Example sentences for: shake

How can you use “shake” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The premise: Two '90s kids are transported into a Father Knows Best -type sitcom and shake up its prissy black-and-white world.

  • Depending on what kind of person you are, this may mean you should 1) establish an offshore casino in the Antilles before the Department of Justice cracks down, or 2) wait for this stuff to shake itself out before you blow 20 bucks playing Web roulette.

  • This is where the park began and where you can meet all your favorite Disney characters — you’ll be able to shake hands with Mickey and get a hug from Goofy.

  • Similarly, unless you heard them spoken you might not recognize ajskrym, erebeta , and kontaklinser as, respectively, Polish for ice cream , Japanese for elevator , and Swedish for contact lenses . The champion of this dissembling process must surely be the Italian sciacchenze , which is simply a literal rendering of the English shake hands , although the Swahili word for a traffic island, kiplefti ( keep left ) runs it a close second.

  • Before I go back to bed and try to shake this damn flu, one more thing: the lovely piece in today's New York Times advertising column about the "Cash" machine, which digitally compresses the pauses and long syllables out of talk shows so that local stations can sell more commercial time.


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