How to Use the shakes in a Sentence
the shakes
noun-
That's when the shakes must have come in.
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EW.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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Hopefully, many will share the shakes, too.
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Amy Drew Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
5 Mar. 2026
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That said, Pierce might command a huge salary, and the 49ers still have the shakes after their last two big-money deals for wideouts.
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Matt Barrows,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2026
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Resist The Urge To Stir Caramelizing dry sugar gives many bakers the shakes.
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Josh Miller,
Southern Living,
23 Aug. 2025
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Wearing a hoodie and with an extreme case of the shakes, Glynn-Carney’s George seems less like a lawyer than an addict, or a delinquent.
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Demetrios Matheou,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Nov. 2025
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Since the market re-opened late in 2025, drawing thousands of customers eager for the shakes and baked goods, the owners decided to keep it open an extra month this spring.
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Connie Ogle,
Miami Herald,
22 Apr. 2026
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Maddie Eisler, a Manhattan Pilates instructor, was trying to explain why Shaggy got the shakes.
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Natalie Meade,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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Wendy's has never outdone McDonald's in size or sales, either, but since its start in 1969, the chain with the square patties and the shakes too thick to be called shakes has had as big an impact as any other on the ways fast food is defined and sold around the world.
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Bob Vitale,
USA Today,
15 Apr. 2026
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The illnesses and deaths, which overwhelmingly (90%) occurred in people in care facilities or those who had been hospitalized before they became infected, were confirmed through whole genome sequencing as being caused by the outbreak strain associated with the shakes.
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Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
12 Aug. 2025
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