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Example sentences for "shaken"

Lexicographically close words:
shak; shake; shaked; shakedown; shakeh; shakes; shaketh; shakey; shakily; shakin
  1. Already I could have rushed from the factory, shaken its dust from my feet, and with hands over ears shut out the horrid din that inexorably cried louder than human speech.

  2. The body was shaken with it; the ears strained.

  3. Left alone to battle with the world, she might have shaken out some of her dullness, but the butcher for many years had stood between her and reality, casting a still deeper shadow on her ignorance.

  4. His servant had been kept in the fortress because the kind-hearted man had shaken hands with a relative whom he met among the hapless wretches.

  5. During the evening he wished the minister's wife good-night.

  6. Some old political papers of the Great Rebellion, and a monkey's skull, not exhibited to any anatomist, are said to have been discovered under the floor of the lobby, or of one of the rooms.

  7. Your courage has indeed been shaken out of you,' said Thorgaut, 'but I am not going to fall dead for such talk.

  8. However, they found the house "noisy," the windows were apt to be violently shaken at night and steps used to be heard where no steps should be.

  9. To have the bones shaken to pieces by a constant change of those hacks was a luxury for the rich--the poor were under the necessity of using the mode of conveyance with which nature had provided them.

  10. The Duke was prepared for this burst of indignation, and he was not shaken by it.

  11. Before she could say anything more, he had shaken hands with Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose and was gone.

  12. Luncheon over, everything had to be washed, and securely packed, but despite all our previous care we found some of our china had been sorely smashed, and the biscuits shaken to perfect powder.

  13. He still looked singed and shaken from his rough experience, but as he saw Ralph he extended his hand, and gave his young favorite a twist that almost made Ralph wince.

  14. Ralph was shaken a trifle by the unexpected interruption.

  15. They would gladly have shaken off his yoke, and were privately working for his overthrow, that they might have the "raynes louse" again.

  16. Having shaken themselves free, to a large extent at least, from the control of the State, they were not prepared to put their neck under the yoke of an ecclesiastical authority which even the best men of the age had ceased to venerate.

  17. Although our attention has been arrested by painful interest in passing events, yet our country feels no more than the slight vibrations of the convulsions which have shaken Europe.

  18. The roar of the river was very impressive now, and the man's voice had shown that he was shaken by some strong emotion which was not personal fear.

  19. Hetty rose, hiding the effort it cost her, and when he had shaken up the cedar twigs into a softer cushion sank gratefully down on them.

  20. The fight in the valley and the dreadful things she had seen and heard at nightfall had shaken her nerves.

  21. But the vicar was somewhat loth to be shaken off.

  22. May accordingly ascended the door-steps, and her hand was shaken most warmly, first by Miss Webster, and then by Miss Eliza.

  23. Webster, smiling, after they had shaken hands and Kathleen Weir had once more sank down on the satin couch from which she had risen at his entrance.

  24. Some had shaken their heads over it, and wished it might end well.

  25. Their frame is neither shaken nor enervated by the use of intoxicating liquor; they eat when hungry, and sleep when nature demands it.

  26. I thought the jolting would have shaken me literally to pieces, so I sang out "Halt!

  27. Large boulders, that looked as if shaken down by an earthquake, stood near one another.

  28. Eastward, however, there has been immense degradation; half the dome has been shaken down and washed away; while a succession of upheavals and earthquakes has contorted the strata in the strangest manner.

  29. He had shaken off the dim monstrous visions which had momentarily haunted him, and was his exuberant self again.

  30. The government was yet far too powerful to be shaken by such a small uprising, but the revolt of Oshio has gained its place in history as a sign of the growing decay and unpopularity of the Edo administration.

  31. In the meanwhile the first stirrings of the war that was to come had already shaken Uruguay.

  32. The two did not move or speak till he gave a sudden, shaken laugh.

  33. The excitement that had held and swayed him was leaving him now, and he looked shaken and weak.

  34. The boy answered her small, shaken whisper solemnly, as if he were taking a formal and irrevocable vow, but there was no one to listen to it here, and bear witness to it as irrevocable.

  35. They then leave the rose-bushes; some of them slowly creeping down the stem, and others rolling up and dropping off, especially when the bushes are shaken by the wind.

  36. He shook the thought off him as he would have shaken a snake.

  37. He moved and let Baroni rise; shaken and bruised, but otherwise little seriously hurt, and still holding, in a tenacious grasp, the crumpled paper.

  38. You're looking better," remarked Miss Ri, after they had shaken hands.

  39. The prince told her of the circumstances under which he gave the box to her father, and informed her of the secret that whenever the fan would be shaken he would make his appearance.

  40. After many Himalayas of sandesa had been shaken out, the handi was taken possession of by the Zemindar, and the Brahman was insulted and driven out of the house.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shaken" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    agitated; bothered; chaotic; confused; crushed; dashed; discomposed; disconcerted; disordered; disorganized; disquieted; disturbed; electrified; embarrassed; excited; feverish; fidgety; flustered; jumbled; jumpy; nervous; nervy; overcome; perplexed; perturbed; prostrate; restless; shaken; shocked; shook; shot; shuffled; staggered; startled; stricken; troubled; troublous; turbulent; undone; uneasy; unmanned; unnerved; unquiet; unsettled; unstrung; upset