How to Use shunt in a Sentence

shunt

1 of 2 verb
  • No more will we be shunted to the side, no more will we be hurt.
    — Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press, 27 Oct. 2017
  • His marker shunted the ball out of play.
    — Amy Lawrence, New York Times, 6 May 2026
  • Casar says that will just shunt even more people onto the streets.
    — Alissa Walker, Curbed, 1 Feb. 2021
  • Then, it was shunted behind the budget.
    — Vivian Jones, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
  • He was soon shunted into the spotlight.
    — Chris McKenna, New York Times, 8 May 2026
  • For this, Florence was shunted.
    — Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
  • In most of Europe, though, women at best were shunted aside for decades.
    — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2023
  • In past years, our dreams of May are too often shunted from a mainline to a spur.
    — Jerry Shnay, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2026
  • 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
  • The parents felt Seattle had shunted her out of the way rather than helping her.
    — Danny Westneat, The Seattle Times, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Warmer air in the middle of next week is shunted south by much colder air from Canada.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • When rains and warmth arrive, the endosperm digests itself and shunts food to the growing seedling.
    — Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The clams shunt sulfur- and oxygen-rich water to bacteria that live inside the clams’ gills.
    — David George Haskell, Big Think, 27 Mar. 2026
  • But the city is designed in ways that shunt water away from its natural water cycle.
    — David Hochman, Forbes, 21 June 2021
  • 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
  • The front will help shunt the moisture through the region and lower temperatures.
    — Cheryl Vari, The Enquirer, 25 Aug. 2020
  • Don't shunt him into time limits with coffee and location limits with movies.
    — Lodro Rinzler, Marie Claire, 23 Oct. 2013
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • Truman had been shunted off to relatives and marked as an outsider from the beginning.
    — Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The grievances of older white populations in the West who felt they had been shunted aside.
    — Richard Stengel, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
  • But many rebel factions have sued for peace or been shunted into Idlib in north-western Syria.
    — Tim Lister, CNN, 19 June 2017
  • 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
  • Pickett is hardly the first writer to feel shunted by Hollywood.
    — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Mar. 2023
  • 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 a big benefit of having both a Shield and a GeForce graphics card will soon be shunted.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 1 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • 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

shunt

2 of 2 noun
  • Taylor now has two shunts, one on each side.
    — Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 2 Nov. 2025
  • The baby is moving his legs and the brain pressure is good, which means no shunts.
    — Naseem S. Miller, OrlandoSentinel.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Sage needed a shunt in his brain to drain the fluid and relieve the pressure.
    — Keith Sharon, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2017
  • The shunt that was placed on his brain after birth eventually failed.
    — Priority Health, Detroit Free Press, 2 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • 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 shunt was doing its work because Zara had had no dizziness or vomiting for months.
    — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 13 May 2018
  • 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
  • One infant needed a shunt implanted to remove fluid from her brain.
    — The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • By comparison, only 40 percent of the in-utero surgery group had to get a shunt.
    — Dr. Manny Alvarez, Fox News, 23 June 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Two days later, Benjamin underwent surgery in which a shunt was placed in his head to drain the excess fluid to his abdomen.
    — Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • Zen immediately had brain surgery, including a shunt to remove the fluid.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2021
  • If a bulb's filament breaks, the shunt redirects current through the base of the bulb, maintaining the electrical circuit.
    — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 19 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • But there are other centers that perform basic fetal procedures, such as transfusions and shunts.
    — Naseem S. Miller, OrlandoSentinel.com, 17 Aug. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • If the system loses power for any reason, current shunts back through the motors, bringing them down gradually rather than abruptly.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Dec. 2019
  • The shunt changed the lives of patients everywhere, because living with kidney disease became possible.
    — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 3 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • If a trial of relieving pressure by removing fluid from the brain is effective at improving symptoms, a shunt is then placed.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023

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