Sentence examples for rather shaken from inspiring English sources

I have huge affection for the country—far more for its constitutional ideals than I do for my native Britain's but, I must say, I came back rather shaken.

Mr Rudd is of course entitled to his opinion, though one's faith in his aesthetic judgment - never exactly strong to begin with, given the club-footed banality of his apologia to the Australian Aboriginal population - was rather shaken by his quote.

"... We're all rather shaken," he said.

Later, at the advertisers' lunch, Mr. Rather shook nearly every hand and was almost playful at times.

But I think I'd rather shake the Dalai Lama's hand and not play in China than the other way around".

I used to have bowling banquets, but people decided they'd rather shake hands at the last game and go home.

Some professionals would rather shake hands with a rattlesnake then play in a field with 384 amateurs, some with suspect handicaps, flailing away on four golf courses for four of the five days.

In terms of results, Agnes Szavay's lopsided 6-0, 6-4 upset of the third-seeded Venus Williams was the most significant of the day, but Rezai's 7-6 (7-3), 6-2 victory over De Brito was the match that will linger in memory, as will the cursory handshake afterward, in which De Brito tapped Rezai's extended palm rather shake it.

The kind of upstart who might take his martini stirred rather than shaken.

And because the drink is meant to be "elegant, like a lady," Ms. Dorman said, it is stirred rather than shaken.

Sutcliff's implicit view – that friendship necessarily trumps tribal enmity – has been rather severely shaken by a half-century of post-colonial bloodshed.