quaking
Britishadjective
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
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
Seismologists in the region must have been alarmed by the quaking activity that occurred at Wednesday’s opening when Betts heaved all her might into Evillene’s “Don’t Nobody Bring Me No Bad News.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2024
It had never occurred to her before that beneath their robes Klansmen might sometimes be quaking.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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