Examples of world-shaking in a Sentence
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Pascal, 50, plays Joel, a strong-willed and protective father figure to Ellie (Bella Ramsey), amidst a world-shaking apocalypse in the HBO series.
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Stephanie Wenger, People.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Be among the first to experience the high-tech thrills, shocking twists, and emotional moments that push the Straw Hats closer to a world-shaking future.
—Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2025
Raiders of the Lost Ark' (1981) The first Indiana Jones movie – with lots of Nazi-punching and world-shaking religious implications – is the perfect action adventure.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 20 June 2025
Three years later, Apple would be reborn, starting out on its 2001-10 run of unleashing world-shaking devices and services including the iPod, iPhone, iPad and iTunes.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 11 June 2025
Given that Chinese head of state Xi Jinping has told his country's military to be prepared for that invasion by 2027, now is the time to head off the digital salient of what could be a world-shaking future war.
—Wired Staff, WIRED, 30 Dec. 2024
But that is enough space to nod to Chappell Roan’s meteoric rise and the hold that Brat Summer had on the collective imagination, as well as Future and Metro Boomin’s world-shaking collaboration and Tyla’s vision of Afropop.
—Maura Johnston, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2024
Commissions were created and reports written after 9/11 and the Iraq War, DeSantis said, but there’s been no such commission for COVID-19 despite it also being a world-shaking event.
—Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 10 Feb. 2024
The French Revolution and its unsettled aftermath—a world-shaking era in many respects—made Vesuvius into an emblem of cataclysmic transformation.
—Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 24 Nov. 2023
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Stephanie Wenger, People.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Be among the first to experience the high-tech thrills, shocking twists, and emotional moments that push the Straw Hats closer to a world-shaking future.
—Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2025
Raiders of the Lost Ark' (1981) The first Indiana Jones movie – with lots of Nazi-punching and world-shaking religious implications – is the perfect action adventure.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 20 June 2025
Three years later, Apple would be reborn, starting out on its 2001-10 run of unleashing world-shaking devices and services including the iPod, iPhone, iPad and iTunes.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 11 June 2025
Given that Chinese head of state Xi Jinping has told his country's military to be prepared for that invasion by 2027, now is the time to head off the digital salient of what could be a world-shaking future war.
—Wired Staff, WIRED, 30 Dec. 2024
But that is enough space to nod to Chappell Roan’s meteoric rise and the hold that Brat Summer had on the collective imagination, as well as Future and Metro Boomin’s world-shaking collaboration and Tyla’s vision of Afropop.
—Maura Johnston, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2024
Commissions were created and reports written after 9/11 and the Iraq War, DeSantis said, but there’s been no such commission for COVID-19 despite it also being a world-shaking event.
—Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 10 Feb. 2024
The French Revolution and its unsettled aftermath—a world-shaking era in many respects—made Vesuvius into an emblem of cataclysmic transformation.
—Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 24 Nov. 2023
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“World-shaking.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/world-shaking. Accessed 21 Nov. 2025.
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