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Example sentences for "quake"

Lexicographically close words:
quaintest; quaintly; quaintness; quais; quaite; quaked; quakes; quaking; quakings; qual
  1. O you who used so to shelter me Warm from the least wind,--why, now the east wind Is warmer than you, whom I quake to see.

  2. Oh, what's that in the hollow, so pale I quake to follow?

  3. The honest folks of New Amsterdam began to quake now for the fate of their matchless champion, Antony the Trumpeter, who had acquired prodigious favor in the eyes of the women by means of his whiskers and his trumpet.

  4. I take my vow, I felt my stomach quake when I beheld thee pluck up yon green tree as thou didst.

  5. Thou makest my poor stomach quake with joy for what thou tellest me so sweetly.

  6. All ears are mazed while tongues thine acts record, Hands quake for fear, all feet for dread do run, And though no realms you may to thraldom bring, No higher can your praise, your glory spring.

  7. The antelope, seeing men, began to tremble and quake with the fear of death, and ran hither and thither about the hall.

  8. But now whereas this guile-smith fains to dread mine enmity, And whetteth with a fashioned fear the bitter point of strife-- Nay, quake no more!

  9. Yea, sure the chiefs of Myrmidons quake at the Phrygian sword, Tydides and Achilles great, the Larissæan lord; And Aufidus the flood flees back unto the Hadriac sea.

  10. Ymir's disturbed slumbers make the earth quake and shudder; his awaking would bring about the end of things.

  11. Oh me, it made me quake to see Such sense within the slain!

  12. With these tools for work, every man went at the job, and in half an hour the crevice caused by the quake was temporarily filled up.

  13. Did you know we were lost in the 'quake last night?

  14. The very seriousness of her remark made her friends laugh, so that spirits rose accordingly, and just as they felt that the worst was over, another severe quake shook the ground they were speeding over.

  15. He had not been gone a minute before another severe quake shook the city so that it seemed as if the earth rose and fell in billows.

  16. If I quake, what matters it what I quake at?

  17. Haply Allah will bring thee to thy desire; and, if her parent will not consent, I will make his kingdom quake under him with an army, whose rear shall be with me whilst its van shall be upon him.

  18. But Doria singly will of the corsair With his own forces purge the briny flood: So that I see each continent and isle Quake at his name, from Calpe to the Nile.

  19. That owns a carcass, and not quake for fear?

  20. As much as he might school himself, he would be sure to quake to his inmost core when once again it flooded him.

  21. I quake in my very vitals when I think that you may love that boy more than me.

  22. This time, not Culver, but he is the pursuer, and the unknowing ones quake for their hero.

  23. The fame of whose name made all men quake and tremble, and who then had commaunded all the troupe of the Gentlemen of his Court, to go and seeke the forlorne louers, so long time lost and vnknowen.

  24. Lastly, don't Farley, a bewildered elf, Quake at the Pantomime he loves to cater, And ere its changes ring transform himself?

  25. The recent quake that had lifted the reef had ground much of this coral-work to dust.

  26. The men got scared at the earthquake this morning, sir, and after that second quake they flatly refused to stay ashore.

  27. Quite a little scare the men got, I suppose, when they felt the quake this morning?

  28. A quake of magnitude 2 is the smallest quake normally felt by people.

  29. At any moment might come another quake that would destroy the island and them with it.

  30. A second quake more awful than the first, a grinding, breaking noise as though the island sank into the sea.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quake" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    apoplexy; bounce; breakup; bump; cataclysm; chatter; chill; climax; convulsion; disaster; earthquake; falter; fidget; fit; flutter; freeze; glow; grimace; heave; hustle; impact; jar; jerk; jolt; jostle; jounce; jump; overthrow; palpitate; pant; paroxysm; quake; quaver; quiver; recoil; shake; shiver; shock; shudder; spasm; squirm; stroke; swell; thrill; throb; tingle; toss; totter; tremble; tremor; tsunami; tumble; twitch; twitter; upheaval; vibrate; wiggle; wobble; wriggle; writhe