Use "shakedown" in a sentence

1. Could it possibly be due to the fact that, a few years prior to that special election, his shakedown - artist father managed to extort from the prior owners, a good share of the Chicago beer distribution rights for Jesse, Jr

2. Shortly after Rachel had headed back to the ship from her meeting with Commodore McGuire, they had taken Daisy out on a shakedown cruise to test the repairs and not returned

3. At all events he wound up by concluding, eschewing for the nonce hidebound precedent, a cup of Epps's cocoa and a shakedown for the night plus the use of a rug or two and overcoat doubled into a pillow at least he would be in safe hands and as warm as a toast on a trivet he failed to perceive any very vast amount of harm in that always with the proviso no rumpus of any sort was kicked up

4. I'll scramble you up some supper, and I'll give you a shakedown