How To Use Shake hands In A Sentence

  • It's natural to shake hands with sb. you've just met.
  • A firm handshake is the basic greeting, and people shake hands again when they part.
  • He watched them shake hands and embrace.
  • People can't hold hands with their partner, can't shake hands with a businessperson, they have to change shirts two or three times a day, stuff paper towels under their arms. Don't sweat it: Perspiring is just body's air conditioning
  • It's natural to shake hands with sb. you've just met.
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  • Strangers shake hands, and handshaking continues after the first meeting (Malays often raise the hand to their heart after shaking), though it is sometimes frowned upon between men and women.
  • She remembered John moving off to shake hands along a chain fence, his face rigid in the gray drizzle.
  • I'd shake hands but I'm afraid they're covered in barbeque sauce, flour, and who knows what else. CIRCLE OF THREE: BOOK 6: RING OF LIGHT
  • Lord Palmerston had scarcely shaken hands with the Speaker, in congratulation upon the end of a dull Session, when the Premier was hurrying Yorkshirewards to shake hands with London: Saturday, August 16, 1862
  • HHH is celebrating and it seems that alliances have been made within the heels as Batista and Triple H shake hands and Batista gets on the mic and declares himself the winner by forfeit.
  • I'd shake hands but I'm afraid they're covered in barbeque sauce, flour, and who knows what else. CIRCLE OF THREE: BOOK 6: RING OF LIGHT
  • Send out sease and desist Letters adressed from your compeatitors to your other competitors. then when they start bashing each other on the internet step in and bye the voice of reason…the peace maker warning each party to shake hands and be mature and professional. Alan Moore as a Neil Gaiman character
  • Most nights, Kent would decline to shake hands when returning to the dugout after scoring a run or hitting a home run.
  • Carla had been carrying groceries to the car; she'd put the bags down on the sea wall to shake hands.
  • All the dozen scientists crowded to shake hands with the bishop; he put away his crozier and shook them all.
  • The ANC leader said that although he and Mr de Klerk had spent many days, weeks and months working together and "quarreling" at the end of some of these exchanges, they were always able to shake hands. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • They shake hands, kiss greetings, exchange news and rumors, and take snapshots of each other.
  • Would they shake hands and agree to forget the whole thing were he to do so?
  • McCready did not embrace or even shake hands.
  • I didn't watch the fed nole match. is it true that fed didn't shake hands with the chair umpire!? after the match. andy fan! Tennis-X.com :: Xtreme Tennis News
  • Cruelty and fear shake hands together. Honore de Balzac 
  • One time after a close loss, I told him I felt lousy and I didn't want to go shake hands.
  • You just need to shake hands and kiss babies, all right?
  • She remembered John moving off to shake hands along a chain fence, his face rigid in the gray drizzle.
  • Don't forget to shake hands - it's the done thing, you know.
  • He watched them shake hands and embrace.
  • Anna and William stand and shake hands formally Well, it was nice to meet you.
  • Stop fighting you two - shake hands and make peace !
  • When Jefferson defeated Adams for the presidency, Adams left town before the inauguration rather than shake hands with him.
  • Indira Gandhi:You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
  • Auster reached out to shake hands with him, and Quinn realized that he was still holding the yoyo.
  • I'd never seen men hold each other. I thought the only things they were allowed to do was shake hands or fight. Rita Mae Brown 
  • He spat a bit as he spoke and Carrie dreaded the moment when she would have to shake hands and be spat at.
  • Shake hands with Munson; he's as good a canoeman as an Indian. The Forest
  • We are supposed to shake hands and put our nose back to the grindstone. Times, Sunday Times
  • You learn from history that although the young men from both sides threw themselves at each other in mortal combat, they could shake hands a generation later.
  • None of them helloed, and none of them returned my smile, and the colonel did not shake hands with me. How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion or, The Funny Experiences of a Raw Recruit - 1887
  • Do people in Italy shake hands when they meet?
  • In its turn beadledom calculates the sum the dead man brings in, and even the priest, wearied with the prayers of which he has read so many, and needing his breakfast, prays mechanically from the lips outward, while the assistants are in a hurry that the mass to which they have not listened should come to an end, that they may shake hands with the relations, and leave the dead. En Route
  • You can give me no advice nor point me out any line to pursue but you can write to me — & tell me how you are — & of your friends — let me hear from you as soon as possible. moralize metaphysicize pun — say good things — promise us some aid in the magazine & shake hands with me as cordially by letter as when we parted in the Strand. Letter 124
  • The capitano then came up to me, to shake hands, apologize, and present congratulations on our safe harbouring. Travels in Morocco
  • I'd never seen men hold each other. I thought the only things they were allowed to do was shake hands or fight. Rita Mae Brown 
  • In what other sport do the players line up at the end of a playoff series to shake hands?
  • Then the overmen of the different pits came forward to shake hands with him, whilst the miners waved their caps, shouting, "Farewell, James Starr, our master and our friend! The Underground City
  • Mrs. Peterkin hastened forward to shake hands with the lady from Philadelphia, saying: – The Peterkin Papers
  • The sweat blood treasure horse, the lance shake hands, the helmet is shining, I am puffed up with pride and violent.
  • Then the overmen of the different pits came forward to shake hands with him, whilst the miners waved their caps, shouting, “Farewell, James Starr, our master and our friend!” The Underground City
  • He broke off in mid-sentence to shake hands with the new arrivals.
  • I did the same, making no further advances to him, though, as I recalled how I hammered his body and head, and how he must have been pricked by falling into the gooseberry bush, I felt sorry, and if he had offered to shake hands I should have forgotten how grubby his always were, and held out mine at once. Brownsmith's Boy A Romance in a Garden
  • He was ranting at the Porto manager, refusing to shake hands and shouting with that hideous gobby bit of chewing gum bobbling all over my nice widescreen.
  • But instead of staying to shake hands, to move from table to table, to take names and phone numbers, to marshal some of this excitement for that "door-to-door" movement he had envisioned, Sharpton abruptly strode from the ballroom and the hotel. Pompadour With a Monkey Wrench
  • Mauki's three tambos were as follows: First, he must never shake hands with a woman, nor have a woman's hand touch him or any of his personal belongings; secondly, he must never eat clams nor any food from a fire in which clams had been cooked; thirdly, he must never touch a crocodile, nor travel in a canoe that carried any part of a crocodile even if as large as a tooth. MAUKI
  • Our time together over, I shake hands, thank her for her candour and walk out the door.
  • He referred in letters home, when he first got here in May of 1831, to what he called the stinking arrogance of Americans, the fact that halfway through a conversation with you they insist on, you know, spitting some long stream of tobacco juice into the corner of the room or that they'd shake hands with you as though they'd known you for 10 years, and so on and so on. Introduction Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America
  • His instinct was to blank his questioners, shake hands with the leader and exit swiftly.
  • Her first encounter excuse the pun , friendly encounter with Mumbai Police began from Mr Shatrughan Sinhas house , that she visits with me , she will salute and shake hands with his security the khaki force including the plainclothesmen sitting below. Archive 2009-10-01
  • The father first tried to shake hands with her.
  • It was a nonevent; some politicians came to smile and shake hands.
  • Of course, what happened was that he helicoptered to that Federated Farmers meeting, did not have time to shake hands with anybody, read his speech, hopped in the helicopter, and went again.
  • The patient appearing motorically “stuck” in an indecisive, hesitant movement, which results from examiner verbally contradicting his own strong nonverbal signal, such as offering his hand as if to shake hands, while stating, “Don’t shake my hand, I don’t want you to shake it.” The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
  • It's called "gazumping" in England, the process by which someone selling a piece of property accepts an offer from one buyer, maybe even going so far as to shake hands on it, then quickly — and often surreptitiously — accepts another, higher, offer from a second buyer, leaving the first buyer with his pockets agape and his heart broken. Philocrites: One thing you don't learn in seminary.
  • So Con went back to shake hands with "Snooks," who said very quietly: "I can't even say 'Thank you,' as I want to; I guess the best way to thank a pard is to live it, not speak it. The Shagganappi
  • Did Obama bring a ceremonial woodchipper for the backstabbing reichwing GNOPers to shake hands with? Think Progress » Obama Reprimands GOP: Stop Saying ‘This Guy’s Doing All Kinds Of Crazy Stuff…To Destroy America’
  • 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.
  • Just before his encounter with Dervogne, Obama did not offer the "bise" to Sarkozy's wife Carla, preferring to shake hands formally. Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories
  • When he saw me, he leaned on his shovel until I was near enough to shake hands.
  • They escorted her to the door, where she turned, smiling, to shake hands.
  • Like Iowa, the residents of the Granite State take their role as vanguards of the process quite seriously and in turn, the Republican Candidates are heading north, and lining up to shake hands across the state. Andrew Daley: "One if by Land, Two if by Google."
  • Trailed by John Thune, they made their way through the line of bikers — McCain thanked them, stopping to shake hands but also to hug some of them. McCain Pool Report: “A woman lying horizontally over a bike in what looked like an uncomfortable position” - Swampland - TIME.com
  • Annie's elation at having made Kate's day disappeared as she watched Marcia Reeves shake hands with her aunt and leave the house. CIRCLE OF THREE: BOOK 4: WHAT THE CARDS SAID
  • Gerald would have preferred just to shake hands, an old western bond of trust that has pretty much disappeared, but I do not lead a handshake life as my obligations and fealties to heirs, publisher, extended family are many and complex. Bird Cloud
  • Then the overmen of the different pits came forward to shake hands with him, whilst the miners waved their caps.
  • No amount of strapless dresses or froufrou fashion would convince Ava to just shake hands and leave it all behind us, and I would never admit defeat to her. FRONT PAGE FACE-OFF
  • Englishman, with the placability of his country; "shake hands, and we will be better friends than ever. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827

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