How to Use fault line in a Sentence

fault line

noun

• 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
• And one of the fault lines appears to be widening over the crisis in Gaza.
  — Keir Simmons, NBC News, 25 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Those weak spots, likely caused by movements deep in the Earth’s crust, cause cracks and fault lines in the earth.
  — Megan Friedman, Popular Mechanics, 5 Apr. 2018
• 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
• The strongest fault line might be around climate change and trade, said Abreu.
  — Jean Chemnick, Scientific American, 31 May 2018
• 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 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
• Along the boundaries of each of these plates are many fault lines, where most of the planet’s earthquakes are known to occur.
  — Everyday Einstein Sabrina Stierwalt, Scientific American, 15 Jan. 2020
• But these don’t form due to shifting tectonic plates, like fault lines on the surface of the Earth.
  — National Geographic, 3 July 2019
• But the Rams are coming off a home loss to Tampa Bay that exposed some fault lines up front.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2019
• That’s why many who spoke to Fortune don’t point to the Bezos-Jassy transition as the main fault line.
  — Jason Del Rey, Fortune, 31 July 2024
• Yet the showdown would also emphasize certain fault lines in the Recording Academy and in the music business at large involving race, genre and authenticity — and not for the first time.
  — Mikael Wood, Twin Cities, 26 Oct. 2024
• The case has rattled fault lines surrounding race, homelessness, perceptions of public safety and bystanders’ responsibility.
  — Jennifer Peltz, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024