Sentence examples for a small shake of from inspiring English sources

He gave a small shake of the head.

Another is "a small shake of the head, like a bidder at an auction responding in the negative when the auctioneer meets his eyes as a way of asking whether he wants to top a bid that has just topped his".

On cue, my heart skipped a beat and my head swam for half a second, and then my frequently sought out lie slipped out as a small shake of my head.

The laminar shear box described in this paper was designed to overcome the base shear limitations of a small shaking table at The University of Western Ontario.

Even from this distance, more than a decade later, the actor is prone to give a small, sad shake of the head at that story.

The purpose of this paper is to develop an approach to improve the tracking characteristics of a small-scale shaking table, which is used in an active structural control system.

OSLO — Sunday was a day of remembrance and self-examination for Norway, a small country shaken by the massacre of at least 93 of its people, many of them children, by one of its own.

For all of the above substrates, a small disturbance (light shaking of the reaction flask) at the beginning of the reaction results in POBA lamellar morphology with the c-axis vertical to the surface, showing that early-stage nucleation determines morphology and orientation of the POBA crystal growth.

The first recorded Illinois earthquake is from 1795, when a small earthquake shook the frontier settlement of Kaskaskia.

Shake a small amount of powder into the lid of your powder container.

Simply shake a small amount of baking soda into a bowl, wet your toothbrush, then dip the bristles into the baking soda to coat.