Words similar to shake

Example sentences for: shake

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

With a relatively calm and stable Russia, Yeltsin picked the right time to shake things up.
We should recognize that 50 or 100 years from now, readers will shake their heads at what we are saying and believing today.
The likely explanation is worrisome even if (like Today's Papers) you don't follow sports: boomer editors who can't seem to shake boomer sensibilities when they come to work.
Maybe a good fire will shake things up, his thinking seems to go--take the rich people out of their game.
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.