quaking
Example Sentences
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I doubt the Kremlin will be quaking in its clogs over such an answer.
From BBC • Sep. 24, 2025
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
The role is so glorious that he almost breaks character when he begins quaking in earnest.
From Salon • Nov. 9, 2024
Treinen was hardly quaking in his cleats, despite the fine mess he had gotten himself into.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2024
For that brief moment, Lazlo felt a tremor of the quaking grief within her: that she had not been able to keep her child safe.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
