Sentence examples for shakes when the from inspiring English sources

The door shakes when the dog launches itself, its nails scrabbling on the glass.

Here is something else about this farm that sets it apart from farms in, say, Iowa: It shakes when the subway rumbles beneath.

None of the larger four-year colleges on Long Island accepts fewer than 55percentt of its applicants, and SUNY-Stony Brook, Hofstra University and the New York Institute of Technology report that the average SAT scores of their incoming freshmen have risen to 1,158, 1,103 and 1,100, respectively, no great shakes when the national average is 1,019.

Does the body shake when the vehicle hits a bump?

"I did get shaken when the Beatles came out," he recalled.

In the U.K. the political establishment was shaken when the openly antiforeigner British National Party seized two seats in the European Parliament.

But that tradition was shaken when the financial crisis of the late 1990s effectively ended guaranteed lifetime employment.

Most of the fans are parents, and some carry cowbells to shake when the skiers fly by.

But there are some differences, including the likelihood of the stadium shaking when the No. 7 Badgers and the No. 8 Cornhuskers play Saturday night.

Their customers had been badly shaken when the news appeared in the papers that one big laundry had closed and others might do the same.

International confidence in the Palestinian Authority was already shaken when the previous prime minister, Salam Fayyad, an internationally respected economist, resigned in April.