quaking
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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I doubt the Kremlin will be quaking in its clogs over such an answer.
From BBC • Sep. 24, 2025
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
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
Irene said again through the door, her voice low but quaking.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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