earth-shaking
Example Sentences
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Other countries could pick up the seismic signal from an Earth-shaking blast half a world away.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 20, 2023
As if the internet needed another Earth-shaking fandom moment: BTS singer flirted with pop phenom Olivia Rodrigo at Sunday’s Grammy Awards, sending some fans into a tizzy.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2022
In any case, the 100% confirmable version of his rise from poverty to neurosurgery is so impressive that any attention to it might be a benefit unless something truly Earth-shaking pop up.
From MSNBC • Nov. 10, 2015
Earth-shaking change Whatever the current rate of subsidence, it may not reflect the full scale of the problem.
From Scientific American • Apr. 13, 2014
Ah, luckless man, how hast thou angered thus Earth-shaking Neptune, that he visits thee With these disasters?
From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Stoddard, Richard Henry
