quaking

Example Sentences

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But while Wembanyama is having the time of his life, every other team in the league is quaking in its boots.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026

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

He sounded quite irritated that they were asking him about such trivialities when he is the one who has world leaders quaking in their boots as he re-makes the whole world in his image.

From Salon • Feb. 19, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2024

The uphill road plunges through a quaking aspen grove.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George