Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: shuttle
IPA transcription: [ʃ'ʌtəl]
Pronunciations of shuttle
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verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: shuttle
    Meaning: travel back and forth between two points
Usage examples
  • The guards tested Doc's manacles and forced him into the shuttle.
  • The shuttle lifted sluggishly, but there was no great difficulty.
  • He had to reach the wastelands away from any of the shuttle ports.
  • That shuttle pilot was found in a routine check, stowed away on the life raft.
  • The landing space was too small for one of the station shuttles, but a little Northport-Southport shuttle was parked there after what must have been a difficult set-down.
  • From her hand flew swift the shuttle, In her hands the reel was turning, And the copper shafts they clattered, And the silver comb resounded, As the maiden wove the fabric, And with silver interwove it.
  • And round the house sat fifty maid servants, some grinding the meal in the mill, some turning the spindle, some weaving at the loom, while their hands twinkled as they passed the shuttle, like quivering aspen leaves.
  • Lovely was the maid of Pohja, Famed on land, on water peerless, On the arch of air high-seated, Brightly shining on the rainbow, Clad in robes of dazzling lustre, Clad in raiment white and shining. There she wove a golden fabric, Interwoven all with silver, And her shuttle was all golden, And her comb was all of silver.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Peter Jennings, License CC BY-SA 4.0