How to Use quake in a Sentence

quake

1 of 2 verb
Definition of quakenext
Synonyms for quakenext
  • The explosion made the whole house quake.
  • She was quaking with rage.
  • Allow one hour to walk the trail and tour the quaking bog.
    — Staff Report, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2023
  • Bailey doesn’t bow and quake before each of Roth’s dozens of works.
    — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2021
  • No one's quaking in her boots just yet, but this is the face at least some of us are making right now.
    — Chelsea Peng, Marie Claire, 19 Aug. 2015
  • Typically, ad agencies quake at the thought of a CMO change for fear that the new lead will want to hire their own shops.
    — Alexandra Bruell, WSJ, 5 Apr. 2017
  • Establishments of order begin to quake and the laws of the past are threatened with collapse.
    — Wired, 10 Oct. 2019
  • After each Band Blast class, my body was always left quaking.
    — Andi Breitowich, Women's Health, 8 June 2023
  • In bibimbap, shiitakes, carrots, spinach and burdock are fanned out over rice and crowned by an egg with a still-quaking yolk.
    — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Sunday marks the first anniversary of the culture-quaking Women’s March.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 21 Jan. 2018
  • Wastewater can trigger the initial earthquakes, but quakes themselves can lead to more quakes.
    — Fox News, 7 July 2018
  • It’s hard to imagine that overseas hackers are reading that and quaking in their boots.
    — Josephine Wolff, Slate Magazine, 20 Dec. 2017
  • The Sox, accused of using their video replay room to steal signs under Cora in 2018, should be quaking in their cleats.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Jan. 2020
  • The system was thought to be aseismic — essentially quake free and harmless.
    — Jerry Thompson, Discover Magazine, 12 Mar. 2012
  • So there’s a good deal of pedigree there, and the film’s themes of race, class, and economics ought to feel pretty timely at this quaking American moment.
    — Richard Lawson, VanityFair.com, 18 Jan. 2017
  • Many astronomers now believe that the space-quaking merger of two neutron stars can forge the universe’s supply of heavy elements.
    — Quanta Magazine, 23 Mar. 2017
  • About two seconds later, people such as King were movin’ and shakin’, causing the establishment to quake before them.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The book, which is slim and focussed, quakes with a nervous energy that often erupts into euphoria.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Roston sings with the soul-quaking conviction of gospel, only without the promise of redemption.
    — Nelson Pressley, Washington Post, 25 June 2019
  • Paintings are broken down into bits and pieces, which then quake, or dissolve, or morph into one thing or another.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Mugabe's wife Grace covered her face with a veil, but her body quaked with sobs as family members gave their eulogy.
    — Mark Chingono and Bukola Adebayo, CNN, 28 Sep. 2019
  • This big baby would make any rival quake with fear, if megabots only had feelings and could actually quake.
    — Fox News, 1 May 2017
  • High-speed 64th notes were in abundance, and there were also mercurial mood changes, widely spaced mega-chords and quaking, two-note tremolos.
    — Barbara Jepson, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2019
  • My favorite workouts end with quaking muscles and the occasional dry-heave.
    — Diana Tsui, The Cut, 18 Sep. 2017
  • The tree, nicknamed Pando, is a quaking aspen that has cloned itself so many times it's created an entire forest.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 12 June 2017
  • This includes classics like quaking aspen, yarrow, big sagebrush, columbine and milkweed.
    — Anna Webb, idahostatesman, 23 June 2017
  • Defenders of photography as an art form tend to quake at what’s happening with their beloved medium.
    — Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2019
  • Chase and Bank Of America likely aren’t quaking in their boots but this could move the needle on stubbornly low interest rate payouts.
    — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Although Mars is not thought to have tectonic plates like those on Earth that shift and grind against each other, triggering earthquakes, a planet can shake and quake for other reasons.
    — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 May 2018
  • Heineman keeps his camera trained on his subject’s quaking body for an unusually long shot.
    — Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 6 July 2017
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quake

2 of 2 noun
  • It's been over 72 hours since the quake; chances of her grandson being alive are next to none.
    — Ibtissem Guenfoud, ABC News, 27 Feb. 2023
  • One floor above, in the Eclipse lounge, a dozen people watched news of the quake zone on television.
    — Nimet Kirac Sergey Ponomarev, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2023
  • On March 17, a 4.3 quake hit in the same general area in the Pacific Ocean.
    — The Oregonian/oregonlive Public Safety Team, oregonlive, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The quake was also felt in Honduras, Guatemala, and Belize.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 19 July 2023
  • Or, as was the case with one of the two quakes in question, a meteoroid impact.
    — Stephanie Mlot, PCMAG, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Colton got a shaking, at about a mile from the quake’s epicenter.
    — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Once defending the city from danger, large parts of these walls have been damaged in the quake.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The beeping warnings for quakes went off on their cellphones.
    — Yuri Kageyama, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The largest measured was an about 3.5 magnitude quake just after 4 a.m., the Met said.
    — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Since that time, a larger (magnitude 6.2) quake took place in Chile.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Your brilliance will thunder, even if your voice quakes.
    — Kyle Thomas, Peoplemag, 7 Apr. 2024
  • The quake comes on the heels of another reported one on the West Coast just one day earlier.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 3 July 2023
  • Introduction The quakes that rocked the region in November helped point the way.
    — Robin George Andrews, Quanta Magazine, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The quake had a depth of about 1 kilometer, according to USGS.
    — Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 6 Apr. 2024
  • The second quake worsened the damage at Jensen’s home, who faces a mountain of work to restore the residence.
    — Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 2 July 2023
  • The quakes set off panic in Herat, resident Naseema said.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The violent vertical thrusts of the quake ruptured gas lines and water mains.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Sep. 2023
  • One of those who lost a home in the quake is Ayesha, a resident of the town of Atareb in rural Aleppo who had to evacuate her home to live in a tent.
    — Ghaith Alsayed, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2023
  • On the first night of the trip, the quake ripped through the country’s northwestern coast, crushing buildings and killing thousands of sleeping people.
    — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
  • This story has been corrected to say the quake did not occur offshore.
    — Mari Yamaguchi, ajc, 6 May 2023
  • The largest quake so far in the series was a magnitude 3.9 beneath Tanaga Volcano.
    — George Petras, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Kidnappings surged after the quake, and gangs amassed power through violence in the two years since Moïse’s killing.
    — Shera Avi-Yonah, Washington Post, 29 July 2023
  • The president’s approval rating was low even before the quake.
    — Abbas Al Lawati, CNN, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Researchers thought that the 4.7-magnitude quake might also have been caused by an impact.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The quake left homeless hundreds of thousands of people in the area, many of whom had already been displaced by Syria's 12-year-long war.
    — Ghaith Alsayed, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Some cities are now in the midst of new efforts to retrofit buildings to better protect them during a major quake.
    — Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Ibrahim, who suffered a broken femur and crushed lower leg in the quake, endured many surgeries.
    — Terence McGinley, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2024
  • At least three people died and hundreds of others were injured in Monday's quake, which centered on the town of Defne and could be felt as far away as Egypt.
    — Paul Best, Fox News, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The quake rattled Sacramento, though only as a minor tremor.
    — Quakebot, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2023
  • Six months since the quake, almost no homes have been rebuilt and no services, like water or sewer, have been restored.
    — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Aug. 2023

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