How do you use Shafted in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Shafted meaning
simple past and past participle of shaft
Using Shafted
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of shaft
- In the example corpus, shafted often appears in combinations such as: being shafted, was shafted, get shafted.
Context around Shafted
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 7 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Shafted
- In this selection, "shafted" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, get, getting, activists, financially and club stand out and add context to how "shafted" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a hickory shafted club at and animal activists shafted a little. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "shafted" sits close to words such as aami, abada and abbottabad, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with shafted
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
We feel like we’ve been shafted. (7 words)
Ronson believes her husband was shafted financially. (7 words)
He is now being shafted by the pf. (8 words)
Some will kill for it, steal it or steal for it, lie for it, do whatever it takes to get more, just to have more — and plenty of people get shafted in the process. (34 words)
The animal activists shafted a little girl, claimed ignorance and gave a BS story to a reporter when asked, making the fair eat the cost and donate the pork to a charity. (32 words)
Anybody watching the various videos of Chansley’s behavior in the capitol cannot conclude anything but that they have been lied to and that Chansley was shafted for purely political reasons. (31 words)
Example sentences (13)
Anybody watching the various videos of Chansley’s behavior in the capitol cannot conclude anything but that they have been lied to and that Chansley was shafted for purely political reasons.
In July, they revealed that they were motivated to take on the ambitious project after seeing one of their musician friends “getting shafted with split releases and delays to vinyl delivery”.
The animal activists shafted a little girl, claimed ignorance and gave a BS story to a reporter when asked, making the fair eat the cost and donate the pork to a charity.
We feel like we’ve been shafted.
Ronson believes her husband was shafted financially.
The redline issue is that too many Guyanese workers have been shortchanged, then shafted, then rolled around in the dirt, and then given the boot.
Some will kill for it, steal it or steal for it, lie for it, do whatever it takes to get more, just to have more — and plenty of people get shafted in the process.
He is now being shafted by the pf.
How best to harness WeChat to win key votes without being shafted by opponents is a trickier question.
Once again, sugar workers are being shafted because their leaders are either cowardly or have been seduced by filthy lucre.
I’m not one of those short men who feels he got shafted.
Schneider sure seems to get shafted on trades.
He once bet that he could drive a golf ball 500 yards, using a hickory-shafted club, at a time when an expert player's drive was just over 200 yards.
Common combinations with shafted
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- being shafted 3×
- was shafted 2×
- get shafted 2×
- shafted by 2×