Get to know Shook better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like barrel or cask.
Shook meaning
- A set of pieces for making a cask or box, usually wood.
- The parts of a piece of house furniture, as a bedstead, packed together.
Using Shook
- The main meaning on this page is: A set of pieces for making a cask or box, usually wood. | The parts of a piece of house furniture, as a bedstead, packed together.
- Useful related words include: barrel, cask.
- In the example corpus, shook often appears in combinations such as: shook his, shook the, shook hands.
Context around Shook
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 10 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Shook
- In this selection, "shook" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, earthquake, hank, jerry, late, hands and monique stand out and add context to how "shook" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a passerby shook his head and an earthquake shook cuenca ecuador. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "shook" sits close to words such as analyzed, clare and composite, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with shook
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A chilling murder which shook Merseyside was left unsolved for 16 years. (12 words)
Aryan then shook hands with Bhaijaan and also greeted him with salaam. (12 words)
Again, the neighbor commented that my son shook his hand instead of hugging him. (14 words)
As it all shook out, I think both actors ended up in the projects they were meant to be in. I cannot imagine these movies without these performers at their centers, and frankly, I wouldn't want to either. (39 words)
After two years of arrests and persecution against dissidents in Belarus, Alexander Lukashenka’s regime is looking for new ways of dealing with the fallout of the post-election protests that shook the country in 2020 and 2021. (38 words)
Allen: So, with the close of First Republic Bank and JPMorgan Chase kind of stepping in there, what are your thoughts on how that shook out and the federal government’s role in that? (34 words)
Allen: So, with the close of First Republic Bank and JPMorgan Chase kind of stepping in there, what are your thoughts on how that shook out and the federal government’s role in that? (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
Dear sister of Mae Tarter (late Bill), Hank Shook (late Irene), Jerry Shook (Monique), late Marion Johnson (late Harry), late Bill Shook, late Herb (late Vi), late Roger and late Wayne.
The two shook hands and shared some words before Holland also shook the hand of UFC president Dana White.
He consistently ranks among America’s Top Forbes-Shook Wealth Advisors, even back to SHOOK’s first ranking in 2001.
I told my buddy Jay that I was shook and couldn’t get my Mojo back and we both shook our heads as to why I was sliding like I did.
St James’s Park shook and heaved that day, and as the whistle blew for full-time it shook and heaved once more.
A car crushed by debris after an earthquake shook Cuenca, Ecuador on Saturday 18 March.
A chilling murder which shook Merseyside was left unsolved for 16 years.
After two years of arrests and persecution against dissidents in Belarus, Alexander Lukashenka’s regime is looking for new ways of dealing with the fallout of the post-election protests that shook the country in 2020 and 2021.
Again, the neighbor commented that my son shook his hand instead of hugging him.
A jury has cleared Elon Musk from being liable for any losses suffered by investors after his infamous 'funding secured' tweet that shook stock prices.
Ali Kalem’s heart sank earlier this week when he woke up to the news that an earthquake shook his childhood home, Adana, in southern Turkey.
Allen: So, with the close of First Republic Bank and JPMorgan Chase kind of stepping in there, what are your thoughts on how that shook out and the federal government’s role in that?
Although he knew of some in his yeshiva who had become engaged after a fourth or fifth date, he shook away those unhelpful thoughts.
Always one finger on the pulse, she shook everything up, including cinema itself which she refused to constrict to pure fiction or long-form films.
A "monster" who shook a toddler to death was jailed for life - and her mother was locked up for nine years.
A passerby shook his head and zipped away when spotting what’s on our screens.
A powerful earthquake that shook Morocco late Friday killed more than 800 people, interior ministry figures showed, sending terrified residents fleeing their homes in the middle of the night.
Aryan then shook hands with Bhaijaan and also greeted him with salaam.
As it all shook out, I think both actors ended up in the projects they were meant to be in. I cannot imagine these movies without these performers at their centers, and frankly, I wouldn't want to either.
As the woman behind the till shook her head, another woman in the queue tutted at me.
Common combinations with shook
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- shook his 33×
- shook the 30×
- shook hands 26×
- that shook 19×
- and shook 14×
- shook off 11×
- he shook 10×
- earthquake shook 9×
- shook and 8×
- it shook 7×