Example sentences for: shaken

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

  • A case can be made that Velvet Goldmine isn't fully filled in, and that Haynes, who has never shaken off his background as a semiotics major, has made a movie that's all signifiers.

  • More recently, Yasser Arafat's stateless Palestine Liberation Organization and terrorist groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad built organizations that have shaken governments around the world.

  • It's not what he may or may not have been "shaken down" for that day, but what he paid for the price of admission.

  • Bottles were plugged and capped with sterile closures and shaken at room temperature for required experimental time.

  • This documentary about a group of U.S. pilots who were held as POWs in the Vietnam War wins excellent marks from most critics: "engrossing and chilling" says Stanley Kauffmann in the New Republic ; Entertainment Weekly 's Gleiberman says, "You emerge shaken, with your perceptions--of Vietnam and of war in general--permanently enlarged."


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