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Meanings of quivering in English
Synonyms
Examples for "shaking"
Examples for "shaking"
1
Failing to do that could risk an economy-shaking U.S. government debt default.
2
So, you are talking very intense shaking over quite a large area.
3
Her voice shaking, Michael's sister Jodie read a statement outside the court.
4
The most continuous experience has been unsuccessful in shaking this grave delusion.
5
All she had said so far was hello, in a shaking voice.
1
The night is calm; millions of stars are trembling in the sky.
2
The issue was trembling in the balance, and McTurtle answered the call.
3
He saw the Cure bowed in prayer; he heard the trembling voice.
4
Beta-blockers are misused to decrease the heart rate and stop possible trembling.
5
He is afraid; he crouches like the panther in the trap, trembling.
1
To the shivering servant who stood in the hall the leader called:
2
She was hungry; she was thirsty; she was shivering with the cold.
3
The nurse joined them, and the three stood there in shivering terror.
4
I won't let them frighten us.' Jasmine stood shivering at the window.
5
While I lay shivering on my ladder, our situation grew extremely critical.
1
The pair signed a shaky peace deal last year but violence continues.
2
The longest US bull market in history has been looking shaky recently.
3
Quvenzhané Wallis is, however, looking shaky for best a best actress nomination.
4
Inside was a note on lined paper, written in a shaky hand:
5
The letter case contained only a brief note in a shaky hand.
1
Something in the words and in the appealing beauty made Marg quiver.
2
And the very quiver in his voice seemed in a manner intentional.
3
All the arrows in the quiver of his noble wrath are spent.
4
Their latticed roots seemed to quiver with the violence of the gesture.
5
The thin walls seem to quiver under the pressure of the air.
1
In each case they stimulated the atomic vibration of the particular building-
2
Color reflects the vibration of the energy, and thus its individual nature.
3
The switch apparently remains open for target vibration around a stationary position.
4
The product they prototyped combined augmented reality with multiple tiny vibration motors.
5
Something had changed; the whole vibration of its lines were subtly new.
1
Then the quaking ceased; and that was the last of the earthquake.
2
He ducked behind one of the sea chests and crouched there, quaking.
3
With a quaking hand I type in the numbers on the keypad.
4
She looked at him, quaking like an owl out in the sunlight.
5
At other times it was through the quaking bog or treacherous muskeg.
1
When I was a boy I had the palpitation of the heart.
2
The doctor felt at that moment a strange palpitation at his own.
3
The hunger palpitation at the pit of the stomach was sickening.
4
The signora received the assurance with very little palpitation or appearance of surprise.
5
The following night he was attacked with palpitation of the heart.
1
That shakiness added to concerning signs from the end of last season.
2
Her voice was strained, and he could sense the shakiness under it.
3
Do you suppose the Imperium could expose its shakiness in this manner?
4
Low blood glucose levels can cause symptoms of sweating, shakiness and confusion.
5
She hoped he thought her shakiness was due to the accident.
Usage of quivering in English
1
I'd left him a quivering mass curled beside a lonely country road.
2
Her maternal pride and social prestige were both quivering under the blow.
3
The Arab villages upon their little hills disappeared in the quivering gold.
4
Then suddenly she drew in her breath in a long quivering sigh.
5
The ancient tower is quivering from the violent blows of the waves.
6
The quivering lips repeated huskily the name of the child he loved.
7
The sunshine fell across the dusty room in a long, quivering shaft.
8
The next moment every nerve in his body was leaping and quivering.
9
Then he saw the trouble in her eyes and her quivering mouth.
10
The tender-hearted woman rose, approached the bedside and kissed the quivering lips.
11
She came to him and said with a quivering in her voice:
12
With a thud an arrow had buried itself quivering in the fence.
13
He can feel the knife quivering, eager to carry out its task.
14
Bess retreated toward the door, quivering under the injustice of the charge.
15
It shows me Marie, quivering a little; it gilds her pale face.
16
Jesper's bottom lip was quivering by now, he wanted to go home.
About this term
Frequent collocations
Translations for quivering
Portuguese
Catalan
Quivering through the time
Quivering across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common
Ireland
Rare