Example sentences for: aftershocks

How can you use “aftershocks” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In 1866, Congress began to act on its responsibility to guard against the aftershocks of slavery by prohibiting discrimination in all facilities open to the public.

  • But most aftershocks happen soon after the primary quake.

  • Japan must reform its banks and maintain loose fiscal and monetary policy (even though that means a cheapened yen), or the rest of the world will soon feel the aftershocks of its recession.

  • The day after Taiwan's massive earthquake, newspapers reported that there had already been more than 2,000 aftershocks.

  • --Homeless Turkish carpenter Yusuf Okul, who often wields a hammer, reacts to recent aftershocks.


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