How to Use quake in a Sentence

quake

1 of 2 verb
  • The explosion made the whole house quake.
  • She was quaking with rage.
  • Bailey doesn’t bow and quake before each of Roth’s dozens of works.
    — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Rock big enough to quake an indoor stadium.
    — Brendan Hay, SPIN, 13 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • After each Band Blast class, my body was always left quaking.
    — Andi Breitowich, Women's Health, 8 June 2023
  • Wastewater can trigger the initial earthquakes, but quakes themselves can lead to more quakes.
    — Fox News, 7 July 2018
  • 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
  • The system was thought to be aseismic — essentially quake free and harmless.
    — Jerry Thompson, Discover Magazine, 12 Mar. 2012
  • Establishments of order begin to quake and the laws of the past are threatened with collapse.
    — Wired, 10 Oct. 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
  • Heineman keeps his camera trained on his subject’s quaking body for an unusually long shot.
    — Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 6 July 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • My favorite workouts end with quaking muscles and the occasional dry-heave.
    — Diana Tsui, The Cut, 18 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Ball built a guitar with an aluminum neck and began placing his headstock on top of his amp, so that the quaking cabinet shook the strings by itself.
    — Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 25 June 2026
  • Ephemera directs the brain to the tiniest concrete nubs of consciousness, calming the quaking mind and bringing us back to ourselves.
    — Literary Hub, 20 May 2026
  • Roston sings with the soul-quaking conviction of gospel, only without the promise of redemption.
    — Nelson Pressley, Washington Post, 25 June 2019
  • 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
  • Sunday marks the first anniversary of the culture-quaking Women’s March.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 21 Jan. 2018
  • Three decades from my last episode sometimes a faint quiver in my cheek snaps me back to that distant physicality—a child unable to manage her own estate that quaked.
    — Literary Hub, 15 May 2026
  • 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
  • Meanwhile, Springfield Democrats shouldn’t be quaking in their shoes at this temper tantrum from their cronies in organized labor.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2026
  • The jiggly, quaking contraption is eye-catching—a natural social media star.
    — Julia Sullivan, Outside, 23 Dec. 2025
  • For those communities quaking in terror, simply waiting three years for a new president is not sufficient.
    — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2026

quake

2 of 2 noun
  • Is a frost quake the same as an ice quake?
    — Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Is a frost quake the same as an ice quake?
    — Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Ice quakes take place in glaciers or in lake ice.
    — Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Ice quakes take place in glaciers or in lake ice.
    — Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The quake struck at a depth of 53 miles.
    — CBS News, 2 Jan. 2026
  • The quake was recorded at 2 pm.
    — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 8 June 2026
  • The first quake was about 5 miles below.
    — Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Was Wednesday’s quake cause for alarm?
    — Reeti Malhotra, Sacbee.com, 24 June 2026
  • Do earthquake swarms mean a big quake is coming?
    — Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2026
  • But there have been fewer, much smaller quakes so far this year.
    — Los Angeles Times, Boston Herald, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Haptic floors quake beneath your step.
    — Bob Bonniol, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2025
  • There’s a breathless mood in the air that quivers and quakes at the protests to come.
    — Sara Stridsberg september 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The last major quake there was in 1868.
    — Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Like his home, they are now hollowed out reminders, and far worse than the quake.
    — Johnny Fils-Aimé, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Earlier in the week, a pair of quakes rattled the same area.
    — Chelsea Hylton, CBS News, 8 May 2026
  • So, exactly how does a frost or ice quake happen in our area?
    — Tammie Souza, CBS News, 7 Feb. 2026
  • There are no reports of damage or injury from the quake.
    — Chelsea Hylton, CBS News, 9 June 2026
  • How deep below Earth's surface were the quakes?
    — Bailey Allen, The Providence Journal, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Colton got a shaking, at about a mile from the quake’s epicenter.
    — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The beeping warnings for quakes went off on their cellphones.
    — Yuri Kageyama, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Jan. 2024
  • These powerful quakes could not have come at a worse time for Venezuela.
    — Helen Regan, CNN Money, 25 June 2026
  • That quake also shook buildings in Taipei.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 27 Dec. 2025
  • When a quake arrives, everything freezes and the video stops.
    — Pablo Larios, Artforum, 10 June 2026
  • Those quakes still reverberate to the present day.
    — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Jones says that this most recent set of quakes could be foreshocks for a much larger event.
    — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026
  • But after several weeks, the quakes dropped off.
    — Quanta Magazine, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Rapid drops in temperature like these can lead to frost quakes, ice quakes and lake quakes.
    — Tammie Souza, CBS News, 7 Feb. 2026
  • No one was killed in the quake but hundreds of buildings were damaged and dozens were red-tagged.
    — Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 22 Sep. 2025
  • There are no reports of injury or damage as a result of the quake.
    — Kassia Bonesteel, CBS News, 3 June 2026
  • There have been no reports of injuries or damage as a result of the quake.
    — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2026

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