Example sentences for: tectonic

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

  • Susan Faludi's men are being crushed as the tectonic plates of history roil and split and mow them down.

  • Hickman points out that married women in general tend to be very pro-incumbent, which somewhat undermines the argument that voting for Bush in 1992 and Clinton in '96 represents some sort of tectonic shift.

  • Earthquakes are caused by the sudden release of pressure that has built up between two tectonic plates.

  • Down in the basement is the really interesting display: an array of seismographs busily recording the movement of the vast tectonic plates deep below.

  • In geopolitics, the dour Samuel Huntington also sees tribes but predicts a tectonic "clash of civilizations."


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