How to Use shaky in a Sentence

shaky

adjective
  • Her commitment to the cause seems shaky.
  • Their marriage is on shaky ground.
  • She took a few shaky steps before she collapsed.
  • The team has performed better lately after getting off to a shaky start.
  • The trust between the palace and the public seems shaky.
    Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2024
  • On the way up, the ladies do have a ladder — rusty and shaky.
    Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2022
  • After a shaky start to the year, that was enough to send stocks back off to the races.
    Heard Editors, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Williams was still a bit shaky on the rotations in the first half.
    Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Things were starting to look shaky at the start of the second half.
    Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Sep. 2022
  • By the mid-1960s, the bridge was still standing but shaky from flood and avalanche damage.
    David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Dec. 2022
  • That foundation is shaky now, and all the bricks are about to fall on Blake.
    Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • And the beginnings of the Lanvin Group have been shaky.
    Tiffany Ap, Quartz, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The pitching staff is still a bit shaky, and there’s some holes in the lineup that need to be filled.
    Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The Raiders are 2-4 over their last six games, with the wins coming over New York’s two shaky teams.
    Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2023
  • In the shaky footage, the two men can be seen standing in the doorway, each with a hand on the hammer.
    Reis Thebault, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Dec. 2022
  • There, too, Karst and Jones claim some of the evidence is shaky.
    Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Much like Noren, Mitchell has produced a shaky start to the 2023 season.
    Nick Hennion, Chicago Tribune, 9 Nov. 2022
  • His shirt was untucked, his hair messy, and his voice shaky.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Throughout the match, the crowd buoyed Williams along, through a shaky start and unforced errors.
    Diane Herbst, Peoplemag, 29 Aug. 2022
  • On shaky legs, the calf eventually made it to his hooves.
    Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The means by which the STF assumed this power in the first place, appear to be on shaky legal ground.
    David Unsworth, Fox News, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Aid for Ukraine, by contrast, is stalled in Congress, and the West’s unity is shaky.
    Branislav L. Slantchev, Foreign Affairs, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Chapman has helped stabilize the back end of Texas’ shaky bullpen.
    Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 18 July 2023
  • The story’s shaky, and the scholarship’s not new, but the art is fantastic.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 9 Nov. 2023
  • In a shaky but strong voice, the 39-year-old mother of two detailed her three years of hell at Tesla.
    Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2022
  • First seasons of shows used to be shaky, and only in time would a series hit its stride.
    Eliana Dockterman, Time, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Douglas started the day on a shaky note on the floor exercise.
    Kaetlyn Liddy, NBC News, 27 Apr. 2024
  • The last six games of 2022 were shaky, but no one believes Watson’s game has decayed that much.
    Dan Labbe, cleveland, 21 July 2023
  • This is a far cry from the outlook even a matter of months ago when a shaky July jobs report led to calls for an emergency rate cut.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2024
  • While his accent is still shaky as hell, Hardy brings a believable weariness to Eddie this time around that feels right for a man who’s been living with an alien infection for about a year.
    Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 24 Oct. 2024

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