- present participle of shake.
shaking
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"We were panicking. When the shaking eased a little, we immediately pushed his bed and took him outside."
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
Arnold Welianto, who lives in Talibura village, Sikka, East Nusa Tenggara, told the BBC that he was still asleep when he felt the "very strong shaking".
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
"The shaking was strong. Thankfully, we were already outside the house," he told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
Oil, hunters and Dr. Phil: How a long-shot project is shaking Up Greenland.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
Old Rupert was shaking his fist in the miller’s face.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
Nothing fell to the floor or broke, but it reminded him of the January shakings and made him worry that a big quake like that occurred even five months later.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2024
The first shakings came in 1972, when the players went on strike over their pension fund; the season lost 86 games out of a total of more than 160.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 29, 2012
In the 1960s, scientists set up seismometers across the world, allowing them to measure and record the slightest shakings almost anywhere.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2011
Even more unnerving, because they are less well understood and capable of occurring anywhere at any time, are the rarer type of shakings known as intraplate quakes.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
He shook his head, quick vision-clearing shakings and established himself in the world once more.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
