- present participle of shake.
shaking
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Somewhere, Jonathan Gold is shaking his head in disgust.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Alfonso Malpica said he felt his ground floor flat in Granada shaking, telling El País newspaper that the quake was "stronger than the ones that happen from time to time, the ones we're used to".
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Yohanes Babo, 56, a resident of Nagekeo, said he was at a market when the earth started shaking in the early morning hours.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
She ran outside as the shaking began, receiving only a wound on her leg.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
“Oh, no, I won’t, Mama,” I said, shaking my head.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
Nothing fell to the floor or broke, but it reminded him of the January shakings and made him worry that a big quake like that occurred even five months later.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2024
The first shakings came in 1972, when the players went on strike over their pension fund; the season lost 86 games out of a total of more than 160.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 29, 2012
In the 1960s, scientists set up seismometers across the world, allowing them to measure and record the slightest shakings almost anywhere.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2011
He shook his head, quick vision-clearing shakings and established himself in the world once more.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
Even more unnerving, because they are less well understood and capable of occurring anywhere at any time, are the rarer type of shakings known as intraplate quakes.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
