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How to use shakes in a sentence

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When I approach to thank him for the dance, he clasps my hand and shakes it vigorously, beaming appreciation.
For summer rain, trellising can be covered with shingles, shakes, reed fencing bamboo, window screens, louvers, canvas, glass or plastic.
Mark shakes his head and looks away, running a finger up the stem of his empty wine glass.
A sad guy in a blue parka shakes his head and pushes a folded bill across the counter.
There is a whole industry catering for old saddos who get the shakes if they don't have their daily fix of a sherbet dib-dab.
Ask a civil servant whether Tony Blair ever squares up to George Bush and a weak smile crosses the mouth and the head shakes sadly.
When someone shakes a soft drink can before opening it, then pulls the tab, the contents spurt out.
They talk for a moment, scuff their feet, and eventually shakes hands and smile.
If you've been scared off Atkins, confused by the latest macrobiotic diet or are fed up with protein shakes, don't despair.
There are vegetable spring rolls, sandwiches, burgers, dosas and milk shakes to make it a sumptuous eat for all.
All serious race cars have the prop shaft balanced, otherwise it shakes the car to bits.
Mention asylum seekers and he shakes his fist at all those foreigners on the scrounge.
This is the type of album that grabs you by the scruff of the neck, shakes you about a lot, and never once lets up on the fury which drives it.
When he gets a properly written scene he seizes it by the scruff of the neck and shakes the juices out of it with Doberman ferocity.
But Topsy smacks the dogs off the bed frame, shakes the filthy blankets and beckons me to sit and wait.
He has the voice that shakes the very frame of the universe and makes you wish to be unborn.
These shakes, and similar products, offer a quick way to chug some extra calories without having to belly up to the dining table yet again.
That scream from the treetops is answered by another, and another, until the tropical forest shakes under a thundering bellow.
Seriously, this is one of the half dozen scenes in the series that shakes me to my core every single time I watch it.
So, he breaks down the film to include six shorter stories, each delivered with one hard punch that shakes you in your seat.
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Examples from Classical Literature
With expostulatory shakes of the head and indignant glances I called his attention to the fact that I was not alone.
I was down stairs in three shakes, and I went through a waiter like a halfback to do it.
Conan shook his head as a lion shakes its mane and growled his unsatiated blood-lust.
Skeeter ate three cream puffs and two ice cream cones after the show and washed them down with a couple of chocolate milk shakes.
Then they gets up and shakes theirselves till the bus jerks them back again, and there they are, a more 'opeless 'EAP than ever.
In July he shakes EIS foreigners off and comes up here for six weeks' vacant pottering in his orchard.
Go near that horrid old man who fastens one rheumy eye on you while his slobbery chin shakes like a huge jelly?
The shakes were split very thin, for sugar pine is among the most cleavable woods of this country.
He shakes his fist in Gaius's face and yells opinions and comments.
Here, however, the acclaimed thespian shakes off the shackles of Middle Earth, icebergs and bricklaying, and tries his hand at satirical comedy.
Sometimes I think there are a great many women behind, and sometimes only one, and she crawls around fast, and her crawling shakes it all over.
I tingle again from head to foot as my recollection turns that corner, and my pen shakes in my hand.
Crouching, Matthew takes off his bandanna and shakes out a fulvous mane of dreadlocked hair, like some minor Rastafarian deity.
The whole building just shakes and buzzes when we get fairly started.
Then in the very bright spots she keeps still, and in the very shady spots she just takes hold of the bars and shakes them hard.
Savoyard puts his head on one side, shakes it, and strokes his mice.
The odor sacs also seem to play a role in expressive wing shakes directed toward bats outside the harem territory.
If they move him at all, it is only to a quiet smile, as he shakes his hair a little more loosely about his face.
Another peculiarity of the Finlander is that he never shakes hands.
Mr. flam shakes his fist at Theodore Fog, and calls him an Abolitionist!
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