Sample Sentences for
tremulous
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    Then more lines appeared, one by one, tremulous arcs and circles sweeping through the darkness.  (source)
    tremulous = quivering
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    a tremulous voice called out.  (source)
    tremulous = quivering (shaky)
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    Now and again an ancestral spirit or egwugwu appeared from the underworld, speaking in a tremulous, unearthly voice and...  (source)
    tremulous = quivering
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    Rubbed his eyes with tremulous hands.  (source)
    tremulous = quivering (shaky)
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    "I think so," said Neville tremulously.  (source)
    tremulously = with a quivering (shaky) voice -- usually from weakness or fear
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    Ronnie heard the tremulousness of her own voice.  (source)
    tremulousness = shakiness (trembling or quivering)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    The voice was almost tremulous with enthusiasm.  (source)
    tremulous = quivering (shaky)
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    Derby was imagining letters to home, his lips working tremulously.  (source)
    tremulously = with quivering
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    ...the musicians looked at each other and smiled as if at their own nervousness and folly, and made whispering vows, each to the other, that the next chiming of the clock should produce in them no similar emotion; and then, after the lapse of sixty minutes ... there came yet another chiming of the clock, and then were the same disconcert and tremulousness and meditation as before.  (source)
    tremulousness = fear (often shown through a quivering voice)
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    The trying nature of his position drove the blood from his cheek, and made his lips tremulous.  (source)
    tremulous = quiver
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    Now, tremulously, experimentally, daring to test, the Witch inhaled.  (source)
    tremulously = with quivering (shakiness)
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    "Ah!" she said with eager tremulousness; "but not till I have proved myself a faithful and deserving wife to him, and then he may forgive me everything!"†  (source)
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    and Lucy went with him, laying a rather tremulous hand on his mane.  (source)
    tremulous = quivering (usually from fear)
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