shake hands
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.27 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To part, to say farewell.
noun
an instance of shaking hands; a handshake
Example Sentences
- "Gerald was enthusiastic. After a while they shook hands, it being time to separate. And for a long time Selwyn sat there alone in the visitors' room, absent-eyed, facing the blazing fire of cannel coal."
- "If political calculation so required, he could pelt a man with mud one day and shake hands with him the next."
- "Shaking hands is probably the most common form of social touch in the U.S., and it’s thought to have originated many centuries ago as assurance that neither party was carrying a weapon."
- "But thou and I have shaken hands, Till growing winters lay me low; My paths are in the fields I know, And thine in undiscover’d lands."
- "Many a shake hands did I get from the neighbours’ sons, wishing me joy"
- "He exchanged greetings with his rival, but their shake-hands was rather a cold one, and each looked the other askance, as if distrust was in their hearts."