Sentence examples for to shake something from inspiring English sources

Now the dancers scoop the air upward; now they shake their hands downward, as if they were trying to shake something off them.

The young man turned his face aside and looked down into the courtyard, where the birds had intensified their ransacking of the birches and the dogwood trees, as if they were trying to shake something out of them.

Because people will pay attention, and you might just be able to shake something up and make Tim Cook think a little differently as well.

But after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the anti-Muslim whispers turned to shouts, and Shabbir couldn't shake something inside her.

Maybe you plateaued, so shake something up and try something new," she advised.

"On my first day at school in Germany, I experienced something that I never quite managed to shake off, something that accompanied me all of my life," he wrote.

"I said, 'Maybe I can stimulate the motor cortex and cause the mouse to shake, or something.' " Deisseroth showed me a video that re-created the experiment.

Think of the young William Hague before his transformation into statesman and diplomat, or Michael Howard trying to shake off "something of the night".

After all, the idea of shaking something to mix up the contents — in this case a music playlist — is something even a baby can understand.

I'm worried it might have shaken something around up in there, and I wanted to make sure that was addressed in this new abortion law.

The raid shook something loose.