The phrase "as a shaker" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is identified or described by their role or function, particularly in a metaphorical sense related to making changes or influencing situations.
Example: "In the world of finance, she is known as a shaker, always pushing for innovative solutions and challenging the status quo."
Alternatives: "as an influencer" or "as a mover".
The dish is as well crafted as a Shaker table, sturdy yet elegant in its countrified way, and thoroughly satisfying.
"I've also heard it referred to as a Shaker village, but to me it's more of an industrial compound, a think tank where things are being built even if you're not sure what they are.
The lessons from Olson are there, but assimilated, and poems like "The Rick of Green Wood," "The Hide of My Mother" and "On the Debt My Mother Owed to Sears Roebuck" are as distinctly American and austere and lovely in design as a Shaker cabinet.
Asked about favorite restaurants, he mentioned Chez Panisse, whose dining room conforms to a spare Arts and Crafts aesthetic; Tadich's, the 150-year-old San Francisco fish house, where most customers eat at the bar; and Harry's Bar in Venice, which has a style as understated as a Shaker common room.
Recently I was considering some details for a house, and had the bright idea of eliminating that baseboard in favor of a simple beautiful linear gap — which would look great if every other piece of carpentry in the house were aligned as perfectly as a Shaker barn.
After removing the cylinder, they subjected the staples to fast, 30-Hertz vibrations on a device technically known as a shaker and measured how long it took for the mound to collapse.
Serve the crushed peppers in a food shaker such as a pepper shaker.
Markovits builds this novel out of straight-plank prose, its lines and structure as pleasingly solid and clean as those of a Shaker chair.
Mr. Cuomo, the lead singer and guitarist for the rock band Weezer, billed the song as "Variations on a Shaker Hymn".
"I need to find another lover," a man in a lavender shirt sighed; ice clattered in a shaker as another cocktail was poured with luxuriant slowness.
My advice: premix gin and vodka martinis in distinctly shaped pitchers, so that you can distinguish between the two quickly, and ice the drinks in a shaker as the orders come in.
