Example sentences for: quakes

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

  • In the three hours following Taiwan's mainshock, for example, there were only seven quakes that would have done more than lightly rattle dishes.

  • (Click here for a good explanation of the Richter scale and here for the effects of various quakes.)

  • In fact, seismologists have a rough method for predicting the number of aftershocks on a given day: It declines in inverse proportion to the time since the mainshock (i.e., day four has one-fourth the number of quakes as day one).

  • When one market quakes, others can tremble."

  • Relief teams complain that the Turkish government is encouraging them to leave, even though a 4-year-old was rescued from the rubble yesterday and survivors have been uncovered in ruins two weeks after previous quakes.


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