quaking

/ ˈkweɪkɪŋ /

adjective

1. unstable or unsafe to walk on, as a bog or quicksand

   a quaking bog

   quaking sands

Example Sentences

I doubt the Kremlin will be quaking in its clogs over such an answer.

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Even when Keenan scored, there was a television match official check that would have had every Lions fan quaking in their boots.

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The Labour leadership won't be quaking in its boots when attacked by the Left.

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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.

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The role is so glorious that he almost breaks character when he begins quaking in earnest.

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Related Words

• insecure 
• jittery 
• nervous 
• precarious 
• rickety 
• rocky 
• unsettled 
• unstable 
• unsteady 
• weak 
• wobbly