How to Use tectonic in a Sentence

tectonic

adjective

• There has been a recent tectonic shift in voting patterns.
• The Earth’s crust is made up of tectonic plates that move.
  — Ben Finley, ajc, 16 Aug. 2021
• The region sits on the edge of the Tibetan Plateau where tectonic plates meet.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2022
• For Biden, the real thrust of the visit was more tectonic.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 15 July 2022
• The deal comes in the context of major tectonic shifts in the Middle East.
  — Seth J. Frantzman, National Review, 14 Aug. 2020
• That’s where two of the tectonic plates that make up the Earth’s crust meet up and slide alongside each other.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 18 Apr. 2023
• The vertical fault vents the fluids from the plate boundary – the megathrust fault where the tectonic plates meet – to the seafloor.
  — Gwozniac, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
• Now, in a very short time, a tectonic shift has occurred.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2022
• The moon meeting Uranus shifts you around like a tectonic plate.
  — USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2024
• The Earth is covered by 15 to 20 shifting tectonic plates that rest on the molten rock of its mantle.
  — Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Oct. 2022
• But at some places deep in the oceans, the parting of tectonic plates causes the mantle to be exposed.
  — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Aug. 2024
• The seismic, tectonic impact could trigger the Ring of Fire to erupt as well.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 13 Nov. 2020
• The Sunda and Australian tectonic plates collide here, which is what formed the Mentawais.
  — Michael Robinson Chavez, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
• The invention of the internet and the rise of ecommerce are the latest tectonic changes in the retail world.
  — Nick Kasmik, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2024
• Idaho is part of the Basin and Range tectonic province.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 8 July 2020
• Experts say the tectonic shifts from the quake pushed the ground up 13 feet in some areas and moved it sideways by more than 3 feet.
  — Janis MacKey Frayer, NBC News, 7 Jan. 2024
• Far from the clash of tectonic plates is the geologic wonder that is the Grand Canyon.
  — Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2021
• The small town sits on the tip of the rugged Kenai Peninsula, directly above where the tectonic plates meet.
  — Chuong Nguyen, Ars Technica, 27 Nov. 2023
• The speed and scale of the flight reflect the tectonic shift the invasion touched off inside Russia.
  — New York Times, 13 Mar. 2022
• The waxy shell should come apart in large chunks, peeling away in tectonic plates to reveal the feather-free goose skin.
  — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 23 Dec. 2020
• Taiwan lies near the junction of two tectonic plates and is prone to earthquakes.
  — NBC News, 24 Oct. 2021
• The Surfrider sits snugly in the crease of the earth where the steep hills of Malibu lean toward the ocean, the tectonic hinge of the California dream.
  — Kristin Scharkey, Sunset Magazine, 11 Jan. 2022
• There’s even a fake news broadcast about how the chaos from Trav’s Italy concert shook the tectonic plates to cause an earthquake.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 24 Sep. 2024
• Yet, the tectonic plates of the party were already shifting.
  — Elizabeth Rees / Made By History, TIME, 1 Nov. 2024
• Aside from the big world building and the massive tectonic plates of ideas and such, there is a lot of thematic crossover.
  — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 17 July 2024
• Continents sit on tectonic plates—slabs of crust that float on the mantle.
  — Jenny Wu, Science | AAAS, 21 Jan. 2021
• The team then used the same tectonic models to rewind time to find where on the planet those prime locations were back in the Ordovician.
  — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2024
• These plates, called tectonic plates, can push against each other.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2024
• But looking at the West Coast itself, the tectonic forces are a little more complex.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 24 Oct. 2020
• Few showrunners ever achieve Murphy’s reach, and few undergo such tectonic shifts in their perspective and aims.
  — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024