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
The role is so glorious that he almost breaks character when he begins quaking in earnest.
From Salon • Nov. 9, 2024
Treinen was hardly quaking in his cleats, despite the fine mess he had gotten himself into.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2024
Seattle-based artist and journalist Jeff Rice recorded the sounds for this multimedia installation in Pando, a gigantic grove of interconnected quaking aspen trees in Utah — and one of the world’s largest single organisms.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 22, 2024
The dragon had left her quaking, and even now she still shook with the adrenaline, though her expression dared him to mention it.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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