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Example sentences for "shakily"

Lexicographically close words:
shakeh; shaken; shakes; shaketh; shakey; shakin; shakiness; shaking; shakings; shako
  1. The girls laughed a trifle shakily and Evelyn added, "But there's our guardian, you know.

  2. The girls laughed shakily and Mrs. Wescott said, with a gay little laugh, "Here, this will never do.

  3. Another draught of water revived him somewhat, and, after resting a little in the Windsor chair, he mounted the tiny staircase and went shakily to bed.

  4. Observing her movement, the Irish terrier rose also and got shakily upon his legs.

  5. Brooke lifted himself shakily to his feet, and blinked in a curious, heavy fashion at the man.

  6. Then the cars lurched a little, there was a doleful tolling of a bell, and when the long, dusty train rolled slowly into the depot he dropped shakily from a vestibule platform.

  7. Come on, then," said Slyne, and Mr. Jobling got shakily up from the bench.

  8. She got shakily to her feet and stood there swaying a little as outraged muscles reminded her painfully of last night's mad flight.

  9. Finally he rose shakily to his feet and looked down upon the body of his first kill.

  10. Still muttering under his breath Posak got shakily to his feet and turned his back on his companion to pick up the heavy pack.

  11. Before we parted we joined in singing shakily but enthusiastically Down in Bohemia Land.

  12. He sat up shakily and held his roaring head in his hands.

  13. Shakily he produced a cigarette and fumbled for a lighter.

  14. Hassan Khan, in the deepest branch, shakily said to me, 'I not afraid, Mem Sahib.

  15. Shakily he took it in his hand, checked the prime, and began trying to aim at the long drum resting between the musicians.

  16. He stared at it for a moment as though confused, then shakily ran his finger along the diamonds set in the scabbard and the braided gold belt.

  17. Symmes eased open a button of his ornate doublet and shakily loosened his new ruff collar.

  18. Arangbar drew himself up shakily and two eunuchs immediately were at his side, helping him from the white marble throne.

  19. He settled his wine cup shakily on the carpet, jostling red splashes across the Persian design.

  20. He looked up shakily at Arangbar, whose smile was a gloat.

  21. Very slowly and shakily I scrambled to my feet.

  22. I took the latter road, why I can hardly say, and summoning up my almost spent energies I pedalled off shakily between its high hedges.

  23. She seemed drugged, standing shakily in the brilliant sunshine, a glazed stare from her eyes, hands twisting at her skirt.

  24. Now Androv had faltered and was leaning shakily against the open doorway of the module, the right sleeve of his pressure suit covered in blood.

  25. She was shakily rising, pulling her yukata around her.

  26. He moved shakily towards it; looked at it weakly with a working face; then moved shakily back into the dressing-room again, and sat down suddenly on one of the richly cushioned chairs.

  27. After some delay, during which my heart sank, and I quite gave up Uncle Silas, the aged little servant-man opened the door, and trotted shakily down the steps to the carriage side.

  28. As he pulled himself out of bed and shakily made his way into the kitchen to start the coffee, he was trying to decide where to begin.

  29. Shakily he removed the scarf that had been holding his head and turned around.

  30. He got up from the couch and walked shakily across the floor to the desk.

  31. Biff came up shakily behind the wheel, found that the jeep would still run, and backed it so the headlights shone full on the tiger.

  32. Biff lurched forward, found the front doors and stepped shakily from the pagoda cabinet to find one person in the dim light of the warehouse waiting, grinning, to receive him.

  33. It was a few seconds later when he rose shakily to his feet and mechanically set the engine-room telegraphs to "stop.

  34. Mottin rose shakily on one leg, feeling as if the ankle of the other was being drilled with red-hot needles, and swore at the black horse as it galloped with trailing bridle down the long stubble field towards Soberton Down.

  35. John rose shakily with an uncertain smile on his lips.

  36. He stood up shakily and rubbed a bruised knee.

  37. Nancy, groping for his handkerchief, battling with tears, feeling his kiss on her wet cheek, laughed shakily in the dark.

  38. Nancy smiled as she dried her eyes, and dried Anne's, and the children laughed shakily as she exhibited the sooty handkerchief.

  39. He had so often imagined meeting her, and had so longed to meet her, that he was actually a little confused, and wanted shakily to laugh, and to cling to her.

  40. He got shakily to his feet and went towards the hall.

  41. Against the ropes," he would stammer shakily as he gathered himself together again, sniffling into his beautiful handkerchief.

  42. The old man arose shakily and, with a string of Dutch and Zulu maledictions on his supposed enemies, put a trembling, withered hand on the policeman's sleeve.

  43. Ellis then drew the attention of the Court to the case of old Hiram Bryan, who had shakily given his evidence during the trial.

  44. She walked shakily to the table and put down a briefcase, one end of which was smudged with dirt.

  45. Climbing shakily out of the chair, Frieda stumbled to the picture window and peered out beside Edmund.

  46. He seemed not to hear; he seemed not to see the Colonel, shakily hovering about the fire, pushing aside the green wood and adding a few sticks of dry.

  47. Kaviak climbed timidly, shakily out, and stood in the middle of the floor in his bare feet.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shakily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    delicately; fitfully; jerkily; spasmodically; weakly