wind-shaken [wind-shey-kuh n] ExamplesWord Origin adjective
- affected by windshake.
- shaken by the wind.
Origin of wind-shaken First recorded in 1540–50 Examples from the Web for wind-shaken Historical Examples of wind-shaken
The wind-shaken branches of thought stretched with a broader sweep.
Caroline Lee Hentz
Suddenly an apple dropped from a wind-shaken bough and fell at our feet.
August Strindberg
The man kneeling in the shadows quivered like a wind-shaken reed.
Nathan Gallizier
And then again it was poor and pitiful, wind-shaken and old, but it was home.
George W. (George Washington) Ogden
A flickering sunlight fell upon the wind-shaken lilac trees in the square enclosure.
E. Phillips Oppenheim