How To Use Shakily In A Sentence

  • Shakily, she picked her way carefully down the steps, wondering what the treatment would be like, and why she had never heard the word staph before.2 SUPERBUG
  • Car sales are recovering shakily from last year's three - decade low in the US.
  • "Yes, yes I am, " I replied shakily, carefully setting the china cup on the table.
  • He heaved in another deep breath, exhaled shakily, and picked up the card with somewhat senseless fingers.
  • I tilted my head in question, but an officer walked forward with a billy club and said roughly and a bit shakily, ‘Now, young man.’
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  • Woods began shakily, slicing his opening drive into the trees before scrambling for a par via the greenside bunker.
  • She shakily unfastened her seat belt and opened the car door.
  • She got up from the ground shakily and latched onto a post for support.
  • One vivid memory is that of a pensioner shakily parting with the sum of £2 in exchange for a pen marketed in a presentation box.
  • Mrs. Mahathy's face turned a beautiful puce color and her finger rose shakily towards the door.
  • She stood somewhat shakily and took two slow, dragging steps before sitting down heavily once more with a self-mocking smile.
  • He shakily concludes that, in Roosevelt, ‘one senses a presence larger than can be conveyed by any balance sheet tally of pluses and minuses.’
  • After about half an hour of incessant prattle, an elderly man rose shakily from his seat and, with all his strength, slammed shut the door leading to vestibule.
  • Upon extinguishing her last hope, she shuddered with pain, either inside or out, and rose shakily to her feet.
  • She shakily holds it and poises the pen over the paper.
  • Shakily I splashed some cold water onto my stricken face, wishing the cold liquid to act as a reality check, maybe even wake me up from this painfully real nightmare.
  • Pickering, having followed him with the eye of fear, went rather shakily into the house, his brain whirling with professional cracksmen and gas pipes and assaulted butlers, to relate his adventure. Uneasy Money
  • this theory is rather shakily supported by some obscure data
  • It was a dainty linen handkerchief, delicately edged with snow white tatting, the initial `A" rather shakily embroidered in one corner. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
  • `I--I'm going to make you a cup of tea', she explained shakily
  • Shakily their spearheads faced the forest as gradually a low pounding noise grew.
  • Too often, adverbs are used by writers to explain dialogue. (said icily …. shakily said … abruptly shouted ..) The Mistakes Romance Writers Make « Write Anything
  • A nightshirt, or indeed any other kind of nightwear, was not only unnecessary but unwelcome as well when it came between her and the sensual warmth of Guard's skin, the touch of his hands and mouth, when-Shakily Rosy tried to banish her wantonly erotic thoughts, but as she glanced in the mirror she suspected that her flushed face and shining eyes gave her away. Unwanted Wedding
  • Shakily I follow the same course, yanking myself into the space between two broad slabs.
  • Shakily, Adam rose to his feet while the dog fixed him with a baleful glare and a low threatening rumble escaped its throat. LOST SUMMER
  • Pulling herself painfully up, she wobbled shakily on the cobbles, catching the icy metal of the lamp-post next to her to steady herself.
  • Shaking my head, I stood shakily to my legs and stumbled over to the water, taking off my sodden shirt and placing it on the ground next to me.
  • Jill rose shakily to her feet.
  • Jigeehuu ambled shakily over to it after our first embrace and ladled out half a pint for me in a rice bowl.
  • The Duke shakily got to his feet, and he hurried out of the room, just as a servant and two guards entered.

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