shake down
Example Sentences
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The precedent also encourages plaintiff attorneys to shake down companies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025
Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy’s attorney is accusing NFL veteran Michael Oher, whose story inspired ‘The Blind Side,’ of trying to shake down the couple.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2023
Fewer than half of workers now trust their organization to give them a fair shake, down to 46% from 54% last year, according to a separate survey from the Society for Human Resource Management.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 26, 2023
We read what Selin reads — Pushkin, Babel, Freud, Chekhov and, less happily for her, Martin Amis — and watch her ruthlessly shake down her life, comparing it to the lives she encounters in fiction.
From New York Times • May 9, 2022
Forty of them played together shake one’s reason, shake the towers of Erhenrang, shake down a last spatter of rain from the windy clouds.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
