Example sentences for: quake

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

  • The paper points out that in 1997, a respected (though unnamed) journal singled out Izmit as most vulnerable to a quake.

  • Against this backdrop of stars, any mortal would quake.

  • The WP devotes its front-page quake coverage to the story of 40-year-old Yuksel Er, who was pulled from the wreckage of his apartment building south of Istanbul Saturday after spending 97 hours trapped beneath rubble.

  • A leader in Britain's Observer took an unusual position, claiming that the carelessly erected buildings of the 1980s, which have been blamed for the quake's massive death toll, represent Turkey's "attempt to escape from stagnation and backwardness by letting private enterprise rip."

  • Finger-pointing over western Turkey's ill preparedness for the quake began in some places before rescue and relief efforts, the WP reports.


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