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Example Sentences
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There’s a longing buried deep within it, a vulnerability that stretches beyond the confines of the film and into the audience — not to shake sense into them, but to lay a hand on their shoulders.
From Salon
"Saturday rolls around and it comes, it goes and you shake it off - good or bad you're going to do another show," Bamgboye recalls him saying.
From BBC
It's already shaking up the economy and society, and the government wants Scotland to get involved and capitalise on its potential, rather than just being swept along as the world changes.
From BBC
Slater relayed the call to Alford and told him it had badly shaken her, her former deputy testified.
His low-key approach, say some papal observers, has made it harder for him to make himself heard in a wider world that’s being shaken up by populism, strongman leaders and raw power politics.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
