adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a rocky/shaky start (= a rather bad start )
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After a shaky start, they managed two wins in five matches.
shaky (= morale that could easily become low )
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The team's morale is shaky after their series of losses.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
very
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She felt very shaky and she was glad he held her arm.
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Only when he was no longer in sight did she release a very shaky breath.
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All the same, just thinking about it made her feel very shaky inside.
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Today the couple are having counselling but the marriage is very shaky .
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Otherwise it is likely that strategic analysis will rest on very shaky foundations.
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But for the Thorn deal cash, the bottom line would have looked very shaky .
■ NOUN
breath
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Only when he was no longer in sight did she release a very shaky breath .
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She drew a long, shaky breath .
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He took a shaky breath , and I thought he would speak, then he bit his lip and remained silent.
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Taking a deep, shaky breath , she slowly followed Leo.
foundation
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Closer analysis reveals a shakier foundation .
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The hypothesis that paradoxical pain is caused by abnormal metabolism of morphine is plausible but built on shaky foundations .
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The social reality constructed by the malestream approach rests on shaky foundations .
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Otherwise it is likely that strategic analysis will rest on very shaky foundations .
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How then can religious certainty be based upon the inevitably shaky foundation of historical investigation?
ground
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Mu is on even shakier ground .
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Jody reassured them as best she could, but she knew she was on shaky ground .
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Here I must admit that I am on shaky ground .
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It was solely on the last score that Cecilia, our housekeeper for the past 20 years, remained on shaky grounds .
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Such sarcasm ill becomes anybody on the shaky ground that Goldschmidt here treads.
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But the city of Philadelphia is hurting -- no longer near bankruptcy, but still on shaky ground .
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Here Thorpe is on shakier ground .
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Both organisations admit there may be occasional breaches, but says that Animal Aid is still on shaky ground .
hand
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Once in her own room Paige wiped a shaky hand over her brow.
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Constructors with shaky hands are advised to place thin card between each pair of leads being soldered and the fabric.
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I stared helplessly at the announcement, written now in a very shaky hand , and did as he asked.
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Though he wasn't a ghost she was still too scared to touch that small, shaky hand .
start
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After a shaky start , we took them to the cleaners. b.?
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He converted nine in a row at one point, after a shaky start .
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We took them, after a shaky start , to the cleaners.
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Their work together got off to a shaky start .
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In that context, 22-year-old Faulkner said the shaky start to coeducation at the Citadel was little wonder.
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After a shaky start , the president now gets a better than 50 percent approval rating in opinion polls here.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a shaky ladder
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a shaky relationship
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Even after the long months of therapy Owen was still very shaky .
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Her grandfather was a little shaky on his feet after the fall.
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The baby's taken her first few shaky steps.
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The evidence is shaky , at best.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A: The calves are shaky .
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After both Millie and joseph were dead, Lally would write to my grandmother in her shaky old hand.
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But most agreed, too, that the foundations of the show were shaky .
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By far the shakiest part of the calculation is the average mutation rate.
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He seemed more concerned to break than maintain the shaky truce existing between him and his father.
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Not because they made bad or greedy investments, and lost all their money in shaky stock deals.
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The Nottinghamshire opening partnership of left handers kept up the pressure on a shaky Worcestershire attack.
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When she saw where I was sitting she pushed her hands in her coat pockets and ambled over on her shaky heels.