shake helplessly

Examples (10)

• After the car crash, he could only sit on the curb and shake helplessly.
• Lost in the blizzard, the hiker begins to shake helplessly from the intense cold.
• She was laughing so hard at his joke that she started to shake helplessly in her chair.
• Upon hearing the sad news, she collapsed into a chair and began to shake helplessly with sobs.
• Before going on stage, he always stands in the wings and begins to shake helplessly.
• If the fever gets any higher, the patient will start to shake helplessly.
• I watched the small animal shake helplessly in the predator's grasp.
• He has been shaking helplessly ever since he received the threatening letter.
• The child, soaked from the rain, stood there shaking helplessly.
• He was shaking helplessly, caught between terror and a strange sense of relief.