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    Use "earthquake" in a sentence

    earthquake example sentences

    earthquake


    1. I prefer to confront a natural disaster -a flood, an earthquake, a hurricane- than satanic humans


    2. Tina mentioned that the school children had received an assembly on the subject of the earthquake and had made a collection to help victims


    3. did want to celebrate our resurrection after the earthquake a year ago


    4. He sort of jumped in and offered to help with the legal side of the earthquake thing and has been hanging around generally helping


    5. In one famous instance the sign came, but too late, the sentence had already been carried out so the Goddess in her wrath smote the ground in an Earthquake that leveled the shrine where the sentence was carried out


    6. I honestly don’t know, but if they were in the centre of the earthquake zone, it would be a miracle if they did survive


    7. The ground shook like an earthquake and there came a loud sound in the distance; this sound sounded like


    8. ‘We’ve been trying to contact your father since the earthquake hit


    9. ‘Your parents were in their hotel … the hotel’s directly on the fault line and even though it had been built to resist earthquake damage and most of it was still standing, one wall collapsed


    10. Sally’s brother and his wife were killed in the earthquake; we found out lunchtime

    11. You made choices, choices which took you in different directions - ultimately, to the place where an earthquake set off a chain of events, and put an end to your existence


    12. I’d told him all about the earthquake last week but he’d been out of the office on Friday and hadn’t heard the latest


    13. great earthquake in the land of


    14. as you fled from the earthquake in


    15. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake


    16. After the earthquake was a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire


    17. Then there was an earthquake and the plateau began to shake


    18. The flap of a butterfly's wings in Central Park could ultimately cause an earthquake in China


    19. To demonstrate what he means by this, he gives an example of how an earthquake in China could ultimately cause a butterfly to flap its wings in Central Park


    20. It is a very singular government in which every member of the administration wishes to get out of the country, and consequently to have done with the government, as soon as he can, and to whose interest, the day after he has left it, and carried his whole fortune with him, it is perfectly indifferent though the whole country was swallowed up by an earthquake

    21. “Could an earthquake cause the effect?” suggested Fletcher


    22. He thought, if something like an earthquake occurred at this very moment; if everything in the room were to shake, the one thing that would remain fixed would be those glaring eyes of Aoife's


    23. I looked at my watch and saw that it had just gone 7:20hrs then a loud sound came to our ears from far away and the ground beneath us trembled as though in an earthquake this was a mine at Hawthorn Ridge that had been detonated


    24. She remembered the historical account of a woman who had saved her family from an earthquake prefiguring a tsunami – in the days before long-term detection – simply because a feeling that something terrible was about to happen


    25. 8 earthquake in Chile, February 27, 2010


    26. This was a devastating earthquake, one of the strongest ever recorded


    27. The earthquake was hardly felt in Namangan and those at home had no idea that anything had happened


    28. Then came an earthquake with its epicenter directly under Limon


    29. The government’s death knell was actually sounded six months earlier, on December 23, 1977, just prior to midnight when a violent earthquake struck Managua, collapsing half the buildings and burying thousands of people below rubble


    30. This time, it was the Samoza family itself accused of misappropriating (outright stealing) donated earthquake relief funds

    31. In April of 1991, a major earthquake measuring 7


    32. The caves had been formed out of some primeval earthquake that rocked the area several million years ago


    33. 0-magnitude earthquake caused a powerful tsunami in the Indian Ocean that hit twelve countries


    34. An earthquake off the Sumatran coast created a tsunami


    35. 6 earthquake killed eighty thousand people, and injured more than sixty-five thousand


    36. 9-magnitude earthquake hit Sichaun, Gansu, in the Yunnan province of Western China


    37. Indonesia was hit by an earthquake again, with a 7


    38. As they walked, they passed shop fronts that were boarded up, damaged by the earthquake that had shaken the region in September


    39. They looked up at the steeple tower, resting on grey blocks of stone, unshaken and unmoved by the earthquake


    40. As they finished their drinks, they wondered why Cathedral Square had been untouched by the earthquake, so fortunate

    41. "Why don't we give some of those winnings to the Salvo's rattling their can in front of the cathedral? They are collecting for the earthquake appeal" Ingrid suggested


    42. They turned north, heading towards the epicentre of the region's recent earthquake


    43. “Ok,” persisted Michelle, “but what about cases where something unanticipated happens after an election? What if the Party in charge can’t adhere to its promised spending level, but can only try to do that? Like the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a big earthquake in California, a war, or maybe even a deep recession?”


    44. Sardis and Thyatera were hit by a violent earthquake in AD 17


    45. “And there were noises and thunderings and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such a mighty and great earthquake as had not occurred since men were on the earth” (Rev


    46. And the earthquake of AD 17 might have diminished in advance the long-standing Jewish ability to influence the activities of the surrounding communities


    47. “And a loud voice came out of the temple of heaven…And there were noises and thunderings and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such a mighty and great earthquake as had not occurred since men were on the earth” (Rev


    48. In a reference to a large earthquake he did reveal that it was “such a mighty and great earthquake as had not occurred since men were on the earth” (bolding mine)


    49. And speaking about earthquakes, can you imagine what kind of an earthquake a mountain-size asteroid would have caused? Halfway around the earth from Chixalub is a formation in India called the Deccan Traps


    50. The earthquake was caused by subduction and triggered a series of devastating tsunamis along the coasts of most landmasses bordering the Indian Ocean, killing over 230,000 people in fourteen countries, and inundating coastal communities with waves up to 30 meters (98 ft












































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    Synonyms for "earthquake"

    earthquake quake seism temblor upheaval shake shock

    "earthquake" definitions

    shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane or from volcanic activity


    a disturbance that is extremely disruptive