How to Use mover and shaker in a Sentence

mover and shaker

noun
  • These are the key movers and shakers behind the scenes.
    Jon Wilner | , oregonlive, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Crain’s Cleveland called it the eatery where the city’s movers and shakers meet.
    Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2020
  • The 7,005-square-foot home sits on Chester Square, a magnet for movers and shakers.
    Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 23 May 2018
  • Since opening in 2001, George has become a go-to for the city’s movers and shakers.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Yet the mood among the city’s movers and shakers is not uniformly gloomy.
    The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Andrew was a mover and shaker, but always for the good.
    Nr Symposium, National Review, 6 Dec. 2020
  • Hehre seems to have a knack for connecting with the movers and shakers who can help her grow.
    Karla Ward, Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2019
  • In closing, all of you movers and shakers are in control.
    Geneva Schlabach, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
  • One of those movers and shakers here asked me one of the great questions of this day: What are the Angels doing?
    Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Dolan has been one of New Yorks’s biggest movers and shakers, not Las Vegas’.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 29 Sep. 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
  • And Domingo joined the opera-loving cabal of movers and shakers and donors angling to take charge.
    Mark Swed, chicagotribune.com, 7 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • And with a new coat of paint to boot, the movers and shakers who make up Little Italy know this is the spot to be once a pleasant morning rolls around.
    Lauryn Azu, Chicago Tribune, 6 July 2023
  • Business Life movers and shakers also look to the future.
    Glendale News-Press, 30 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • Once crawling with Wall Street movers and shakers, the place has almost emptied out.
    Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2019
  • Wiig plays Maxine, a social climber trying to land with the right movers and shakers in Palm Beach.
    Marianne Garvey, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Allis wanted to make sure the teenage Sellers didn’t feel out of place among a bunch of Kansas City movers and shakers.
    Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 2 June 2024
  • That’s right: a major mover and shaker in fashion lives on Long Island.
    Max Berlinger, GQ, 18 May 2018
  • The House Members’ Dining Room has been feeding movers and shakers since 1858.
    Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Chamberlain, Bryant and Curry are not the main movers and shakers in women’s sports.
    Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 24 Feb. 2020
  • Waithe join a group of other movers and shakers to talk about the power of storytelling.
    Kate Shepherd, Chicago Reader, 21 Sep. 2017
  • In recent years, Yudkowsky has become a subject of ridicule to many tech movers and shakers.
    Robert Evans, Rolling Stone, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Here are some tips from Quaid’s experience with the movers and shakers of the watch industry.
    Allbusiness, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
  • These bugs, like all insects, are the movers and shakers of the forest community.
    Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 10 June 2018
  • Seven industry movers and shakers who could very well make the ranks of next year’s Power 100.
    Billboard Staff, Billboard, 25 Jan. 2018
  • And the movers and shakers of financial services in cannabis aren’t only cannabis leaders.
    Peter Su, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2024
  • 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
  • At the Amazon lot in Culver City, Calif., dozens of industry movers and shakers came together to soak up knowledge from the esteemed panelists.
    Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 21 June 2024

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