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Example sentences for: quakes

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

Several priceless frescoes were severely damaged or destroyed, notably invaluable works by Cimabue (1226–1337) featured on a portion of the Upper Church’s vaulted ceiling, which plunged to the floor during the quakes.
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.
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."
(Click here for a good explanation of the Richter scale and here for the effects of various quakes.)