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"Quake" in a Sentence (22 examples)
No major damage or injuries are known to have resulted from the quake measuring 3.0 on the Richter scale.
The Japan Meteorological Agency has revised the magnitude of the eastern Japan quake from 8.8 to 9.0, the largest recorded in world history.
At the Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant, all the reactors stopped just after the quake.
During the Golden Week holidays, many volunteers went to the quake and tsunami-hit areas in Tohoku.
If the wolf had made the girl quake with terror, it seemed like a lamb beside this dreadful lion.
Their story began five years ago, on March 11, when Japan was shaken by the largest earthquake ever to hit the island nation. The quake and resulting tsunami left more than 15,000 people dead, and crippled several nuclear reactors.
The quake damaged many old buildings.
Many old buildings were damaged by the quake.
The quake struck at 03:36 local time, 100 kilometers northeast of Rome, originating a mere 10 kilometers deep. Some buildings in the capital shook for 20 seconds.
Wednesday’s quake, whose epicenter was 125 kilometers or almost 78 miles away, shook and shuddered Celleno’s medieval and modern houses for about 20 seconds.
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We felt a quake in the apartment every time the train went by.
California is plagued by quakes; there are a few minor ones almost every month.
Well, everybody talks about the California quakes But the first time I ever felt the earth shake Was in Miami, when Amy touched me.
But HS1 was more exposed to the COVID quake than most given its inherent reliance on international travel, which had collapsed, leaving cross-Channel operator Eurostar stacked with millions of debt.
I felt the ground quaking beneath my feet.
Dorus threw Pamela behind a tree; where she stood quaking like the partridge on which the hawk is even ready to seize.
The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burnt at his presence.
Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
If Cupid have not spent all his quiver in / Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly.
Now could I drink hot blood / And do such bitter business as the bitter day / Would quake to look on.
Who honours not his father, Henry the fifth, that made all France to quake, Shake he his weapon at us, and pass by.
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and carefulness.
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