Sentence for shake | Use shake in a sentence

Sentences for shake. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use shake in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for shake.

• Beaton, shake! (9)
• Shake hands. (10)
• We did shake hands. (8)
• You shake your head. (10)
• He had to shake himself. (10)
• He could not shake her off. (10)
• As well try to shake off a burr! (8)
• She spoke with a shake of her voice. (10)
• A bit of a shake always braces me up. (10)
• Go and kiss Clare, and shake his hand. (10)
• No wind, and yet there they shake away. (10)
• They fly at each other, and shake hands. (9)
• Once on his feet he gave himself a shake. (8)
• He felt the bed shake, she was getting in. (8)
• We drove slowly, so as not to shake his arm. (8)
• They begged Heriot to let them shake his hand. (10)
• It was cruel of me, and well may you shake your head. (10)
• He had said enough to shake the experience of eighteen. (4)
• He could feel her hair shiver with the shake of her head. (8)
• Beaton bowed himself off, without offering to shake hands. (9)
• The crows were the latest to shake the night out of them. (14)
• To be loyal to his son he must just shake her hand and go. (8)
• He tried to shake, and strained in his ponderous garments. (10)
• Swithin withdrew his arm; a desire to shake her seized him. (8)
• We must make them climb a tall tree, and shake them off it. (8)
• Mrs. Berry sighed, and gave him back his shake of the head. (10)
• For he is a good man; but he will not let one shake him off. (10)
• He made no attempt to shake hands, for which I respected him. (8)
• Mr. Ventnor had presence of mind enough not to shake his fist. (8)
• His shake of the head signified that he was not such a noodle. (10)
• Poets could reasonably feign it to shake the desk inclosing it. (10)
• When Austin rose to go Tom begged permission to shake his hand. (10)
• You could never break or shake it, if you were a million to one. (8)
• You may shake my hand any day, like a true man as you are, old Rip! (10)
• But shake the old villain; hang on him and shake him. (10)
• Receiving a shake of the head, Bob Pillin stood by the fire and watched. (8)
• The Colonel was beginning to shake his head again, but Corey hurried on. (9)
• Slowly he begins to shake his head, and mutter, as he moves towards the fire.] (8)
• This done, and after a hearty shake hands, we parted and retired for the night. (6)
• He wanted to take him by one of his furry ears and shake the flesh from his bones. (13)
• She turned to the door; she could not trust herself to shake hands with composure. (10)
• Victor murmured an adieu, grateful for being spared the ceremonial shake of hands. (10)
• He was in the state of the wine when a shake will rouse the sluggish sparkles to foam. (10)
• He gave her one awful shake, dropped his hands, then raised them as though to strike her. (8)
• Men of heroic nerve decline similarly to let explosions shake them, though earth be shaken. (10)
• At the shake which this imparted to the cab, the driver, who had been dozing, turned his head. (8)
• Lennan did his best to answer, but something had closed his throat; he could only shake his head. (8)
• But this was vague, and his hearer needed a present thunder and lightning to shake and pierce him. (10)
• The two fingers given him by his father to shake at parting, had told Wilfrid more than the words. (10)
• Elizabeth was determined; nor did Sir William at all shake her purpose by his attempt at persuasion. (4)
• They shake hands, clapping each other on the back with their lefts, and joining in the general laugh. (9)
• As often as I spoke, that name was enough to shake me off: he had but to utter it, and I became dumb. (10)
• The answer was a vacuous shake of the head, accompanied by an expression of unutterable mournfulness. (10)
• But despair had sunk too deep; she could only quiver and shake and try to drive sobbing out of her breath. (8)
• But should a pauper get so close to us as to lay hold of us, vowing he was once our friend, how shake him loose? (10)
• Humorous writing they will endure, perhaps approve, if it mingles with pathos to shake and elevate the feelings. (10)
• After a long shake of his head and a shrug of his rather high shoulders he snips, goes to the window and opens it. (8)
• She took the pillow up, holding it as if reluctant to shake out the impress of his cheek, dropped it, and turned round. (8)
• She flew downstairs, and flitted swiftly into the room, and fluttered up to Beaton, and gave him a crushing hand- shake. (9)
• A charming congratulatory smile was addressed to him, and a shake of the head of tender reproach irresistible to his vanity. (22)
• It really seemed as if Tinman would be compelled, by the force of circumstances, to go and shake his old friend by the hand. (10)
• In the effort to shake hands with Mrs. Libby she knocked the catalogue out of her hold, and vanished in the crowd without knowing it. (9)
• Irish anecdotes are always popular in England, as promoting, besides the wholesome shake of the sides, a kindly sense of superiority. (10)
• We gave him our hands to shake, and understood, without astonishment, that we were invited on, board his ship to partake of refreshment. (10)
• Happy the passengers who shake off the dust of Edinburgh, and have heard for the last time the cry of the east wind among her chimney-tops! (2)
• His voice had the greatest agility and facility, perfect intonation, a brilliant shake or trill and his breath supply seemed to be inexhaustible. (3)
• Weisspriess followed them across the mountain track, keeping at their heels, though they doubled and adopted all possible contrivances to shake him off. (10)

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