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Example sentences for "quakes"

Lexicographically close words:
quaintness; quais; quaite; quake; quaked; quaking; quakings; qual; qualche; quale
  1. Many a one threatens, while he quakes for fear.

  2. Sky had darkened appreciably and explosions indicated further eruptions, yet no quakes rumbled or shook the ground.

  3. Time had cracked the stone and quakes had knocked it out of line .

  4. A Medina had hired a Gascon architect to do both mill and house but the French influence had long ago disappeared from the house, due to quakes and remodelings.

  5. It quakes greatly as it lies on the charger, but it quaked twice as much when it lay in his breast.

  6. Like a leaf quakes his heart within his side, Not that the snakes in other mode molest, But they such horror and such loathing bred, He shrieks, he groans, and gladly would be dead.

  7. Proud Forth quakes at his bellying sails; had not the wind suddenly shifted.

  8. Quakes before thy splendor, love, Seeking, as he ventures near, With his power thy breast to move!

  9. Make and preserve for him, far and near, The voice which Christendom quakes to hear?

  10. I don't know how you can tell on your planet when quakes or vulcanism are going to start, machines maybe.

  11. They know when quakes are coming, before they happen.

  12. Before God, if you're a man, you'll put your hand on my arm and tell me what trouble quakes your speech.

  13. Those two quakes so far came only a day apart!

  14. We now have reports that at the time of the Harkness and Medfield disasters, seismographs recorded simultaneous quakes off the coast of Alaska near the Aleutian chain.

  15. It just seems queer to me that both of those quakes should have destroyed vital defense factories!

  16. Miles pointed out that tremors along the fault might trigger off a chain of quakes amounting to a national disaster.

  17. I'm no expert, but perhaps they could have set off chain reactions below the earth's crust which triggered the two quakes in this part of the country.

  18. A list of places and dates, already checked off, showed the quakes that had occurred so far.

  19. Then the quakes at Harkness and Medfield were real earthquakes!

  20. On Earth, ocean levels rose and fell drastically with every passing hour, and the land was disrupted by quakes and great upheavals as the planet changed in its polarity.

  21. Two quakes occurred in the abyssal plain northwest of the Cape Verde Islands, and two were located near Theta Gap northwest of Cape Finistere.

  22. Several quakes were felt in Bermuda before instrumental recording was available to permit location of their epicenters.

  23. Most of these quakes occur on the bed of the ocean on the sides of a steep slope that extends down to a very deep part of the Pacific known as the Tuscarora Deep.

  24. With such things then attached and placed below, the earth quakes above from the shock of great falling masses, when underneath, time has undermined vast caverns.

  25. How headlong Rhone and Ebro, erst distain'd With Moorish carnage, quakes thro' all her branches!

  26. Whether the parts about the City of Constantinople or Asia Minor, be as subject to Earth-quakes now, as they have been formerly?

  27. Whether the Earth-quakes in Zant and Cephalonia be so frequent, as now and then to happen nine or ten times a Month?

  28. That quakes had not followed the landing of the first three was due to the fact that they had been far smaller than the fourth.

  29. Simultaneous with the falling of the meteor, the Earth was rocked by one of the worst quakes in history.

  30. So rather differently Wellhausen: I will make the ground quake under you, as a waggon quakes under its load of sheaves.

  31. An alternative reading supplies the same general impression of a crushing judgment: I will make the ground quake under you, as a waggon makes it quake, or as a waggon itself quakes under its load of sheaves.

  32. There are Church-quakes and State-quakes in the moral and political world, as well as earthquakes, storms, and tempests in the physical.

  33. All the quakes that ever shook this crazy old earth are bagatelles compared with such facts.

  34. At dead of night--and it is now dead of night--how the heart quakes on a sudden at the silent resurrection of buried thoughts!


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quakes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.