All 5 Uses of
waver
in
I Am the Cheese
- I swung out into the street and a car howled its horn at me for straying too far into the roadway— and I wavered on the bicycle, the front wheel wobbling.†
Chpt 1wavered = was unsure or weak; or moved back and forth
- For the first time, the animal seemed confused, the glittering eyes wavering in their intensity.†
Chpt 8wavering = moving back and forth; or being unsure or weak
- The rain is really coming down now, in wavering sheets, tossed by the wind.†
Chpt 11
- The car brushes by and hands reach out for me, pushing, grabbing, and I lose my balance, the bike wavers under me and heads for the ditch, the steep ravine by the side of the road, and I am helpless to halt its progress toward the ditch, and the wheels spin and I hear raucous laughter as I loom at the edge of the ditch and then feel myself falling, spinning, sucked into the ditch, sucked into the wetness and darkness of a sudden startling nighttime.†
Chpt 18wavers = moves back and forth; or is unsure or weak
- His huge figure wavers in the wetness of my tears, as if he is somehow underwater.
Chpt 24 *wavers = moving back and forth
Definition:
to move back and forth (shake or quiver)
or:
to change, be unsure, or weak
or:
to change, be unsure, or weak