How to Use tremble in a Sentence

tremble

1 of 2 verb
Definition of tremblenext
Synonyms for tremblenext
  • The house trembled as the big truck drove by.
  • I opened the letter with trembling hands.
  • His arms and legs began to tremble.
  • My voice trembled as I began to speak.
  • By the time Legacy reached the net, her whole body was trembling.
    — Melody Chiu, PEOPLE.com, 26 July 2019
  • At the Tidal Basin, the cherry blossoms seem to be trembling at the verge of full bloom.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2024
  • Some show child survivors trembling, the shock on tiny faces grimed with blood and ash.
    — Hazem Balousha, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
  • His eyes got wide and his hands began to tremble and the hot coffee went all over the floor.
    — New York Times, 15 June 2021
  • One speaker trembled as their eyes scanned the 29-page list.
    — Tiana Woodard, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2023
  • My leg trembled so hard on the pedal the truck shuddered.
    — Maggie Slepian, Longreads, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Betty trembles and looks down at her hands, one of which holds a big rock.
    — Jessica MacLeish, Teen Vogue, 12 Dec. 2019
  • His anger would make the earth tremble and the sun go dark; calm was restored by Achamán, the Supreme Being.
    — Sarah Souli, Travel + Leisure, 4 June 2023
  • The crowd will roar with such passion that the Churchill Downs grandstand will tremble.
    — Tim Layden, SI.com, 2 May 2018
  • Others tremble in their seats or bury their heads in their hands.
    — Karen De Sa, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2018
  • Tendrils of Spanish moss tremble in the breeze, and the sand is soft beneath our feet.
    — Kiley Bense, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
  • As the jeep curled down the mountain and into the village, his hands began to tremble.
    — Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2021
  • When the ground began to tremble, neighbors ran through the streets to rouse those still sleeping.
    — Heba Farouk Mahfouz, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2023
  • In the dome of her head, the mercury of all things was trying to tremble together.
    — Patricia Lockwood, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
  • Hands trembling, Ashanty tried to untie the rope but couldn’t.
    — Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Hands trembling, Ashanty tried to untie the rope but couldn't.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 14 Feb. 2020
  • The white words tremble against a black ground; colors flicker around their edges.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2018
  • Our first sight is a naked Pius receiving a sponge bath from a trembling young nun.
    — Mike Hale, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2020
  • In 1963, Charles F. Wurster held a trembling robin that died moments later in his hands.
    — Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
  • The slender necklace was trembling on her smooth brown throat.
    — Colin Barrett, Harper's magazine, 5 July 2019
  • That’s more than can be said for the white townsfolk, who seethe and tremble from a careful distance.
    — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 28 June 2018
  • But 20 games are enough of a sample size to make opponents tremble a bit.
    — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Nov. 2022
  • At that speed, the manual steering is light and full of trembling fear—as far as feel goes, there isn't much.
    — Clifford Atiyeh, Car and Driver, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Ishii grovels and trembles on the floor while being yelled at, as the real culprit looks on.
    — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Few hours pass without the sound of explosions, some close enough to make the windows tremble.
    — Whitney Leaming, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2023
  • But as Gdud raised his pistol his hand began to tremble.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2020
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tremble

2 of 2 noun
  • And over there all our ideas of right and wrong tremble.
    — Emanuela Barbiroglio, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Yet again, the buildings tremble and the cell signals fail.
    — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2023
  • And that’s the kind of name that should make some of his enemies tremble.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Cut the square in half and the custard inside doesn’t so much gush as tremble.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2023
  • The 17-year-old says nothing, but his lower lip trembles.
    — Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Feel a tremble in your stomach, in your chest, in your fingertips.
    — Shelly Oria, Longreads, 2 July 2018
  • But at the time of her death, the reporter who had once made executives tremble had not published a scoop in nearly a decade.
    — Jacob Bernstein, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2023
  • Some dogs will panic, pace, drool, and tremble upon hearing the first crack of thunder or pop from a firework.
    — Cathy M. Rosenthal, ExpressNews.com, 26 June 2020
  • And for those who blench and tremble at the thought of audience participation, take a breath.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2022
  • The yellow eyes of a snowy egret tremble uncontrollably.
    — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The leaves tremble, shedding the drops, which fall and join their countless comrades already percolating through the soil, toward the water table and thence to the mighty ocean.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2020
  • At the end, a timpani roll is muted to sound almost gonglike, with Ms. Koh’s violin a coppery tremble above it.
    — New York Times, 1 Jan. 2021
  • Instead, its trembles are thought to come from the slow cooling of the planet over time, which causes the orb to contract and develop fractures on its surface.
    — National Geographic, 23 Apr. 2019
  • Gorski was a star in baseball and soccer in high school at Hamilton Southeastern, a kid with the kind of raw power that makes pitchers tremble and scouts drool.
    — Wilson Moore, The Indianapolis Star, 28 June 2022
  • Her phrases swell, tremble and spill over into melismas, and her verses crest with two different peaks.
    — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Over time, many small infatuations rippled the surface of her mind, like the spring breeze that makes new leaves tremble without changing their life’s course.
    — Tove Ditlevsen, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021
  • In the sky an airplane is on its side, turning east with its belly up, its engines whining, a rumble in its wake that is felt in the gut, an additional tremble in the limbs.
    — Keith Ridgway, The Atlantic, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Thus there may not be a simple way to decipher whether an early warning sign is an omen of a major, more destructive quake or a tiny tremble.
    — Everyday Einstein Sabrina Stierwalt, Scientific American, 15 Jan. 2020
  • The faint signal, which came on April 6, is the first tremble that scientists believe comes from the Martian interior, rather than from surface forces, such as wind.
    — National Geographic, 23 Apr. 2019
  • But there’s a tinge of uncertainty — a tremble of possible tension.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 26 Dec. 2021
  • Why not spend your evenings sitting side by side at the dining-room table with your spouse, trying to determine whether your downstairs neighbors’ ceiling fan is making the floor tremble?
    — Cora Frazier, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
  • For those attuned to perceive it, the great weight of this knowledge comes to rest within a wordless contemplative space, making the heart tremble as readily as any sermon or hymn.
    — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 12 July 2022
  • Her voice is soft but substantial, and contains an airy tremble that sometimes resembles birdsong.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2020
  • One member of the organization fought off tears while discussing the fear -- and accompanying tremble -- that runs through when being pulled over.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 9 June 2020
  • Sister Mary, a wily, possibly addled nun/mother figure played with fretful tremble by Diane Keaton.
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 13 Jan. 2017
  • There’s something though, in this ceremony, that usually stays buried: the struggle of the parturient that accompanies the tremble of creation; the mother’s womb where poetry blooms, from shape to shape.
    — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 19 May 2020
  • His three grown sons tremble and grovel in his presence, none more than his youngest son, Joji (Fahadh Faasil), who seems to be around thirty and is bitterly frustrated—including with himself.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 1 June 2021
  • Alexis Taylor croons in a high, understanding tremble, and Joe Goddard offers plummy, sad ballast.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 25 June 2019
  • The researchers have installed a complex network of sensors that monitor Mayon’s every tremble and burp and are using their vast amounts of knowledge garnered from past events to interpret the volcano’s every shiver.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Analyses are getting better, and data are accruing on seismometers around the world that are constantly listening for our planet’s every tremble.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, National Geographic, 19 Aug. 2019

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