What is "shook out"

Usage examples of "shook out".

But from under the towels odd defiant trills and bubblings still shook out.

She laid the wig on the table, shook out her long, straw-colored hair, and began combing it.

She shook out his pantsever vigilant about spiders and bugsand stepped into them as he fished in her purse for the antibacterial gel.

The old men seized one another by the arm and shook out their last asthmatic breath in praise or condemnation of the cow.

Back on shore Karara shook out her hair, spread it over her shoulders to dry.

She shook out her skirts, lifting them as if trying to rehabilitate the crushed starch of her petticoats.

Nothing daunted, the Roman shook out his long lash, loosed the reins, leaned forward, and, with a triumphant shout, took the wall.

She favored me with a cool glance, then shook out that fabulous platinum hair and nodded.

He shook out his napkin and laid it on the table, then placed the orange in the middle and separated it into sections.

Surely the business with Galileo, however it shook out, was a matter for the Holy Office and, insofar as the pope took part, a matter of political wrangling between His Holiness and the Spanish party?

Numbly, he shook out the dark-blue trousers as though he performed duties of batman every day.

Clegane shook out his whip, and sent it hissing through the soft rain to bite at a horse’.

But at three o'clock he shook out the reins over the trotters and turned into the by-roads leading to Portsmouth.

They danced with closed eyes, oval faces serene, in huge swaying and arching gestures, humming through closed lips to the music, and the male, who was on the surface almost indistinguishable from the female, every now and then shook out his immense veil of hair and swung it rapidly around him in a circle.

She shook out a petticoat, with a hand-wrought ruffle a foot deep, then an old-fashioned chemise the neck and sleeve work of which was elaborate and perfectly wrought.