(superl.) Shaking or trembling; as, a shaky spot in a marsh; a shaky hand.
(superl.) Full of shakes or cracks; cracked; as, shaky timber.
(superl.) Easily shaken; tottering; unsound; as, a shaky constitution; shaky business credit.
Example Sentences:
(1) Shaky phone footage of the raid that circulated online showed the vigilantes kicking, slapping and insulting the men, with one of them slumped naked on the ground during the attack.
(2) Moody's isn't catching up with shaky peripheral nations but pre-empting a credit downgrade of the EU's strongest core members.
(3) Obama and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) got off to a shaky start: the KRG, which mostly benefited from the US invasion of Iraq, was wary of an American president anxious to withdraw and detach from the country.
(4) People using the search engine on Monday to find out about the term, coined to describe the prime minister’s manifesto commitment to shake up the funding of old age care, found the top result was a paid-for link from Conservatives .com that read: “The so-called ‘dementia tax’ – get the real facts.” Tory plans for change to care costs 'risk being built on shaky foundations' Read more It links to a five-point Q&A, which explains that “only by getting a good Brexit deal will we be able to continue to fund our public services, like social care”.
(5) But when that verdict is given, it should be recalled that, after a shaky start, parliament gave the matter due and dutiful consideration; that it fulfilled its constitutional function properly and, for the most part, with civil propriety.
(6) 1.37am BST Cardinals 0 - Dodgers 0, top of 2nd Well Ryu doesn't look nearly as shaky as he did against the Braves, rather, he looks a whole lot like the jolly fellow that went 14-8 with a 3.00 ERA in the regular season.
(7) "It's a little bit shaky," the pilot radioed, but seconds later he was reportedly taking pictures of the ground beneath him as the craft glided back to earth.
(8) Disturbances of the cerebellum may cause a kinetic tremor of the extremities or shakiness of the trunk.
(9) I’ve seen what Grobbelaar did against Roma, too, but I don’t think I’ve got the shaky legs!
(10) What is needed is a route to recognising, in law, the value of parenting.” This first year may have been a bit of a shaky start, but I would recommend SPL to anyone.
(11) Banks stopped lending almost overnight, and the Wilsons' property merry-go-round suddently started looking increasingly shaky.
(12) The State Department said the US remained committed to making the talks happen, but acknowledged it had been a shaky start.
(13) Two percent of normal controls noted that drinking coffee made their hands shaky.
(14) Gaga, however, is not like other pop stars, and despite a shaky start – earlier this week, Artpop was outside's Amazon's top 20 sellers – the album is now heading for a No 1 debut in the album chart tomorrow, which would make it the 999th No 1 album in UK chart history.
(15) The Rams arrived at Ewood Park on the back of a six-game unbeaten run that suggested they were adapting to the philosophy of their new manager, Paul Clement, after a shaky start.
(16) Even by his shaky standards, Erdoğan’s behaviour during the campaign was exceptionally boorish.
(17) For instance, the financial case for new roads in the United Kingdom, shaky at the best of times, falls apart if you attach almost any value to the rise in greenhouse gases they cause.
(18) Jasmine, broke and shaky, goes to stay with adopted sister Ginger (Sally Hawkins) in her boxy San Francisco flat.
(19) That might be the case in the Premier League, though the theory was made to look as shaky as some of the United defending by the superbly mobile and bewitchingly ingenious Barcelona attack.
(20) But news that another pillar of the German corporate establishment looked shaky added to the sense of uncertainty.
Shay
Definition:
(n.) A chaise.
Example Sentences:
(1) A series of alkylazulene-1-sodium sulfonate derivatives which has an isopropyl group at 6-position were synthesized, and their anti-ulcer activities were examined in Shay pylorus-ligated rats.
(2) Joe Cole made his full debut for Villa and Shay Given made his first appearance since January 2013, while Darren Bent started a game for the first time since the final day of the 2012-13 season.
(3) Shay Given could have been mistaken for just another Irish tourist on the Algarve until he was forced to work just after the half-hour, saving a couple of long-range strikes by Liam Walker.
(4) Shay Given and Craig Bellamy (a player he did sign for Blackburn) have been excellent, with pinching Gareth Barry from under Liverpool's nose one of the manager's best bits of business.
(5) The Obama administration must back international efforts to achieve zero carbon emissions by 2050,” said Shaye Wolf, the climate science director with the Center for Biological Diversity.
(6) Mucosa damage, these appear in the Shay ulcer model before the macroscopic ulceration, can be prevented by the selective proximal vagotomy.
(7) The results illustrate that gastric diversion is accurate and suitable for basal acid output estimation and it is suggested as a valuable substitute for the classical Shay rat procedure, allowing gastric secretion collection over 6 h without gastric mucosal injury.
(8) When Yemeni journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye receives a coveted Human Rights Defenders award in Geneva , his role as a fearless chronicler of his country's US-led drone war will have come full circle.
(9) President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi reversed that decision in May, issuing an order to release Shaye "soon", according to the London Times correspondent Iona Craig, who covered the case extensively.
(10) Benzimidazole and some of its derivatives as 4-nitro and 5-nitro-benzimidazoles, 2-amino-, 4-amino- and 5-aminobenzimidazoles have been tested on gastric acid secretion in Shay-rats.
(11) Captain Kristen Griest, 26, and first lieutenant Shaye Haver, 25, graduated from the prestigious school in Fort Benning, Georgia , with 94 male classmates who successfully finished three arduous phases of training, lasting months in total.
(12) Shay ulceration and gastric lesions induced by cold-restraint stress and ulcerogenic agents, such as acetylsalicylic acid (ASA), reserpine, or epinephrine, in rats were significantly aggravated by pregnancy (day 20 of pregnancy).
(13) delta9-Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) inhibited ulcer formation in the pylorus-ligated rat (Shay rat test).
(14) Up the road in Halifax, however, they hit upon an enterprising idea: why not use the Shay for ice-skating?
(15) Shaye's coverage shed more light than any other individual on the scope of the US drone warfare programme and kept him in the cross hairs of both governments.
(16) In Shay-rats a dose dependent inhibitory effect of salmon calcitonin on ulcer formation and gastric secretion is demonstrated.
(17) In the present study the effects of these substances were examined using the Shay-model.
(18) The alpha-cell cycle was very significantly depressed and the beta + gamma-cell cycle was increased in three different rat leukemias (L5222, Shay, BNML), growing on three different rat strains (BDIX, Holtzmann, Brown Norway).
(19) Speed's former Newcastle United teammate Shay Given, who attended a charity fundraising event with him in May, broke down in tears on television as a minute's silence was held at the start of Swansea City's match against Aston Villa.
(20) Bowing to the pressure, then-president Ali Abdullah Saleh pardoned Shaye weeks after his sentencing.