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How to use the word Shake in a Sentence?

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I was just trying to get to the handshake line and shake hands and be grateful that my team was in that position, all the credit in the world to LSU. They were tremendous. They deserve it. They had a tremendous season.

Caitlin Clark

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I told Christian, ‘We have a problem, you need to stop traveling, you need to focus on the workers,’ i wanted to protect the integrity of the ALU, so I kept it internal, but some of the challenges that I was arguing with him about started to really shake the foundation of the ALU.

Heather Goodall

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are some politicians out there who are like, ‘Let me get in a photo with some Asian people. Let me walk through Chinatown, shake hands with a few Asian community leaders and that’s it. I got the Asian vote,’ no. You actually need to be in tune with what this demographic needs.

Forrest Liu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They expect to meet the candidates, shake their hands and look them in the eye, that’s the beauty of the first-in-the-nation caucus. It would be unwise to overlook the power of retail politics here.

Jeanita McNulty

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This was not acceptable. I understand we’re in the middle of a pandemic. I understand we’re building the plane while it’s still in the air, but you can’t do this, it did shake my faith. It shook my faith in how these decisions were being made.

Paul Offit

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Autumn when the trees shake loose their garments and we bundle in our own.

Laura Jaworski

added by anonymous
1 year ago

I think it's important for the whole country that Iowa keep its first in the nation, we Iowans, I mean, really uniquely have set very high expectations for every candidate. We Iowans's a state with a size and a geography that you can do great retail politics. So everybody expects that they're going to have an opportunity to actually look their candidate in the eye, shake their hand, ask them a question.

Linda Upmeyer

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

There was a lot of familiar stuff in there that her and I had talked about, like, ‘ Dave Coulier shake is like a fish. ’ I ’d go, ‘ Hey, dead fish me, ’ and we ’d do this dead fish handshake.

Dave Coulier

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

[ContraPest] is a ‘milk shake’ for rats. It is a liquid formulation that is high in fat, sweet tasting and very attractive to rats, which need to consume approximately 10 percent of their body weight in water each day.

Ken Siegel

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I wouldn’t go and shake his hand, until Saudi Arabia makes a radical change in terms of its human rights, I wouldn’t want anything to do with him.

Adam Schiff

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I just said,' I can't shake this depression. I just feel so like I can't get up from playing spider solitaire,' he says,' I've got just the thing a prescription for you.' Oh, goody, one more pill.

Marjorie Schurman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The( conspiracy) label will be difficult for( Sharif) to shake off, corruption allegations( against Shehbaz Sharif) will persist, and it is inevitable that regular Pakistanis will tire of the prime minister's office being treated as a family heirloom between brothers.

Hassan Kamal

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Themost important thing that hashappened since our last on-airdiscussion, someone has beenindicted and has pled guilty totrying to shake down my familybased on this pile of lies, soI ’m not going to allow it tohinder me.I ’m going to continue theimportant work that I do here in the Congress for myconstituents.

Matt Gaetz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I'm overwhelmed to the point that I had to leave work, i tell Darla Neal I should be able to shake this off and deal with it. Yet here I am, a mess.

Darla Neal

Found on CNN
2 years ago

No, you know, I really thought I was going to be back. That was the feeling I got at the end of the year and in the exit meetings. Then it was a phone call from [coach] Arthur Smith, Sunday before everything went down, saying that he didn’t know how things were gonna shake out this week, making me aware of what was going on, and I appreciated it. He was honest. At that point, it was kinda wrapping your head around that. There’s disappointment and frustration for sure that sets in at that point.

Indianapolis Colts

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You could drop me in the Bush administration, and I'd feel right at home, gen Z and many conservatives of my age are looking for someone to shake up the system, but not to burn the country down in the process.

Christopher Trzaska

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We need those who can violently shake the world in a gentle way, not those who gently shake it in a violent way.

Goa Kerle

added by Goa_
2 years ago

you look your woman in the eye and kill her by telling her the truth or you turn away and let her see what she wants. i try not to shake too much when i turn the lights out and the sobbing begins

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

Six days ago, Russia's Vladimir Putin sought to shake the very foundations of the free world, thinking he could make it bend to menacing ways — but he badly miscalculated, he thought he could roll into Ukraine and the world would roll over. Instead, he met with a wall, a wall of strength he never anticipated or imagined—he met the Ukrainian people.

President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Six days ago, Russia's Vladimir Putin sought to shake the very foundations of the free world, thinking he could make it bend to his menacing ways. But he badly miscalculated. He thought he could roll into Ukraine and the world would roll over, instead, he met with… a wall of strength he never anticipated or imagined. He met the Ukrainian people and President Zelenskyy.

President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Six days ago, Russia’s Vladimir Putin sought to shake the foundations of the free world thinking he could make it bend to his menacing ways.But he badly miscalculated, he thought he could roll into Ukraine and the world would roll over.Instead he met a wall of strength he never anticipated or imagined.He met the Ukrainian people.

Joe Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There are a lot of people who have gravitated towards the governor's leadership and the fact that the economy's doing extremely well in Make America Florida, there are many people who like his Covid policies and the free state of Make America Florida. But there's an eternity until the presidential election of 2024 and there will be a lot of things that will shake out between now and then.

Francis Suarez

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Not shaking hands, that's typical of our country right now, instead of solving the problem, let's make an excuse and let's see if we can just instead of, confronting and demanding that it changes, let's eliminate it so that we don't have those problems. Let's try to do that. That's perfect us right now, that's not perfect me. That's not happening here. So if some team doesn't want to shake hands, you're gonna see 15 of my guys walk down and shake air. We're going to shake air and I'm gonna to shake air and then we're gonna leave.

Tom Izzo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In today's world where many countries waste time dealing with The United States with submission and blind obedience, there's only our country on this planet that can shake the world by firing a missile with the The United States mainland in its range, there are more than 200 countries in the world, but only a few have hydrogen bombs, intercontinental ballistic missiles, and hypersonic missiles.

The United

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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