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

"Sure enough, the quaking started to happen," Mr Manaugh said.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 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

In 2017, he founded Project Pando, named for a colony of some 50,000 quaking aspens in Utah connected by a single root system.

From Seattle Times • May 22, 2024

The dragon had left her quaking, and even now she still shook with the adrenaline, though her expression dared him to mention it.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell