quake
verb (used without object)
(of persons) to shake or tremble from cold, weakness, fear, anger, or the like.
will quake
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future tenseof quake.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Los Angeles airport will quake with arriving jets.
From Time Magazine Archive
The result will be a cavity about 200 ft. in diameter; the surface of the earth will quake, but the AEC does not expect any radioactive debris to be vented into the atmosphere.
From Time Magazine Archive
A thousand antic shapes I take; The stoutest heart at my touch will quake.
From Rookwood by William Harrison Ainsworth
The red thou flauntest bravely, friend, for me Hast lost alarming power; For who but guilty men will quake their knee, And who but robbers cower?
From Eyes of Youth A Book of Verse by Padraic Colum, Shane Leslie, A.O. by Various
Ay, he will quake, And cry for mercy to a stony Heaven Whose pity drops long since were drained upon The woe that he hath made!
From Semiramis and Other Plays Semiramis, Carlotta And The Poet by Olive Tilford Dargan
