How To Use Shake In A Sentence

By the time harmony was a few centuries old, it began to shiver and shake from them.
Hopefully, North Norfolk will soon shake off this surreal obsession with the Lib Dems and embrace their NE Cambs neighbour's decent Tory stance. Will Iain Dale have to repay the donations ?
Shake them to bits and you are destroying more than property. Times, Sunday Times
Back in our world, custom has perhaps staled Shakespeare's infinite variety a bit.
Race your mate and shake your coconut down through the palm tree!

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Rinse the beans in a colander, shake dry and add to the pan. Times, Sunday Times
We may reasonably shake our heads at these romantic resolves. Times, Sunday Times
Shakedown analysis is a method which can be used to research the elastoplastic behavior of a structure under variable repeated loads that exceed the structure′s elastic limit load.
He said it was because he was paid to sit around and drink milkshakes all day.
Gadafy's striking non-endorsement of the Democratic candidate focused in part on Obama's pledge of "unshakeable" support for Israel, which caused dismay, if not surprise, across the Arab and Muslim worlds last week. Obama Taking Over Democratic National Committee Partly To Avoid Kerry's Fate
A year later, in ‘L' Allegro ’, the delphic element had disappeared, and Milton's cheerful man heard ‘Sweetest Shakespeare, fancy's child Warble his native woodnotes wild’.
Sakazawa was tossed and shaken as the ship bore the brunt of the attack.
So far, this scribe detects two "fortissimo" candidates -- people palpably impatient to get in office and shake things up. Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local News
He turned his back to the refrigerator and addressed the shaken lawman. WILD JUSTICE
And mashed banana with sugar and milk, and banana custard, banana milk shake and banana fritters. Times, Sunday Times
He'd made his own cup with extra caffeine to help shake off such an early start to the day.
Why feel the blues when you can shake them off by singing the blues? Times, Sunday Times
The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, or Shakers, remain the longest-lived communal society in the United States.
Shakespeare with practical axioms and domestick wisdom. Preface to Shakespeare
But the underlying cause of last week's yo-yo-ing on the markets was the long-awaited shake-out of the over-valued internet companies.
Despite first appearances, it adheres closely to Shakespeare's play.
Can't comprehend... He was suddenly aware of being shaken roughly. THE DEVIL'S DOOR
`I do not like this,'Ben said with a doggish shake of his head. VITALS
There is no doubt that the voters wanted to shake up the status quo and they have done this by creating what is almost a hung parliament.
It is a feeling that Mick Dobson, a 47-year-old binman, cannot quite shake off. North of England fears public sector axe in a return to divided Britain
What a suasory example it is for those, who through some freak of fortune, being enabled to shake off the dust of honest toil and industry, are very ready to look downward with contempt upon the rank they have just left. Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense
Her hand trembled slightly, and then it began to positively shake.
Show your appreciation with a handshake or even a letter.
He hates physical contact of any sort - he doesn't even like to shake your hand.
Kelsey fought to maintain control with the yoke that was trying to shake itself out of his hands.
Shakespearean tales of love as sacrifice, conquest or unrequited passion are beyond reason.
Her hands shake constantly and she keeps dropping things.
In spite of all this, there is something about Shakespeare and something about performance without walls; in combination, they make magic.
I'd digitally greet him, applaud him, shake his hand, give him daps, but there's a flaw within the fine print, a question i got to ask— A poetic response
Vermont, far removed from all beasts of prey -- why is it that upon the sunniest day, if you but shake a fresh buffalo robe behind him, so that he cannot even see it, but only smells its wild animal muskiness -- why will he start, snort, and with bursting eyes paw the ground in phrensies of affright? Moby Dick, or, the whale
For those who know nothing of the quick-step, the shake or the twist, there is a late night disco.
The Shakespeare Garden is planted with herbs referred to by Shakespeare in his plays, including mint, camomile, marjoram and lavender.
He pauses, shakes his head, then boisterously proclaims, ‘Aw, gee whiz, I guess that means the hot dogs are on me, gang!’
This is a faithful interpretation of Shakespeare's original text.
On the other end, there's the opening movement of Faschingsschwank aus Wien, where the lyricism is always being interrupted by a boisterous beer-hall ritornello: Florestan suddenly showing up to shake Eusebius out of his reverie and drag him back to the party. Been there, done that
It was passed through history by the Shaking Quakers, the Shakers, and that particular song is a call to simplicity, which is very interesting.
And you've got to appreciate a place that includes a shaker full of paprika alongside the salt and pepper on your table.
This dress moves in all the right places, so you can shake your thing on the dance floor all night long. The Sun
We managed to hunt down an In-and-Out Burger near the airport and showed Annie what a proper milkshake is supposed to taste like. Stonetable.org
the passengers were shaken up but are alright
Shakespeare is the greatest English writer that ever lived.
BroadwayWorld was there to shake and shimmey with the cast one last time! BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content
The major difference is that in Shakespeare the symbolic opposition between the world of sober morality and that of holiday freedom is normally made internal to the play.
You can shake down on the floor.
You can also get dosas, aapams, burgers, sandwiches, and shakes.
The jazzy percussion's reminiscent of Liquid Liquid: snaps, shakers, cowbell, and maracas.
Shakespeare to say: "Let the sky rain potatoes, hail kissing comfits, and snow eringoes. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
Tip the chickpeas into a colander, rinse and shake dry. Times, Sunday Times
I have a chapter on Shakespeare and Macbeth; there's the chapter about Ancient Greece, a chapter about Delphi and sibyls in Grecian-Roman times.
Shakespeare often wrote in iambic pentameter, meaning five iambic "feet" per line, each "foot" being a soft-hard syllable pair … da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM. Chicagotribune.com -
This was achieved by 1876 and the property vested in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in 1891.
A minor shakeup of its schedules, a general freshening about the edges. Times, Sunday Times
She could recite large portions of Shakespeare.
Instead of the classic English handshake at the end of matches, players opted instead for the ‘bro, you wuz good out there’ upright handclasp more usually seen on the streets of Harlem.
He amassed similar collections of American advertising of the 1920s, plus grangerized Shakespeare, Burns, etc.
Don't believe the old saw that you can't be out and still be a mover and shaker in Hollywood.
At first it's difficult to shake the feeling that it's kitschy schlock that they're radiating, rather than the sinister malevolence they may be aiming for.
Don't shake the bottle or you will disturb the lees.
He's now oblivious to his workmates' leg-pulling and says: ‘I wouldn't be without my three-wheeler even though I've never been above 60 mph because it shakes too much.’
But it's hard to shake the feeling that this is just a natty one-off rather than the future of how music will be made and marketed.
He drove through the red lights in an attempt to shake off the police car that was chasing him.
In _Coriolanus_, Shakespeare makes Volumnia the mother, and Virgilia the wife, of Coriolanus; but his _wife_ was Volumnia, and his _mother_ Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
The shaken man described one of the attackers as thin, in his early 20s, with long thin face and a Mexican-style moustache and sallow complexion.
Obviously, at some point in his life Shakespeare fell in love with the language, the acting, the exhilaration of the theater; in a phrase, he became stage-struck.
Save for the line from Shakespeare and the terms from the episode, I guess the rest of the verse is a series original (is it?). Eden of the East – What mystery dost thou holdeth? « Undercover
And that the children of the unwanted should be those that returned to the old world in convoys and troops ships to liberate Italy and France and Holland and the countries which didn't want their ancestors is an idea that's almost Shakespearean. The Canadian Experience: Lessons from the Canadian History Project
In Shakespeare's "Henry IV," the rotund, free-living Falstaff character was known as Plump Jack, famous for his speech defending jovial indulgences--"banish plump Jack and banish all the world. To Ski Or Not To Ski
When he saw me, he leaned on his shovel until I was near enough to shake hands.
Any measure that shakes up this self-satisfied and complacent group is to be encouraged. Times, Sunday Times
Take all the Latin words in Shakespeare, for instance - in Victorian times, educated people had studied Latin in school - not so today, so they need to be carefully glossed.
The tall teenager gave my hair a shake and caught up with Danny quickly.
The shingles are no great problem; I've shaken hands on a deal to have the house and garage roof replaced in the autumn and if I get a major leak before then all I need do is make a call and they'll hop on over with a large blue tarpaulin.
It is bound to be another year of numbers that will shake the world. Times, Sunday Times
In the scenes set within the club, superbly loud music makes your subwoofers thump and your rump shake and roll.
But then, how to create that paragon of dairy delectables, the malted milkshake?
In one of his early sonnets, Shakespeare wittily turns such "unthrifty" wasting into economic malpractice: Me, Myself, and I
The site of the Shakespeare, on the corner of Lionel Street was home to a coopery or barrel maker when most of this area was then part of the Colmore estate.
While some actors would resent never being able to shake off their past, John says he is proud to have been responsible for a character who is indelibly etched on the nation's psyche.
After a while, when she returned to shore, she would trot over to me, drop the stick down, and then shake her soaking body all over me.
Put the sugar, lemongrass, lime and a good pinch of ginger strips into a shaker and muddle them together well. Times, Sunday Times
Shake up your menu occasionally, and scour supermarket shelves for flavorful extras.
The Kindle itself has about 1.5 Gb of space; Shakespeare occupies about 5 Mb, so space is not a big problem. My Kindle, a review
A subject race, dragooned by force for centuries, has shaken off the last of its shackles.
She never seemed to completely shake the dumb blonde image off.
The real fireworks are provided by Shakespeare's poetry.
Put the sugar, lemongrass, lime and a good pinch of ginger strips into a shaker and muddle them together well. Times, Sunday Times
I look down at them now, their creaseless silhouette, and shake my head. Vivian Rising
Shake the bottle well before use.
That said, the story lacks the classic satiric or thematic bite of a Shakespearean or Molierian work.
The menu also has milkshakes and fruit ices, but nobody ever seems to order them.
Shake with ice and strain into stemmed glasses. Times, Sunday Times
Shake the bottle before you open it.
Viv," I said, contrite, and reached out a hand: I was greatly shaken, not having expected her tears. Port Eternity
His early acting career probably began with performances before a network of recusant gentry in the Warwickshire area where he served as a resident player under the pseudonym Shakeshaft.
The supposedly cocksure and unshakeable defence secretary has come under pressure to resign over the photo scandal.
It was a homemade Shakespearean tragedy being played out among our own pasteboard pavilions.
The obscurities of literary theory are mercifully avoided, frequently by such witty contemporary reference and colloquial language which bring Shakespeare into the world of today's reader.
He was happy to set Shakespeare, Herrick or Christina Rossetti to music that was clearly expressive of Victorian or Edwardian English taste.
Shake and double strain over cubed ice. Times, Sunday Times
Governments rise and fall, familiar names and reputations are juggled about like numbered balls in a shaker, come to the top to be submerged again in a new 'emeute'. Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
This ancestry may also account for the difficulty of explaining the motives of Shakespeare's villains.
Shake the bottle before taking the medicine.
Mistress Affery negatived each with a shake of her head. Little Dorrit
Between 1984 and 1987 he personified our inchoate desire to shake free of the Muldoon years and remake ourselves in a bolder, prouder way.
The automobile industry continues to be shaken up, with non-union plants far out-competing unionized ones.
Walsingham assigns assistant secretary and chief intelligencer John Shakespeare to investigate the scheme and quickly concludes the Drake plot is tied to the murder of a relative of the Queen Lady Blanche Howard, whose corpse mutilated with numerous stabbings was found in a London fire. Martyr-Rory Clements « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
An old woman advanced a few paces to shake her fist virulently in my face.
Kelly: On a similar note -- why did you feel the need to Italianize the names of the Shakespeare characters in you book? Archive 2007-08-01
At some point add a strawberry shake to take you to 247 percent of saturated fat and 166 percent of sodium.
But I could never shake off the loneliness that comes from being different from the majority.
What really means a lot to me is how encouraged I've been by the Brits, in terms of doing Shakespeare.
Such an examination could shake some of the confidence that built in 1995.
It emphasizes the three - step shakes and trembles rhythm and downward strong beats.
We just want a fair shake and hopefully we're going to get one. Times, Sunday Times
Who else challenges us as we look at depths in his life that makes us shake and tremble with longing to be like him? Christianity Today
He was driving a bus in the town and it has really shaken me. The Sun
It's my sister's old one, and I've come to learn that if you move it or even shake it, the screen will flick off.
The shakeout in the labour market after Christmas usually makes January a bad month for unemployment.
May 12, 2008, a magnitude about 8.0 large earthquake has taken place in Wenchuan County at Sichuan Province,China. In spite of the big earthquake, we will not shake the resolve and even bigger rain, we poured immortal love. Without frontiers, Chinese people's love spread in the disaster.
He greeted me with a handshake and a glass of wine.
A cluster of blossoms, when the wind stirs them, shake out a kind of aeolian melody, and it was that which so entranced Ala a few moments ago. A Columbus of Space
In this manner the shrimp are easily collected and can be shaken into the aquarium and water obtained for the next hatching.
He was reading the plays of Shakespeare when I met him in the library the other day.
When the man found that we were going to stay all night he bestirred himself, dragged some of the things to one side and put down a shake-down of pulu (the silky covering of the fronds of one species of tree-fern), with a sheet over it, and a gay quilt of orange and red cotton. The Hawaiian Archipelago
But an individual in Shakespearean England who firmly believed that all tomatoes are Killer Tomatoes was not being unreasonable or irrational, as we would be apt to judge someone who held that belief in modern America. Am I a Relativist? Well, It Depends.
He just wanted to shake my hand. A Channel of Peace
Clearly a lyric like To-morrow is Saint Valentines Day could not be satisfactorily translated, but in Shakespeares major work there is something describable as poetry that can be separated from the words. Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool
Tip the flour into a large plastic bag, add the cayenne pepper and salt and shake together. Times, Sunday Times
Even in an arena as illogical and playful as football, my faith in modernity, science, and rationality remains unshaken.
Revenge is sweet, saith the phrasemonger, and to the old lady whose discipline had been flouted and whose amour propre had been rudely shaken it was very sweet indeed. Who Cares? a story of adolescence
When you meet your demoness and she shakes to hell your unflappable demeanor. Kresley Cole Immortals After Dark: The Clan MacRieve
Palmer gave a sad shake of his head.
Wait, there he was leaning against a tree, looking as white and shaken as everyone else.
The recent massacre in Acteal has forced the government to shake off its stupor, at least for a while.
All the while unbelievers laugh; men of weak faith are shaken; faith is uncertain; souls are drenched in ignorance, because adulterators of the word imitate the truth. NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
The time-release solid scent beads are dispensed much like a salt-shaker.
I didn't self-publish Shaken, even though I endorse self-pubbing, because AmazonEncore will be able to reach a much wider audience than I can on my own. Archive 2010-05-24
At about midnight they were suddenly awakened from their sleep by a loud noise and the earth trembling, which caused the whole building to shake about them. The Gods of Asgard
When you flip phone ringtone decrescent ah, I think this meeting, if you are not careful not to shake on mobile phones, the function is also quite useful.
the first folio of Shakespeare's plays
Often in the past Ferguson has spoken of the importance goal difference might one day play in the title shake-up. ESPNsoccernet
Fortunately the terrified woman accelerated away, shaken but unharmed.
Our comic play was a burlesque of a Shakespearean tragedy.
The directors will each get a large golden handshake and a pension.
And once their fairytale officially ended, relations between them became the stuff of Shakespearean drama, with intrigues, infidelities and fights for centre-stage.
Scooping his own jacket up, Shanza gave it a distracted shake and tossed it over his shoulders in a dazed stupor.
She was always keen to shake off the early typecasting as the empty-headed sex symbol.
However, when lorries trundled past the snakes would be shaken off the branches and often smashed through the windscreens of cars because of their hard heads.
I bit my lip as I noticed that his hair was wet but not dripping, as if he'd just shaken the water droplets out.
They should have a slight wobble when shaken. Times, Sunday Times
Come on, shake a leg.We're late already.
Outside investment has helped Sheridan to shake off its image as a depressed industrial town.
Of Byron the passional man, we know nearly everything, while of Shakespeare's inwardness we know nothing. Pilgrim to Eros
All of a sudden the great sheltering limbs of the trees over Jasperwood look like ceiling beams in a quake-shaken house, ready to crash down.
Don Alfredo shakes my hand unenthusiastically and looks at me with an arching glance. Down and Delirious in Mexico City
They only shake in quick, short vibrations. A BOOK OF LANDS AND PEOPLES
Here's another tip: Before I started shooting, I set the camera on self-timer mode: This let the camera fire itself, preventing any shake that could introduce blur. Tips: How to shoot super night photos
He was shaken and very angry, and even though he wasn't hurt, it was very scary for my son and his wife.
And what we found is that in order to really get people out and motivated for a subject, whether you're on our side or not, is to kind of ruffle their feathers a little bit, to give them something to kind of shake their fist at, make them angry. CNN Transcript Feb 22, 2007
I leant across to open the door and we ran through the French ritual: Bon jour, ça va handshake. SKORPION'S DEATH
In any event, the composer was badly shaken during this era, which probably hastened his death in 1950.
Thou hast enabled to see such things, and who unshakenly believe The Confessions
I couldn't hold in my chuckles of laughter and neither, it seemed, could Derek as I saw his shoulders shake.
At the same time, the imminent introduction of wide-bodied aircraft threatened to shake up the entire industry for the second time in ten years.
They talk for a moment, scuff their feet, and eventually shakes hands and smile.
Should we see them as dreary drudges, blind to the creativity of the Shakespeares and Hemingways who are taking the test?
Grease a large baking dish, coat with the breadcrumbs and shake out the excess.
Mention "chinny" to Roach and he grins and shakes his head, bemused but also dismissive. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Jonathan has found a array of aged Shakespere texts in a living room of a Franklin Inn Club which assumingly have been left here during assorted times by members of a Society, as good as he has pleasantly donated or sent during a behind of to their place of proceed these copies of a Bard's plays. Archive 2009-11-01
The cocktails were served over ice in eye catching full-color shakers at restaurants, bars, poolsides and room service, and they were offered for sale to guests.
If in doubt, listen to the opening bars of ‘Boston’: guitar, snare, bongos and shakers, what else do you need?
Her career has included stage roles in plays by Shakespeare, Chekhov and Ibsen.
Shakespeare chooses names for them that are similar almost the the point of interchangeability: Hermia, Helena, both trisyllabic, beginning in 'He' with the stress on the first syllable and ending in 'a'. Shakespeare
Call it the urge to shake a leg or a penchant for merrymaking or an ideal mix of fun and entertainment.
We had shaken on it, writing it down as a solemn pledge against dating one boy.
But above all, he needs to deliver a dramatic and lasting shake-up of the entire political system. The Sun
The shakeup could be the big push that conservative candidate Doug Hoffman needs to come out on top. CNN Transcript Nov 2, 2009
There is no doubt that Hammarskj6ld's northern sense of propriety was deeply shaken by the roughness of the outburst, and ironically, since the Russian code of what is socially permissible comes largely across the Baltic from Sweden, it was precisely this rowdy behavior of Khrushchev's, dubbed Ne-Kulturny (uncultured), which eventually proved his undoing at home. An Autobiography
-- "Every Jack will find a Jill, gang the world as it may -- and, at the warst o't, better hae some fashery in finding a partner for the night, than get yoked with ane that you may not be able to shake off the morn. St. Ronan's Well
But it gave me this feeling, this sort of bedazzlement, that I've yet to shake.
They financed a whole new suburb, Shaker Heights, early this century.
And with that he lets out a long, throaty laugh so deep it virtually makes my chair shake.
I felt no nerves, just unshakeable positivity and confidence. Times, Sunday Times
The cells could also be grown as suspension culture in conical flasks on a rotary shaker giving higher yield of cells.
I chanced on a copy of the collection of Shakespeare's poems in the library.
However, adding soy can boost any protein shake due to its high content of glutamine and arginine.
Tennyson, in a "far off divine event, toward which the whole creation moves," or with Shakespeare when he said "There's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will. Church Cooperation in Community Life
Not exactly this have they got at nor the meaning of flowersO flowers, flowers slung by a dancing girlin the saddest play the inkfish, Shakespeare, ever wrote; They All Want to Play Hamlet. II. People Who Must
In 1632, two of Shakespeare's fellow actors published the First Folio, a posthumous collection of his works.
With his dark curly hair and atypical looks, he was cast as Shakespeare's Richard III.
He was shaking food into the aquarium, holding a container like a pepper shaker, sprinkling Vitablend into the water.
It sat there like some leech or scarab that nothing could shake off COMPULSION
Shakespeare market a very good one through tackle dealers at a price that will not break the bank.
And I often wonder about the Nick and Nora who formerly owned my funky old cocktail set - a shaker and ice dish festooned with dancing pink elephants.
So I can fully understand how a thrown football with a toonie glued to it could go into a wobble like a Tire out of balance that shakes at high speeds . Is There Anything That Global Warming Can’t Do? « Unambiguously Ambidextrous

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