"earthquake" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The mother and her newborn slept in the car for three days after the earthquake wrecked their house in this agricultural town 95 miles south of San Francisco.
- An earthquake wrecked the city in A.D. 363 and it never recovered.
- Unfortunately, the earthquake had overturned and wrecked the cart.
- The bureau had moved there in '93 after the earthquake wrecked the sheriff's department building downtown.
- IF an earthquake had wrecked the Los Angeles Convention Center last week, there would be no special-effects industry.
- Lasting little more than a minute, the earthquake wrecked 490 blocks, toppled a total of 25,000 buildings, broke open gas mains, cut off electric power lines, and effectively destroyed the gold rush capital that had stood there for a half century.
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