Sentence examples for shaky career from inspiring English sources

After his discharge, Mr. Took began a shaky career as a stand-up comic.

The risk of a British exit after a referendum also makes the commission a shaky career choice.

Known for a writer's block that has continued almost unimpeded for three decades, Ms. Lebowitz occupies a shaky career category: professional wit.

A big problem is that the aggressive marketing of some academic programs leads to heavy enrollment in schools or courses of study with low graduation rates, shaky career prospects or both.

Perhaps the candidates have learned from Mr. Vidal's shaky political career that being clever is not a route to electoral popularity.

Most working mothers must walk the shaky tightrope between career and family, often feeling that they are short-changing one or the other, or, at times, both.

I knew I wanted to become a mother and felt like there would always be an excuse for why it wasn't the right time: my career, shaky finances, small New York City apartment, or not having found the love of my life.

His writing career was shaky and his health precarious.

Bart was part of that Hollywood revolution, but "Infamous Players" is a shaky footnote to his career.

She served for the match against Li for the first time at 5-4 in the second set and played one of the shakier games of her career, losing it with two consecutive double faults.

At the tail end of his career, he got shaky exactly because his taste got, or was made, shaky; when he had good material — as in the tragically underrated album that Bob Gaudio wrote for him, "Watertown" — he was almost as good as ever.