How to Use aftershock in a Sentence

aftershock

noun
  • The first aftershock came just minutes after the earthquake.
  • That comes from someone with firsthand knowledge of the aftershocks.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Within a few years, the aftershocks of that ruling would shake Gaston’s neighborhood—and the entire city of Birmingham—to its core.
    Victor Luckerson, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Since then, the family has set up a tent in the street out of fear of more aftershocks.
    Ghaith Alsayed, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2023
  • As time goes on, the USGS said, the number of aftershocks drops off.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 17 July 2019
  • Jones said aftershocks from the new main quake could occur for three years.
    Brady McCombs, The Denver Post, 5 July 2019
  • Every time things start to cool down, some aftershock comes and reminds them of the same fear.
    Brianna Milord, The New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2021
  • There were, there was one last Thursday too, and then there were two aftershocks.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The aftershock came late in the first quarter of the Magic-Spurs game and play was not affected.
    Roy Parry, orlandosentinel.com, 6 July 2019
  • Heavy snowfall and the more than 1,000 aftershocks raised the danger of more landslides.
    Yuri Kageyama, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Lesly and his family had slept in the streets until the aftershocks stopped.
    Jamie Goldberg, oregonlive, 1 Nov. 2019
  • Many had slept there since Saturday, fearing the aftershocks that have rolled through the city.
    Yaqoob Akbary, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The Ridgecrest earthquake and aftershocks struck at the Little Lake fault zone.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 17 July 2019
  • The quake was followed one minute later by a 3.9 aftershock.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2021
  • Three aftershocks, of magnitude 4.7 and 4.6, hit within less than an hour in the same region at the same depth.
    Danica Coto, The Denver Post, 23 Sep. 2019
  • The earthquake was an aftershock of the 7.1 earthquake that struck just north of Anchorage more than two years ago.
    Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Apr. 2021
  • And a subsequent aftershock on Friday added to the toll.
    Sasha Warren, Scientific American, 24 June 2022
  • Experts say the aftershocks could continue for a week — some may not be felt.
    CBS News, 25 Sep. 2019
  • In the first three weeks, there were 20 aftershocks of magnitude 6.0 or higher.
    Tim Arango, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2019
  • But the aftershock of being fired from his own band via email haunts the EP's most powerful moments.
    Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Alia Wong: The aftershocks of the pandemic keep coming.
    Alia Wong, USA TODAY, 2 July 2023
  • The earthquake was not an aftershock, said Stephen Holtkamp, a researcher at the earthquake center.
    Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Apr. 2021
  • The aftershock will likely last for the next couple of days, Russell told Fortune.
    Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2024
  • There’s even a chance—albeit a small one—of an aftershock bigger than the original quake.
    WIRED, 6 Feb. 2023
  • In 2008, Grosz felt the tremble of the Great Recession and just five years later, the aftershock of the Detroit bankruptcy.
    Detroit Free Press, 5 Mar. 2024
  • The aftershocks were reliving everything in my head over and over and over again.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The agency asks residents to remain calm and be on alert for more aftershocks.
    Fox News, 14 July 2019
  • Meanwhile, the aftershocks of abolition shook the South.
    USA Today, 26 Feb. 2020
  • The aftershocks of the latest wave of realignment threaten to end the kind of family feuds that made this sport matter.
    Kevin Scarbinsky | , al, 6 Aug. 2023
  • The men’s team is underfunded, the nation still dealing with the aftershocks of a civil war.
    C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 30 July 2024

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