How to Use fault line in a Sentence

fault line

noun
  • How do the fault lines rupture?
    — Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 19 June 2026
  • The fires have exposed old wounds along the town’s racial fault lines.
    — Matt Friedman, CNN, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Where are the fault lines in the Philippines?
    — Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The point where these faults move against each other is called the fault line.
    — Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 15 June 2026
  • The fault lines between young and old are real.
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 12 June 2026
  • Long surgical scars still trace like fault lines on his knees.
    — James Horncastle, New York Times, 30 June 2025
  • Here’s what makes the fault lines beneath Venezuela so unique.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 26 June 2026
  • And palliative care is where that fault line runs hottest.
    — Kyle P. Edmonds, STAT, 9 Apr. 2026
  • This fault line persists across the country (see chart above).
    — The Economist, 29 Feb. 2020
  • The problem cuts along predictable fault lines.
    — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 4 May 2026
  • The Strait of Messina is along a fault line.
    — Robert Birsel john Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Aug. 2025
  • There are other fault lines in the market opening up as well.
    — Royce Branning, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2024
  • In 2022, their fault lines were exposed.
    — Emma Madden, Pitchfork, 4 Sep. 2025
  • One fault line is a willingness to share the spoils with allies.
    — Anthea Roberts, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Then there is the fault line running right through her family.
    — Jeremy W. Peters, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2018
  • Gardine said the two quakes were not connected or on the same fault line.
    — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Iran sits on major fault lines and is prone to near-daily earthquakes.
    — Fox News, 1 Apr. 2018
  • The shocks and fault lines of such growth were visible throughout the town.
    — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The book-burning did not so much expose fault lines of race as deepen them.
    — Moriah Balingit, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2019
  • Soon, fault lines begin to form, and secrets threaten to erupt.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 1 May 2024
  • The fault lines beneath the country will stay active.
    — Luis E. Romero, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
  • The strongest fault line might be around climate change and trade, said Abreu.
    — Jean Chemnick, Scientific American, 31 May 2018
  • This, in turn, has surfaced old Yemeni fault lines, between north and south.
    — Bobby Ghosh, The Denver Post, 24 Aug. 2019
  • Oracle’s own filing traces the same fault line.
    — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • Education emerged as a key fault line.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 20 Dec. 2025
  • And one of the fault lines appears to be widening over the crisis in Gaza.
    — Keir Simmons, NBC News, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Our main source of water is 167 miles away, and crosses three fault lines.
    — Dominic Fracassa, SFChronicle.com, 20 Nov. 2019
  • How to consider race has been a major fault line on the court in recent years.
    — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 26 June 2026
  • The action of his hammer sends fault lines into the wider structure.
    — Georgina Voss, The Atlantic, 20 June 2018
  • Holmes was a victim of common fault lines in the justice system.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2025

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