Object

• shoulder: We have tried multiple times to sit and talk with them but all they do is shrug thier shoulders and say i dont know.

Modifying Another Word

• just: The Air Force didn't take any side, they just shrugged.

Converse of object

• give: Seeing no other way out of the situation, Julian gave a mental shrug and pulled the trigger.

Particle object: off_obj

• injury: Dani Pedrosa shrugged off injuries from a practice crash to finish third, ahead of championship leader Nicky Hayden.

• challenge: The meeting began with a characteristic tapes-to-flag victory from Adams, who comfortably shrugged off an early challenge from Hancock.

Adjective modifier

• Gallic: The standard answer was invariably a Gallic shrug: sometimes you get in, sometimes you don't.

Modifying Another Word

• nonchalantly: She now shrugs nonchalantly and gives those who dare to say anything her famous bored look.

• slightly: You shrug slightly Drasoini says, " The Aether heals in different ways.

• simply: These are not just anomalies or paradoxes about which we can simply shrug our shoulders.

• easily: His stone-like skin can easily shrug off high-caliber bullets.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• off: There is a stigma attached to people who are mentally ill which they can not seem to shrug off.

Followed by a transitive particle

• off: A more perfect way to shrug off the terrors of the day I cannot imagine.

• aside: The profession can no longer with impunity shrug aside reasonable requests to mediate.

Used with why or when

• when: Yes, I should be along tomorrow, and will explain about the shrug when I see you.

Particle object: off_obj

• criticism: Start of term report: must do better Sep 6, Analysis: Firm in school security checks row shrugs off new criticism.

Preposition: of

• shoulder: At best, there was impotent rage; at worst, a shrug of the shoulders.