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

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

From Salon • Nov. 9, 2024

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 • Feb. 15, 2024

I must ask for my husband, I thought, and found myself quaking.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya