world-shaking
of sufficient size or importance to affect the entire world: the world-shaking effects of an international clash.
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How to use world-shaking in a sentence
Not long afterward came the world-shaking news of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Bin Laden’s Life on the Run, Witnessed by Al Qaeda Child Bride | Michael Daly | July 10, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTVerily it was only a day of small things, of very humble ambitions, of far from world-shaking successes!
The History of Sir Richard Calmady | Lucas MaletAnyone would think, watching her operate, that a lab technician was a job of world-shaking importance.
The Observers | G. L. VandenburgFrom that cavernous, distended throat came a tremendous, world-shaking noise.
Shiva, maddened with grief, gathered up the bones of his unfortunate consort and danced about with them in a world-shaking frenzy.
India, Old and New | Sir Valentine Chirol
And this is the way a large number of world-shaking passions begin, since at first we seldom apprehend our potentiality.
The Passionate Elopement | Compton Mackenzie
British Dictionary definitions for world-shaking
of enormous significance; momentous
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