Synonyms for shakers
shak·ers

Princeton's WordNet

1. Shakers, United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearingnoun

   a celibate and communistic Christian sect in the United States

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1. • Sect

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How to use shakers in a sentence?

1. Julia Griffith:

   It's not a spooky theme but they act as the various movers and shakers of Milwaukee who are buried there.

2. Arthur O'Shaunessey:

   We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems.

3. Brian Tracy:

   Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.