Thesaurus / shakes

shakes

How to use shakes in a sentence

The ground shakes and out from the darkness of the forest plunges a huge buffalo.

Growling horribly, the enraged brute seized poor Pearson and shook him as a terrier dog shakes a rat.

There was the same sniffing and scratching as before, and I felt the tent give a little as when wind shakes it.

The coachman gathers up his reins and shakes squarely down into his seat; the ostlers step back.

She runs up and throws her arms round him, she kisses him and shakes him; the heavy wreath of flowers slips down over his nose.

Demurringly and with deprecating shakes of the head, she begins hanging wreaths about the walls of the room.

It wrung all his soul, it shook him as the tempest shakes a leaf—the sight of this awful agony.

When he thinks he has given an extraordinarily clever impersonation he shakes with laughter.

Though your house trembles in all its timbers and shakes upon its keel, you think yourself a sailor cradled by a zephyr.

When made angry he retires backwards, always facing his assailant, and shakes his head very forcibly.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985