She gave a shrug and walked away.
She gave a shrug of her shoulders.
When someone asks me this I just shrug and smile.
I would answer with a shrug of my shoulders.
Americans will no longer be able to shrug off European concepts.
Oftentimes, we’ll just shrug it off and say that life got in the way.
I really admire the way she is able to shrug off unfair criticism.
They would shrug their shoulders, and treat you like a child.
A shrug, a sigh, or any of a number of expressive sounds as well as speech can follow it.
“I’m a lousy gambler, ” he said with a shrug. “But maybe I’ll do better now, knowing there’s nothing to lose.”
Many retail investors shrug off the inherent disadvantage they face, with so many insiders privy to so much information that they are not.
Westerners may shrug at the decline of traditional hunting but, in a sense, we all live on the Greenland ice sheet now.
The waitress, landed with the thankless task of defending pea and ham soup to one of Britain's most outspoken vegetarians, can only shrug and look mortified.
With a novelist’s interest in detail, he carefully observed the shrug of one man’s shoulders, the position of another’s hands, the scowl on one face and the frown on yet one more.
Boys are driven by their internal engine, their brain, to wander, investigate, grab, and take apart the world around them. They are so driventhat they may shrug off disapproval from their parents.
It's tempting to shrug and wonder whether the legacy of new green initiatives will be as lackluster as the "green Olympics" - or to feel blue at the lack of promised "blue skies."
