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How to use shaker in a sentence

26 example sentences · noun

Shaker means a person or thing that shakes, or by means of which something is shaken. Example: “Jocelyn played the shakers while her boyfriend played the acoustic guitar.”

Examples of shaker by meaning

nounA musical percussion instrument filled with granular solids which produce a rhythmic sound when shaken.

  • Jocelyn played the shakers while her boyfriend played the acoustic guitar.

More sentences with shaker

  • He really is a mover and a shaker in those circles.From the entry mover and shaker
  • My mother has a very phallic salt shaker.From the entry phallic
  • The sales team sought to talk to the movers and shakers within an organization, rather than to their underlings.From the entry mover and shaker
  • Any politician's statements must be taken with a grain of salt, but his need to be taken with a whole shaker of salt.From the entry salt
  • Eraser dust can be purchased in a shaker can or in a cleaning pad.2012, Dennis Dorn, Mark Shanda, Drafting for the Theatre, →ISBN, page 34. From the entry eraser dust
  • Ray was a hand shaker in world full of quick-to-kiss men.2009, David Henry Sterry; R. J. Martin, Jr., Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys, →ISBN. From the entry hand shaker
  • Can't be from Mom, the world-class go-getter, hand shaker, and baby kisser.”2008, Ellen Hopkins, Identical, →ISBN, page 31. From the entry go-getter
  • About one second after the first officer acknowledged the go-around, the stick shaker (stall warning) activated.1999 April 15, Transportation Safety Board of Canada, “1.1 History of the Flight”, in Aviation Investigation Report A97H0011, Loss of…. From the entry stall
  • During the initial incubation bottles incubed aerobically are agitated on a rotary shaker.1993, Gail L. Woods, Yezid Gutierrez, Diagnostic Pathology of Infectious Diseases, page 576. From the entry incube
  • Patronizing the cafe, she quickly became familiar with the non-functioning salt shakers and the catsupless ketchup bottles.1928 May, “The Adventures of Goldilocks”, in The Pioneer […], 6th annual publication, Sacramento, Calif.: Associated Students of…. From the entry catsupless
  • This refeeder is attached to the shaker and has much the same motion.1908, Bulletin, numbers 79-115, page 27. From the entry refeeder
  • Every group has its movers and shakers.2024 June 1, Logan Mind, Emotional Intelligence for Social Success: Enhance Your Relationship Skills. Practical Strategies to Communicate…. From the entry who's who in the zoo
  • I sat there and watched as he carefully salted down his beer glass from the shaker on the table.2014 August 16, Steve Vernon, “There’s Truth in Cheap Draft Beer”, in Not Just Any Old Ghost Story (Steve Vernon’s Sea Tales; 7), Stark…. From the entry salt down
  • So I backed up to the spot and the fireman and I jumped off with pick and shaker bar.2013, Canadian Folk: Portraits of Remarkable Lives, by Peter Unwin, Dundum, →ISBN. From the entry sectionman
  • I hit the wolf on the head with the pick and fireman Grier hit it with the shaker bar.2013, Canadian Folk: Portraits of Remarkable Lives, by Peter Unwin, Dundum, →ISBN. From the entry sectionman
  • The piece was an eighteenth-century silver muffineer, or sugar shaker.2009, Briann G. Greenfield, Out of the Attic: Inventing Antiques in Twentieth-century New England. From the entry muffineer
  • An Alumnus gave me my first job sellin' cars supposedly but I was just a showpiece, a hand shaker.2008, Don Bill, Powers Trace, →ISBN, page 38. From the entry hand shaker
  • The disentrained solids are conveyed through a two-stage shaker screen to remove most of the fine glass and other inerts.1977, Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1977. From the entry disentrained
  • Cold and grim sat that malevolent brute the furnace, greedy, bottomless—its grate bars clenched over clinkers which no shaker could dislodge.1944, Emily Carr, “Dew and Alarm Clocks”, in The House of All Sorts. From the entry clinker
  • As the dinner waned, hands reached for the pepper cruet rather than for the shaker of Attic salt.1907 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Country of Elusion”, in The Trimmed Lamp […] , New York: McClure, Phillips &…. From the entry Attic salt
  • Unlike punta rock, paranda music is totally unplugged, played on wooden Garifuna drums, acoustic guitars and primitive percussion instruments, such as shakers and turtle shells.2016, Alex Egerton, Paul Harding, Lonely Planet Belize, →ISBN. From the entry paranda
  • It's best served arctic cold, so shake the vodka until your hands are stuck to the shaker by a layer of frost.2015 October 6, Katie Webster, Maple: 100 Sweet and Savory Recipes Featuring Pure Maple Syrup, Quirk Books, →ISBN. From the entry mapletini
  • Jeeves entered, bearing a tray on which were glasses and a substantial shaker filled to the brim with the juice of the juniper berry.1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XXI. From the entry bimbos
  • The two DJs who I'd seen at that Latics club event turned out to be real grand fromages of the scene, movers, shakers, opinion formers, revered figures.2003, Stuart Maconie, “Out on the Floor”, in Cider With Roadies, London: Ebury Publishing, →ISBN, page 69. From the entry grand fromage
  • It has given birth to boisterous palm pounders, tin-sheet shakers and shillabers on the right hand, and to nose wrinklers, tongue stickers and loud sneezers on the left.1921, George Jean Nathan, The theatre, the drama, the girls, page 86. From the entry wrinkler

Meaning of shaker

  1. noun A person or thing that shakes, or by means of which something is shaken.
  2. noun A container from which granular condiments are shaken so as to be sprinkled onto food.
  3. noun A variety of pigeon.

Full definition of shaker

Questions about shaker in a sentence

How do you use shaker in a sentence?
Shaker is used as a noun. For example: “Jocelyn played the shakers while her boyfriend played the acoustic guitar.”
What is a short sentence with shaker?
“Every group has its movers and shakers.”
What does shaker mean?
Shaker means a person or thing that shakes, or by means of which something is shaken.

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