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Example sentences for "shaky"

Lexicographically close words:
shaking; shakings; shako; shakos; shaku; shal; shalbe; shalbee; shale; shales
  1. You'll have to take my arm," he remarked; "you are only shaky yet.

  2. They are unable even to totter to the old pew in the house of God, so weak and shaky is their poor human frame; aye, but they shall 'mount up with wings as eagles.

  3. He was shaky on his legs and half tumbled from his box to the window-sill, along which he walked trembling till he came to the tassel of the shade, just within his reach.

  4. As soon as Adolphus had retired (with undissembled contempt of the shaky signature) I tore open the packet, and as I drew out a letter a tiny box dropped on the table.

  5. Eleanor spied the precious bags too close to the tracks to insure their safety, so she rushed over to save them from disaster--for who could tell whether that shaky old train would hold together much longer!

  6. Professor Campbell, Professor Meiklejohn, Leslie Stephen, Lang, Gosse, and a very shaky one from Hamerton.

  7. The family is all very shaky in health, but our motto is now Al Monte!

  8. She was still feeling very shaky and very weak.

  9. I felt just a little shaky at first, but the captain gave me a cup of cocoa when I came on board, and I feel now as if I were fit for duty again.

  10. He is so shaky and he seems so ill--I mean in mind and spirit more than in body.

  11. By cable, little comrade," he said, with a shaky gaiety that betrayed the tension of his nerves.

  12. He walked on, buttoning his fur coat with shaky fingers, passed the doorway and stepped out into the falling snow.

  13. When he had unrolled and wiped his gun he drew a shaky chair to the pine table and sat down.

  14. Major, "you're white and shaky as a ninety-nine-cent toy lamb.

  15. The bluecoats looked curiously at the man in the green ulster whose face was the colour of clay and who lit cigarette from cigarette with a shaky hand.

  16. We're too few and too shaky on our pins to stand any more.

  17. It made a rather shaky but perfectly possible bridge, if not for Fauvette, at least for Raymonde.

  18. Like most ancient buildings, the old hall, while preserving its principal rooms in good repair, was growing shaky in the upper stories.

  19. There were seven of them--a Corporal and three men belonging to one of the new short service battalions and three signallers--very shaky the whole lot.

  20. Shortly afterwards I was standing in a bay feeling rather shaky when a face suddenly appeared over the top.

  21. Their rickety engines set the pace for the fleet, and unless the Olympia wishes to abandon the shaky old hulks to their fate, she must keep step with them.

  22. The shaky little house hung like a chance knot in an endless wire in the middle of the glittering double row of rails that stretched from east to west across the flowery prairie.

  23. The Second Mate," he said, in a shaky sort of voice.

  24. The Skipper and the Second Mate were shouting to the men upon the yard, and I heard them answer, in shaky voices.

  25. Having had nothing to start with, he could drink frankly, and a shaky hand could be trusted to spill any over-generous portions.

  26. Following this sentence was a blank space wherein was rudely drawn a curious geometrical design, some of the shaky lines--intended most probably to be straight--bearing numbers.

  27. The words of warning inscribed there in large, uneven letters, shaky in places as though penned by an aged hand, stood out from the time-stained vellum page like capitals of fire.

  28. The shaky lines, intended to be straight, were mostly numbered, as though denoting paces distant.

  29. To aim "straight at" a moving object is the way to miss it, and if the aim is taken for thirty seconds the hand gets so shaky that a miss is certain, but most marvellous thing in literature, the hero does miss.

  30. The church bell was rung in the shaky edifice, and the emaciated colonists assembled and heard the "zealous and sorrowful prayer" of Chaplain Buck.

  31. It mended up the shaky old heart-pump five years ago, and I hope will again.

  32. As late as June 26 he wrote, with shaky handwriting but indomitable spirit, to relieve his old friend from the anxiety he must feel from the newspaper bulletins.

  33. Ellen's smile rewarded him for this blindly assured speech, well as she knew how shaky was the foundation on which he might be standing.

  34. She brought their faces together and achieved a simultaneous kiss with a shaky laugh.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shaky" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.