Shake

The earthquake shook the building.

He shook the can of soda for thirty seconds before delivering it to me, so that, when I popped it open, soda went everywhere.

Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and now seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.

Shaking his head, he kept repeating “No, no, no”.

I became alſo a reproch vnto them: when they looked vpon me, they ſhaked their heads.

to shake fruit down from a tree

[…]Shake off the golden ſlumber of repoſe;[…]

But indeed this Shame was a bold Villain; I could ſcarce ſhake him out of my company; [...]

Her father’s death shook her terribly.

He was shaken by what had happened.

Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.

I can’t shake the feeling that I forgot something.

She shook with grief.

The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.

OK, let’s shake on it.

She was shaking it on the dance floor.

to shake a note in music

The experience shook my religious belief.

The story of Ms. He and her mother began in the early 1960s, shortly before the Cultural Revolution shook China.

The cat gave the mouse a shake.

She replied in the negative, with a shake of her head.

And when the princely Perſean Diadem, Shall ouerweigh his wearie witleſſe head, And fall like mellowed fruit, with ſhakes of death, In faire Perſea noble Tamburlain Shall be my Regent, and remaine as King:

The snake did the frug, the monkey did the shake. The crowd, mostly young couples, tourists and kids, loved it.

[…] most suppliers will allow up to 120 grams of shake to a kilo, or 12 percent; kilo-level buyers are usually unhappy if they find more.

“And do you realize that in a few shakes I've got to show up at dinner and have Mrs Cream being very, very kind to me? It hurts the pride of the Woosters, Jeeves.”

Empty casks are[…]taken to pieces, and the staves closely packed up in a cylindrical form, constituting what are called shakes or packs

A Signora Rossinuola, with the face of a goddess, and the voice of an angel, made her first curtsy that evening to the Neapolitans. She was received with the most rapturous applause. Nothing was heard of next day but her shake and her smile.

As long as I had seen Mr Holdsworth in the rooms at the little inn at Hensleydale, where I had been accustomed to look upon him as an invalid, I had not been aware of the visible shake his fever had given to his health.

Most of the fission energy was released in the last few generations, so if the device blew itself apart before about fifty-seven shakes had elapsed, […]