5 uses
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Definition
to move back and forth (shake or quiver)
or:
to change, be unsure, or weak
or:
to change, be unsure, or weak
- His huge figure wavers in the wetness of my tears, as if he is somehow underwater.Chapter 24 (80% in)
wavers = moving back and forth (in this case, appearing to move back and forth)
- 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.Chapter 1 (83% in)
- For the first time, the animal seemed confused, the glittering eyes wavering in their intensity.Chapter 8 — TAPE OZK004 (79% in)
- The rain is really coming down now, in wavering sheets, tossed by the wind.Chapter 11 (39% in)
- 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.Chapter 18 (94% in)
There are no more uses of "waver" in I Am the Cheese.
Typical Usage
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