quaking

/ ˈkweɪkɪŋ /

adjective

1. unstable or unsafe to walk on, as a bog or quicksand

   a quaking bog

   quaking sands

Example Sentences

The role is so glorious that he almost breaks character when he begins quaking in earnest.

From Salon

Treinen was hardly quaking in his cleats, despite the fine mess he had gotten himself into.

From Los Angeles Times

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

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

Often dismissed with the language of a fever dream — La La Land, lotus eaters, blah blah blah — the landscape I encountered, prone to burning and to quaking, existed instead in a constant state of emergence.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• agitation
• cataclysm
• tumult
• turbulence
• upheaval