SHAKE in a Sentence

Learn SHAKE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
302 example sentences for SHAKE, such as:
1. He offered a limp hand to shake.
2. She put out her hand to shake mine.
3. Turn the jar upside down and shake it.
4. She could only shake and look up into his face.
5. Papa dismissed the idea with a shake of his head.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of SHAKE
shake
 n.  causing to move repeatedly from side to side
 n.  grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "Now then, go 'long," he said, with a shake of the reins that sent the sorrel placidly jogging down the hill.'
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  Still she said nothing, wishing that it was permissible to shake one's father and tell him to hush his mouth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  She could only shake and look up into his face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  All the girls who haven't already taken booths have more excuses than you could shake a stick at.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  Scarlett stared at her and had an impulse to shake her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
6  Scarlett began to shake and her eyes burned with tears of fright.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
7  The upstairs hall seemed to shake as Mammy's ponderous weight came toward the door.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
8  Scarlett had been restraining her appetite for hours, waiting for the return of the others and the thought of the Yankee eating their meager meal made her shake with anger.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
9  She slipped it into place with a hand that did not shake.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
10  They leaned over the fence rail to shake hands with Scarlett when she called and they laughed at her rickety wagon, their black eyes bitter, for they were laughing at themselves as well as her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
11  I'll think of it later, and she pushed the unwelcome idea into the back of her mind lest it shake her resolution.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
12  She could not breathe; he was choking her; her stays were like a swiftly compressing band of iron; his arms about her made her shake with helpless hate and fury.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
13  Scarlett felt, rather than saw, the black chin begin to shake with hurt pride, and a killing rage swept over her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
14  Peter's criticism hurt worse than anything Frank or Aunt Pitty or the neighbors had said and it so annoyed her she longed to shake the old darky until his toothless gums clapped together.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
15  And the old gentleman would just look at her sort of puzzled-like and shake his head.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
Example Sentence: (92 in 7 pages)
1  I caught him a lap later, and although I could pass him I could not shake him off.
2  This discovery may shake traditional theories on how mountains are formed.
3  Turn the jar upside down and shake it.
4  We can't shake down the whole building, - only the suspect's apartment.
5  He drove through the red lights in an attempt to shake off the police car that was chasing him.
6  A financial scandal would shake the Institute's standing in the international academic community.
7  These countries are trying to shake off the stultifying effects of several decades of state control.
8  She put out her hand to shake mine.
9  Papa dismissed the idea with a shake of his head.
10  Outside investment has helped Sheridan to shake off its image as a depressed industrial town.
11  Wait a minute, I want to shake some of this water out of my boots.
12  Give the new arrangements time to shake down - I'm sure they'll be OK.
13  The government wanted to reform the institutions, to shake up the country.
14  He stamped his feet to shake off the snow from his boots.
15  He offered a limp hand to shake.