quaking

Example Sentences

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Troubles, however, are also quaking on the offensive side of America’s nuclear-weapons enterprise—specifically, the program to build a new land-based intercontinental ballistic missile, the Sentinel, to replace the 400 current ICBMs, known as Minuteman IIIs.

From Slate • Sep. 16, 2025

He sounded quite irritated that they were asking him about such trivialities when he is the one who has world leaders quaking in their boots as he re-makes the whole world in his image.

From Salon • Feb. 19, 2025

Seismologists in the region must have been alarmed by the quaking activity that occurred at Wednesday’s opening when Betts heaved all her might into Evillene’s “Don’t Nobody Bring Me No Bad News.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2024

"Recording it was very fun. Can't believe I'm on a song with Melanie C. Baby Becky is quaking."

From BBC • Jul. 18, 2023

Actually, he was quaking in his steel-toe-capped boots.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer