How to Use mover and shaker in a Sentence

mover and shaker

noun
  • But the past has caught up with the 70-year-old mover and shaker.
    — Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Keep reading for our latest roundup of movers and shakers to watch.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Yet the mood among the city’s movers and shakers is not uniformly gloomy.
    — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Crain’s Cleveland called it the eatery where the city’s movers and shakers meet.
    — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2020
  • Look around and align yourself with the go-getters, the movers and shakers, and the ones who think outside the box.
    — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2024
  • In every change as fortunate as this one, there will be movers and shakers, winners and losers.
    — Ravi Gedela, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • But as a company, Ziggi’s is a mover and shaker.
    — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 8 Sep. 2025
  • There are also dozens of essays by the movers and shakers who are making a difference.
    — John J. Kelly, Detroit Free Press, 17 Dec. 2017
  • Waithe join a group of other movers and shakers to talk about the power of storytelling.
    — Kate Shepherd, Chicago Reader, 21 Sep. 2017
  • The takeaway seems to be that history’s movers and shakers are just as neurotic as the rest of us.
    — National Geographic, 9 Apr. 2016
  • That means money, travel, and a martini by your side, the drink of movers and shakers and those who were born to lead.
    — Astro Poets, Bon Appetit, 1 May 2017
  • Keeping you in the loop today with the latest movers and shakers in the business world… more news below.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 6 May 2026
  • These bugs, like all insects, are the movers and shakers of the forest community.
    — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 10 June 2018
  • In recent years, Yudkowsky has become a subject of ridicule to many tech movers and shakers.
    — Robert Evans, Rolling Stone, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Mack doesn't have an office per se, like most prominent movers and shakers in Houston.
    — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 6 Feb. 2018
  • And Domingo joined the opera-loving cabal of movers and shakers and donors angling to take charge.
    — Mark Swed, chicagotribune.com, 7 Oct. 2019
  • And the movers and shakers of financial services in cannabis aren’t only cannabis leaders.
    — Peter Su, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2024
  • Once crawling with Wall Street movers and shakers, the place has almost emptied out.
    — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2019
  • Now culinary movers and shakers place fresh cranberries in more prominent roles.
    — Cathy Thomas, Oc Register, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Some of the Musk fanbase might cheer loudly, seeing him as the absolute mover and shaker.
    — Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Since opening in 2001, George has become a go-to for the city’s movers and shakers.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Here are some tips from Quaid’s experience with the movers and shakers of the watch industry.
    — Allbusiness, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
  • But some of Broadway’s biggest movers and shakers prefer to look with hope toward the future.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 2 Oct. 2023
  • There's never been a shortage of movers and shakers lining up to work with TCM.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The 7,005-square-foot home sits on Chester Square, a magnet for movers and shakers.
    — Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 23 May 2018
  • Chamberlain, Bryant and Curry are not the main movers and shakers in women’s sports.
    — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 24 Feb. 2020
  • The yearly event, which draws art world movers and shakers from all around the globe, has been postponed until October.
    — Dan Singer, Dallas News, 14 Mar. 2020
  • Dolan has been one of New Yorks’s biggest movers and shakers, not Las Vegas’.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 29 Sep. 2023
  • In Charlotte last February, there were movers and shakers working the room.
    — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2020
  • To this day, the movers and shakers of West Haven advocate for Campbell’s gravesite.
    — Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2026

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