9 examples of shake-down in sentences

A shake-down in the corner would do well enough for me.

Yes: we are acquainted with persons who can sleep soundly upon any kind of shake-down.

Light-hearted voices joking each other floated up to us, and some one out of the gladness of his heart was executing a spirited shake-down on the sidewalkat six o'clock of a misty October morning.

Me an' Marg't sleeps in one, an' we're a-gittin' too old fer a shake-down on th' floor.

And then Mrs. Seymour induced her to give consent that Caesar should have a shake-down in a corner of the kitchen, and although the bed which Betty and the pretty matron had to share was hard, it was clean, and the pillows soft, and they slept soundly and well amid their rough surroundings, and, to confess the truth, enjoyed the novelty of the situation.

That rather reminds one of the story of a half-witted fellow who used to go about the country doing odd jobs, and asking in return a meal and a shake-down of straw or hay.

" "I've been thinking," said Oliver, "that you'd find it better to have some sort of a shake-down under my counter.

And could we give his man a shake-down, please?

For all I know, Gavel may have given him a shake-down, and Gavel's is the next van but one.

9 examples of  shake-down  in sentences