half-shrug

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Ivy lifted a shoulder in a defiant half-shrug, but did not answer.

Crimson Wind Diana Pharaoh Francis 2011
The other woman lifted her shoulder in a half-shrug.

Crimson Wind Diana Pharaoh Francis 2011
With an elegant half-shrug, Felicity left the rest of her sentence unspoken.

Black Dust Mambo Adrian Phoenix 2010
Mc Kenna offered a half-shrug, expression bemused.

Black Dust Mambo Adrian Phoenix 2010
He hunched his shoulders, with that odd half-shrug, something I hadn't seen him do in months.

Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
Augustine lifted his shoulder in an elegant and very European half-shrug.

Black Dust Mambo Adrian Phoenix 2010
"But he didn't, and I did, " he added with a half-shrug.

A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005
He drifted off apologetically, spreading his arms in a half-shrug to show her his concave chest and rounded potbelly.

Blood Lure Barr, Nevada 2001
Bob Lucas, the duty sergeant, frowned and raised one shoulder in a half-shrug.

A Place of Execution McDermid, Val 1999
With a half-shrug, he lofted another firebolt onto whatever it was that rose out of the drainage way.

The White Order Modesitt, L. E. 1998