How to Use fault line in a Sentence

fault line

noun

• The strongest fault line might be around climate change and trade, said Abreu.
  — Jean Chemnick, Scientific American, 31 May 2018
• The fault lines of our new online polities run under and through the borders of the old, legacy ones.
  — Antonio García Martínez, WIRED, 11 May 2018
• Oregon sits about 70 miles from the Cascadia subduction zone, an offshore fault line that's overdue for a big quake.
  — Elliot Njus, OregonLive.com, 9 May 2018
• As in Jos, demonstrators in several cities also bonded across typical fault lines.
  — Innocent Eteng, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Aug. 2024
• Like most groups, African Americans are divided along the fault lines of age and class, education and gender.
  — Solomon Jones, Philly.com, 1 May 2018
• God of War, then, is an endlessly dissonant and self-contradictory game, cut across the same fault lines as its protagonist.
  — Julie Muncy, WIRED, 25 Apr. 2018
• The third component of her installation, accompanying her fault line and sunglasses, is a dividing wall with chairs planted on either side.
  — New York Times, 3 June 2018
• Sinkholes tend to occur along earthquake fault lines—of which there are several in New Zealand—but recent seismic activity is not to blame for the chasm in Rotorua.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 9 May 2018
• The 800-mile San Andreas Fault is one of the largest fault lines in the world.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 14 July 2023
• The quake had a depth of about 3.7 miles, and was east of the Calaveras fault line.
  — Shwanika Narayan, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Feb. 2021
• Health care is emerging as a key fault line in the race.
  — Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 June 2018
• The shocks and fault lines of such growth were visible throughout the town.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2023
• And in some ways this was one of many dramatic fault lines.
  — New York Times, 16 July 2019
• An island of rocks juts out of the river, the result of the Cleveland Hill fault line.
  — Jessica Yadegaran, The Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2019
• Here, the fault line is as obvious as the next election.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 July 2021
• This fault line persists across the country (see chart above).
  — The Economist, 29 Feb. 2020
• Gardine said the two quakes were not connected or on the same fault line.
  — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Apr. 2021
• One fault line is a willingness to share the spoils with allies.
  — Anthea Roberts, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2021
• But a much longer stretch of fault line was affected in this case: at least 750 miles.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 28 Oct. 2022
• But since Trump left the White House the old fault lines have re-appeared and grown much wider over the past year, the Marquette polling shows.
  — Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2024
• Our main source of water is 167 miles away, and crosses three fault lines.
  — Dominic Fracassa, SFChronicle.com, 20 Nov. 2019
• This, in turn, has surfaced old Yemeni fault lines, between north and south.
  — Bobby Ghosh, The Denver Post, 24 Aug. 2019
• But the crack is real, a literal fault line in the fantasy world of the pool.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2022
• The area sits along seismic fault lines within the Ring of Fire, where most of the planet’s quakes occur.
  — Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Apr. 2024
• This is a major fault line between Left and Right, and has been for centuries.
  — Oren Cass, National Review, 5 Mar. 2021
• In the United States, the fault lines often involve the role of religion and the pace of social change.
  — Cathy Young, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2018
• People living along the Kabri fault line today may want to take notice of the study.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Sep. 2020
• The book-burning did not so much expose fault lines of race as deepen them.
  — Moriah Balingit, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2019
• The fight over the school exposed a fault line between two of the state’s top Republican politicians.
  — Andy Rose, CNN, 25 June 2024
• Vicente and his girls have trouble speaking directly to the fault lines that have built up over the years between them.
  — Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024