Sentence examples for vigorous handshake from inspiring English sources

Mr. Bush arrived at the medical center shortly before 8 a.m., when he strode toward the White House physician, Richard A. Tubb, and gave him a vigorous handshake.

A peripatetic entertainer who boasts of having logged 61 performances on Johnny Carson's "Tonight" show, Buck greets people with an exaggerated arm-pumping parody of Kreskin's vigorous handshake.

Siegel, a trim fifty-six-year-old with a wide smile, thick eyebrows, and a vigorous handshake, was dressed in a polo shirt and khakis on the afternoon that I met him.

Mr. Xi greeted Mr. Panetta with a vigorous handshake and a broad smile, and he said the meeting "would be very helpful in further advancing" ties between the United States and China.

The goalkeeper, on loan from Sunderland, was so impressed by Clyde's third goal that he pursued the scorer, Jackie Chalmers, all the way down the other end and gave him a vigorous handshake.

Bash his head to hear Robert's pre-programmed set of loaded questions which you're bound to get wrong because there is no right answer, then clasp his furry little electrode-filled paw for a "shockingly" vigorous handshake!

Vigorous handshakes were in order.

All of the usual awards ceremony sights were on show: the vigorous handshakes of the victors, the rictus smiles of the trounced and the woozy inebriation of the other patrons.

The Russian astronauts making up Captain Shepherd's crew, Lt. Col. Yuri P. Gidzenko of the air force and Sergei K. Krikalev, a civilian, met their first visitors since arriving on the station five weeks ago with handshakes followed by vigorous hugs.

Dr. Perkins and Mr. Valdez both recall their first handshake: he was a vigorous pumper, she says; she was the one who was pumping, says he. Either way, they bumped the friend's glass, spilling her drink onto her dress.

And if, at the age of 86, the old movie actor still looks the image of vigorous good health, the truth is that the man behind the firm handshake and barely gray hair is steadily, surely ebbing away.