How to Use shakedown in a Sentence

shakedown

1 of 2 noun

• He was the victim of a shakedown by a street gang.
• They're putting the system through a shakedown.
• The guards conducted a shakedown of the prisoners' cells to look for weapons.
• Next will be the shakedown of ticketholders, in the form of PSLs.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 30 Mar. 2022
• Think of the Ukraine shakedown (over which Trump was impeached).
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 28 Oct. 2020
• But the opacity of the process has led others to call it a shakedown.
  — Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2018
• Our shakedown cruise begins the day after the final bell of the school year rings.
  — Susan Vollenweider, kansascity.com, 6 June 2017
• The USS Ford was on a shakedown cruise designed to detect issues in the brand-new ship.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 May 2018
• In October, Combs set a new top speed of 483.2 mph in a shakedown run.
  — Doug Criss, CNN, 29 Aug. 2019
• It is called a shakedown, and there is no requirement to play nice.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2021
• America's neighbors to the north just got an on-the-ice shakedown.
  — PEOPLE.com, 12 Feb. 2022
• Those released agreed to sign over some of their assets, giving the crackdown the feel of a shakedown.
  — Jon Gambrell, Star Tribune, 31 Aug. 2020
• The first step in coming to grips with this distinguished group was a thorough shakedown at the test track.
  — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 12 Apr. 2023
• Their newsprint cameo upped the ante; the shakedowns intensified.
  — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 5 June 2023
• The custom rig even underwent a five-month shakedown test in the Arctic.
  — Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 5 May 2023
• Perceptions, though, can be tough to shake during the pre-draft shakedown.
  — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2023
• Those include the time Trump appeared to try to amputate Macron's arm at the shoulder, and the 25-second shakedown.
  — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 20 July 2017
• The Starbucks shakedown was easy in part because under Prop.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2018
• That four-hour practice session to start the week will be the last hard shakedown before Friday's one-hour Carb Day before the race.
  — Elton Alexander, cleveland.com, 22 May 2017
• Check out the video premiere of Kreutzmann's shakedown below.
  — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 30 Oct. 2019
• The first launch will likely come in 2021 when the rocket carries an uncrewed capsule around the Moon in a shakedown cruise for the rocket and capsule.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 16 Jan. 2020
• Then, on Easter Sunday, she was accused of the shakedown at Rodriguez Park.
  — Emilie Eaton, ExpressNews.com, 23 Jan. 2020
• The shakedown robbery at the home on quiet Ardith Drive in south Sacramento had gone sideways.
  — Darrell Smith, sacbee, 23 Sep. 2017
• And it cannot be used as a vehicle to spread false and malicious lies, in furtherance of a shakedown.
  — Meredith Woerner, Variety, 7 Mar. 2024
• Cloudflare rejects this view, and instead likens Blackbird to a drive-by shakedown scheme.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2017
• But the shakedown is a warning to Garden State taxpayers.
  — WSJ, 4 July 2017
• Would this be a for-profit operation or a shakedown one?
  — Amy Davidson, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2017
• The four family members arrived in Denmark late last month and took the boat, dubbed Verbena, out for a for a few short shakedown sails.
  — Scott Kirsner, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2019
• Trainor had 52 contest-winning fans in the crowd, and she was set to perform one full concert on board later in the week as the ship finished out its last shakedown cruise.
  — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 16 July 2024
• Trump’s alliance shakedown is almost certain to backfire.
  — Mira Rapp-Hooper, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2020

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shake down

2 of 2 verb

• First, Trump tried to shake down Ukraine for dirt on Hunter Biden.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 7 July 2023
• Of the 128, many were shaken down by earthquakes; many now are closed.
  — Frances Mayes, National Geographic, 11 July 2019
• Then when you get elected, shake down the Air Force instead.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 9 Dec. 2019
• For a week, the Car and Driver staff left the office to shake down the vehicles on our 10Best loop.
  — Car and Driver, 17 Jan. 2023
• And soon the 111-year-old ballpark was rumbling in a way David Ortiz used to shake down the thunder.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Jan. 2023
• Buck harvest remains open through Feb. 10 in all three zones, and thanks to the rut and the cold weather, things are shaking down just right.
  — Frank Sargeant, AL.com, 3 Jan. 2018
• Gusts of up to 35 mph, which can shake down flammable dry pine needles, are expected.
  — Mallory Moench, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Sep. 2021
• There was talk of stints in rehab by the actress Lindsay Lohan and an attempt to shake down Mr. Sheen.
  — Jesse McKinley, New York Times, 2 May 2024
• This is just yet another clunky attempt by MLB to shake down a city, any city, for a ballpark.
  — Joe Sheehan, SI.com, 2 July 2019
• Invert plate and mold together and shake down sharply to release cream.
  — Woman's Day, 1 Feb. 2012
• Arkansas is going to miss out on recruits if things shake down that way.
  — Eric Bolin, ajc, 15 Nov. 2017
• Ex-Miami cop pleads guilty to shaking down dealers for coke and cash.
  — Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 2 July 2024
• Barzani said the militants are living off the land, shaking down the local villagers for food and money.
  — Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2019
• Later new complaints surfaced of people being shaken down for $1,500 to be put at the top of wait lists to present claims in the United States.
  — Maria Verza, The Denver Post, 18 Nov. 2019
• This was an epic bamboozle, where a crusading Big Green lawyer used courts in Ecuador to shake down Chevron for $18 billion.
  — Jack Fowler, National Review, 15 Apr. 2021
• Mr Sinik decided who got killed in Medan and who should merely be shaken down for money.
  — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
• Screw lying about on a plane to Miami, these two should have hopped a plane to France and really shook down the father of three and Disney star!
  — Mariah Smith, The Cut, 11 Sep. 2017
• The nurses and EMTs who shake down hospitals are really shaking down all of us.
  — Ryan Ellis, National Review, 6 Mar. 2022
• One case stems from claims that Netanyahu and his wife shook down rich acquaintances for luxury gifts.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 13 Feb. 2018
• Democrats say the call shows Trump trying to shake down a foreign leader for political gain.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2019
• The government said the men used the botnet to shake down victims and to lease its arsenal out to other attackers.
  — Robert McMillan, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2017
• Take, for example, when Feldheimer tries to shake down agent Osborne Cox (Malkovich), who instead delivers the former a swift punch to the face.
  — Derek Scancarelli, EW.com, 7 July 2022
• On two occasions, Henríquez said, Cindy had been robbed by gang members who boarded her bus and shook down the passengers.
  — Joshua Partlow, Washington Post, 21 June 2018
• The Curiosity rover is still going through its shake down phase, using new equipment and making sure all is well.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 28 Aug. 2012
• Vila Kennedy resident Pierre Lopes de Juno, 38, said he was shaken down by a police patrol one night this month.
  — Anthony Faiola and Marina Lopes, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2018
• Companies such as Acacia Mining have been shaken down for huge tax bills.
  — The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019
• Some prisoners in states with the most seizures have used phones to shake down families of fellow inmates threatened with injury or death.
  — Matt Riley, NBC News, 30 Sep. 2017
• Davis and his sales force soon will begin shaking down Raiders fans to buy tickets and seat licenses in the new stadium/casino in Vegas.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Jan. 2018
• Notre Dame Stadium is supposed to be a place to shake down the thunder, not where the Thundering Herd celebrate a 26-21 victory.
  — Tom Coyne, Chicago Tribune, 10 Sep. 2022
• The big takeaway, though, is that an intense fan campaign amplified by fake accounts helped shake down a major film studio.
  — Justine Browning, EW.com, 19 July 2022

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024