How to Use tremor in a Sentence

tremor

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  • Small tremors were still being felt several days after the earthquake.
  • The Start of the Wobble The first tremor came about a year and a half after Imbrie’s proof.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The man’s body shook with a wild tremor that nearly knocked him down again.
    — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The glove fits—and fights the tremors of Parkinson’s The GyroGlove dampens tremors in the wearer’s hand.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Jan. 2024
  • People in the capital of Port-au-Prince felt the tremor and many rushed into the streets in fear.
    — Fox News, 14 Aug. 2021
  • Over 9,000 aftershocks and two more tremors have occurred in the region since the quakes.
    — Ibtissem Guenfoud, ABC News, 27 Feb. 2023
  • There have been hundreds of aftershocks and tremors still shake the region.
    — Raja Abdulrahim Nicole Tung, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2023
  • The tremors sent ripples throughout the surrounding area.
    — Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The tremor registered as a 5.4 magnitude earthquake, among the largest recorded in the state.
    — J. David Goodman, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Jan. 2023
  • The tremor of conflict in 2014 turned into an earthquake as far as Russia and the West were concerned.
    — Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 19 June 2023
  • The first symptom may be a barely noticeable tremor in just one hand.
    — Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Why had there not been even a tremor of doubt through the fantasies of being some new Walt Whitman-Cheryl Strayed hybrid?
    — Leyton Cassidy, Longreads, 7 May 2024
  • The tremor was measured at an initial depth of 80 kilometers (50 miles).
    — Junko Ogura, CNN, 7 Oct. 2021
  • More than 2,400 people from as far away as Coarsegold reported feeling the tremor to the agency.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 2 June 2024
  • If Lemon’s firing is a tremor, Carlson’s is an earthquake.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 24 Apr. 2023
  • If the investors have to dump their holdings, only a minor market tremor will be felt.
    — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
  • People in Port-au-Prince felt the tremor and many rushed into the streets in fear, although there did not appear to be damage there.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 15 Aug. 2021
  • That sent tremors through the shipyard of Kimek, the largest industrial employer in the region.
    — Melissa Eddy Patrick Junker, New York Times, 10 July 2023
  • The symptoms include stiffness, a slowing of body movements and tremors.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Its first tremors are already being felt, and nowhere more than in global culture.
    — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Family Man’s powerful bass ripples through the song with the force of a seismic tremor.
    — Patricia Meschino, Rolling Stone, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Two days after the initial tremor, a military helicopter brought supplies and on the fifth day the road was cleared.
    — Tanya Titova, Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Cristina puts her career in jeopardy to help Burke hide his hand tremor after he’s shot.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 31 May 2024
  • More than 6,000 people from as far away as Anaheim and San Diego reported feeling the tremor to the agency.
    — Daniella Segura, Sacramento Bee, 1 May 2024
  • But just 44 seconds of focused ultrasound waves got rid of her tremor.
    — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 15 Jan. 2023
  • The downside, though, is that every volcanic eruption or tremor in the area is a reminder of the fear that plagues the people who call the surrounding area home.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 15 Feb. 2022
  • That one also caused no major damage, but the tremors were a surprise to the East Coast, where earthquakes are far less common.
    — Kate Talerico, The Mercury News, 6 Apr. 2024
  • The tremor was the strongest to strike the region since the one that had decimated Mexico City 32 years earlier to the day.
    — New York Times, 15 Mar. 2021
  • More than 300 people as far away as Kenosha, Wisconsin, reported feeling the tremor to the agency.
    — Mike Stunson, Kansas City Star, 15 July 2024
  • People in cities and suburbs to the west of the Windy City, like Aurora, reported feeling weak or light shaking, however the tremors would not have been strong enough to cause damage.
    — Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 15 July 2024

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