Sentence examples for that shucks from inspiring English sources

The John McCain crusade revealed yet again -- as the Bradley campaign might have, had there been one -- that a fast-growing minority hungers for an independent-minded political movement that shucks musty ideological litmus tests and playbooks.

Penny-Arcade reminds us that, shucks, some things in life areminds important, more deserving of the adjective "appalling," and that, my goodness, a 9.3 is a fine score by any measuse.

But I soon realized that shucking dozens of tea bags out of their little envelopes would be a mind-numbing task.

Down South, they didn't have to do all that shucking and jiving.

Tempers flared in the eighth inning Saturday when Astros reliever Travis Blackley, after picking off J.B. Shuck at first, tagged Shuck so hard to complete a rundown that Shuck nearly fell to the ground.

The key is just spitting out prewritten talking points and showing that, aw shucks, you're just another hockey mom from the heartland of America who is "just like us".

That "shuck and jive" dates back to the 1870s and, says the dictionary, was an "originally southern 'Negro' expression for clowning, lying, pretence".

It is that aw-shucks persona that bolsters Tebow's popularity — part everyman, part saint.

A major hurdle is that 10,000 shucked and ground-up mussels are needed to distill a single gram of the protein.

"When I tell people that I shuck oysters, I highly doubt they picture this," she said, with a nod toward the mirror.

What the country will see is a wholly unfamiliar Lions team, one that has shucked the expectation that it would fail and replaced it with the kind of confidence that is the foundation of winning teams.