- The immediate impact of the shifting policies will vary across the state.
- From shifting populations to the "brain drain" to the farm crisis of the 1980s, we've faced some tough times.
Synonyms
variable, inconstant, varying, changing, fluctuating, irregular, erratic, wavering, vacillating, inconsistent, fluid, floating, unsteady, unfixed, uneven, unstable, unsettled, turbulent, movable, mutable, chameleon-like

Phrases

shifting sands

Used in reference to something that is constantly changing, especially unpredictably.
whether something is accepted depends upon the shifting sands of taste
Example sentencesExamples
- At the parish level I have experienced firsthand the shifting sands of Anglicanism from covenant to contract.
- These questions found no purchase on the shifting sands of memory.
- The fate of the City Hospital is nothing new to us across the Atlantic, where market economy dictates the shifting sands of the medical landscape.
- Clan alliances are built on shifting sands.
- Any minister required to speak for the government on its most enduring policy dilemma knows he is on shifting sands.
- Aside from swings in the economy, the board has to contend with the shifting sands of global politics, a factor in re-shaping the company.
- "That idea is built on the shifting sands of biology," says Sullivan.
- He built his long-term hopes for the prosperity of the church on the shifting sands of revival rather than the steady development of congregation-based programmes.
- The religious history, while provocative, is built on shifting sands.
- At a time of great challenge in the world the commander in chief must stand on principle, not on the shifting sands of political convenience.

Definition of shifting in US English:

shifting

adjectiveˈSHiftiNGˈʃɪftɪŋ

Changing, especially unpredictably.
diverse districts with shifting demographics
Example sentencesExamples
- Shifting consumer demand is at the heart of this evolution.
- Since their 1988 debut, the band has survived a decade and a half of shifting music scenes and neglect from the wider music world.
- You're going to see shifting trends all the time.
- Not to gloss over a comprehensive and really well-illustrated history, but I was most interested in his characterisation of the shifting relationship between humans and machines.
- This year, there was evidence of shifting priorities.
- As the fund manager, MDL engaged in such transactions as a means of capitalizing on shifting market conditions.
- Like product success in a perpetually shifting marketplace, power accrues to those with their finger on the present pulse.
- The immediate impact of the shifting policies will vary across the state.
- It has left Rees with what she describes as "shifting emotional darkness".
- This shifting focus in higher education illustrates the need to understand what motivates students to learn.
- The production sounds great and the music is very interesting, with shifting rhythms and moods.
- An ox grazed a corner of the grounds; the repetitive dull tank of its copper bell rode the shifting wind.
- The wars were chaotic, an impenetrable series of vicious contests between shifting clan alliances.
- This is an amazing, and amazingly depressing, novella of the rise and fall of an alien society around a shifting religious myth.
- In all communal life there is a shifting balance between public and private activities.
- Here scenes, film images and chance encounters will merge, transform and dissolve before you like a constantly shifting hallucinatory dream.
- More than ever, culture and identity create constantly shifting borders.
- People boarded and got off the boat at different cities, so we were always working with a shifting team.
- From shifting populations to the "brain drain" to the farm crisis of the 1980s, we've faced some tough times.
- Girlfriend Emma and best mate Danny, meanwhile, chart the shifting balance of hopes and fears of friends and family.
Synonyms
variable, inconstant, varying, changing, fluctuating, irregular, erratic, wavering, vacillating, inconsistent, fluid, floating, unsteady, unfixed, uneven, unstable, unsettled, turbulent, movable, mutable, chameleon-like

Phrases

shifting sands

Used in reference to something that is constantly changing, especially unpredictably.
whether something is accepted depends upon the shifting sands of taste
Example sentencesExamples
- At a time of great challenge in the world the commander in chief must stand on principle, not on the shifting sands of political convenience.
- He built his long-term hopes for the prosperity of the church on the shifting sands of revival rather than the steady development of congregation-based programmes.
- Any minister required to speak for the government on its most enduring policy dilemma knows he is on shifting sands.
- At the parish level I have experienced firsthand the shifting sands of Anglicanism from covenant to contract.
- The religious history, while provocative, is built on shifting sands.
- Aside from swings in the economy, the board has to contend with the shifting sands of global politics, a factor in re-shaping the company.
- The fate of the City Hospital is nothing new to us across the Atlantic, where market economy dictates the shifting sands of the medical landscape.
- Clan alliances are built on shifting sands.
- These questions found no purchase on the shifting sands of memory.
- "That idea is built on the shifting sands of biology," says Sullivan.

单词	shifting
释义	Definition of shifting in English: shifting adjective ˈʃɪftɪŋˈʃɪftɪŋ Changing, especially unpredictably. diverse districts with shifting demographics Example sentencesExamples Like product success in a perpetually shifting marketplace, power accrues to those with their finger on the present pulse. People boarded and got off the boat at different cities, so we were always working with a shifting team. This is an amazing, and amazingly depressing, novella of the rise and fall of an alien society around a shifting religious myth. You're going to see shifting trends all the time. The wars were chaotic, an impenetrable series of vicious contests between shifting clan alliances. Here scenes, film images and chance encounters will merge, transform and dissolve before you like a constantly shifting hallucinatory dream. The production sounds great and the music is very interesting, with shifting rhythms and moods. More than ever, culture and identity create constantly shifting borders. Girlfriend Emma and best mate Danny, meanwhile, chart the shifting balance of hopes and fears of friends and family. An ox grazed a corner of the grounds; the repetitive dull tank of its copper bell rode the shifting wind. It has left Rees with what she describes as "shifting emotional darkness". As the fund manager, MDL engaged in such transactions as a means of capitalizing on shifting market conditions. Shifting consumer demand is at the heart of this evolution. In all communal life there is a shifting balance between public and private activities. Since their 1988 debut, the band has survived a decade and a half of shifting music scenes and neglect from the wider music world. Not to gloss over a comprehensive and really well-illustrated history, but I was most interested in his characterisation of the shifting relationship between humans and machines. This shifting focus in higher education illustrates the need to understand what motivates students to learn. This year, there was evidence of shifting priorities. The immediate impact of the shifting policies will vary across the state. From shifting populations to the "brain drain" to the farm crisis of the 1980s, we've faced some tough times. Synonyms variable, inconstant, varying, changing, fluctuating, irregular, erratic, wavering, vacillating, inconsistent, fluid, floating, unsteady, unfixed, uneven, unstable, unsettled, turbulent, movable, mutable, chameleon-like Phrases shifting sands Used in reference to something that is constantly changing, especially unpredictably. whether something is accepted depends upon the shifting sands of taste Example sentencesExamples At the parish level I have experienced firsthand the shifting sands of Anglicanism from covenant to contract. These questions found no purchase on the shifting sands of memory. The fate of the City Hospital is nothing new to us across the Atlantic, where market economy dictates the shifting sands of the medical landscape. Clan alliances are built on shifting sands. Any minister required to speak for the government on its most enduring policy dilemma knows he is on shifting sands. Aside from swings in the economy, the board has to contend with the shifting sands of global politics, a factor in re-shaping the company. "That idea is built on the shifting sands of biology," says Sullivan. He built his long-term hopes for the prosperity of the church on the shifting sands of revival rather than the steady development of congregation-based programmes. The religious history, while provocative, is built on shifting sands. At a time of great challenge in the world the commander in chief must stand on principle, not on the shifting sands of political convenience. adj.1 phr. Definition of shifting in US English: shifting adjectiveˈSHiftiNGˈʃɪftɪŋ Changing, especially unpredictably. diverse districts with shifting demographics Example sentencesExamples Shifting consumer demand is at the heart of this evolution. Since their 1988 debut, the band has survived a decade and a half of shifting music scenes and neglect from the wider music world. You're going to see shifting trends all the time. Not to gloss over a comprehensive and really well-illustrated history, but I was most interested in his characterisation of the shifting relationship between humans and machines. This year, there was evidence of shifting priorities. As the fund manager, MDL engaged in such transactions as a means of capitalizing on shifting market conditions. Like product success in a perpetually shifting marketplace, power accrues to those with their finger on the present pulse. The immediate impact of the shifting policies will vary across the state. It has left Rees with what she describes as "shifting emotional darkness". This shifting focus in higher education illustrates the need to understand what motivates students to learn. The production sounds great and the music is very interesting, with shifting rhythms and moods. An ox grazed a corner of the grounds; the repetitive dull tank of its copper bell rode the shifting wind. The wars were chaotic, an impenetrable series of vicious contests between shifting clan alliances. This is an amazing, and amazingly depressing, novella of the rise and fall of an alien society around a shifting religious myth. In all communal life there is a shifting balance between public and private activities. Here scenes, film images and chance encounters will merge, transform and dissolve before you like a constantly shifting hallucinatory dream. More than ever, culture and identity create constantly shifting borders. People boarded and got off the boat at different cities, so we were always working with a shifting team. From shifting populations to the "brain drain" to the farm crisis of the 1980s, we've faced some tough times. Girlfriend Emma and best mate Danny, meanwhile, chart the shifting balance of hopes and fears of friends and family. Synonyms variable, inconstant, varying, changing, fluctuating, irregular, erratic, wavering, vacillating, inconsistent, fluid, floating, unsteady, unfixed, uneven, unstable, unsettled, turbulent, movable, mutable, chameleon-like Phrases shifting sands Used in reference to something that is constantly changing, especially unpredictably. whether something is accepted depends upon the shifting sands of taste Example sentencesExamples At a time of great challenge in the world the commander in chief must stand on principle, not on the shifting sands of political convenience. He built his long-term hopes for the prosperity of the church on the shifting sands of revival rather than the steady development of congregation-based programmes. Any minister required to speak for the government on its most enduring policy dilemma knows he is on shifting sands. At the parish level I have experienced firsthand the shifting sands of Anglicanism from covenant to contract. The religious history, while provocative, is built on shifting sands. Aside from swings in the economy, the board has to contend with the shifting sands of global politics, a factor in re-shaping the company. The fate of the City Hospital is nothing new to us across the Atlantic, where market economy dictates the shifting sands of the medical landscape. Clan alliances are built on shifting sands. These questions found no purchase on the shifting sands of memory. "That idea is built on the shifting sands of biology," says Sullivan. adj.1 phr.
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