Age
Age noun - A long or seemingly long period of time.
Usage example: it took ages for the clerk to ring up three items
Shake
Shake noun - A very small space of time.
Usage example: I'll be there in two shakes
How words are described
| human | human age | human shake |
| long | long age | long shake |
| true | true age | true shake |
| real | real age | real shake |
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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But when she returns at age 17, he does a terrible job of bonding with her because he has been alone so long with only a dog for company that he can't shake free of his obsession.
Source: Western Animation / Epic - But they can't shake one nagging thought: that Ogami and Daigoro are around the age of the children and grandchildren that the ninja life had denied them.
Source: Suicide Pact -
She's smart enough to realize that it would never work out, for their personalities if not the age difference, but it still takes a while to shake off.
Source: Precocious Crush
Cite this Source
Shake and Age. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/age/shake
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