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    quaver example sentences

    quaver


    quavered


    quavering


    quavers


    1. Jhordel’s voice had a quaver in it as she spoke, but that was from the shaking of the ship


    2. “Is Betty home?” I asked, with just the hint of a quaver in my voice


    3. “Mine? Hathor’s hair, could this be coming from as far away as that cloud from the north?” Moshe asked, suddenly struck by Youssaf’s reference, trying to keep the quaver of rising panic from his voice, as everyone scurried to put Youssaf’s advice into effect


    4. “Are you sure?” the old voice still held some quaver, but firmed as he looked closely at Moshe


    5. “Just the sun on the water!” Came a shouted reassurance, but a quaver in the delivery


    6. Moshe asked, suddenly struck by Youssaf's reference, trying to keep the quaver of rising panic


    7. Rivera replied with a quaver in his voice


    8. “Er, no thank you,” said Ambrosius with a quaver


    9. “You look… stunning,” he said with a quaver in his voice


    10. Sam could tell from the tension and slight quaver in Robert’s voice that the issue was serious

    11. Her hand really did quaver and the old lady


    12. "What are you looking for?" She said, noting the slight quaver in her own voice


    13. “Yes, well…,” murmured Edgar, fighting to still the quaver in his voice


    14. In that moment she felt the whole crushing misery of being weak, and sick, and old,--so old that you have outlived your claims to everything but the despotic care of charitable ladies, so old that you are a mere hurdy-gurdy, expected each time any one in search of edification chooses to turn your handle to quaver out tunes of immortality


    15. trinar to trill, quaver


    16. 'What's going on?' His attempt to sound casual was thwarted by his voice, which disobeyed orders and came out as a high-pitched quaver


    17. ” A quaver had found its way into my voice


    18. ' Then his voice began to quaver with a passionately sad tone and tears sprang into his


    19. Laurence, who looked quite taken aback, and held out her hand, saying, with only a small quaver in her voice, "I came to thank you, sir, for


    20. His voice was saturated with sarcasm, but the quaver was still there

    21. “I’m prepared to hear whatever it is you have to tell me, Seijin,” he said without a quaver, and realized it was true


    22. Now there was an actual quaver at its core, and his hands played nervously with his pectoral scepter


    23. "I shouldn't mind learning why—why the sun do shine on the just and the unjust alike," she answered, with a slight quaver in her voice


    24. ” Butterwell’s voice had turned into a high, thin quaver


    25. It was a pity that I should have had to quaver out again the reasons for my not having, in my delusion, so much as questioned that the little girl saw our visitant even as I actually saw Mrs


    26. It made me, the sound of the words, in which it seemed to me that I caught for the very first time a small faint quaver of consenting consciousness—it made me drop on my knees beside the bed and


    27. The sign on the wall seemed to quaver under a film of sliding warm water


    28. On the rocks off Hopkins Marine Station the sea lions barked with a houndish quaver


    29. “Friends?” she filled in without a quaver


    1. Her voice quavered with worry and fear for the


    2. The ship moved with a grating noise, the wail quavered with the heaves of the rope


    3. " His moustache quavered


    4. An old woman in the next bed spoke to her in a gravely voice that quavered with age


    5. “Joseph - Joe are you in there?” her voice quavered


    6. Her voice quavered in shock and vibrated with disbelief:


    7. The base was relatively quiet except for the tireless diesels that seldom quavered from a steady one thousand RPM’s


    8. It quavered with fear as he continued, “We’ve got to push some of it over the side, but it burns wherever it touches my skin!”


    9. It quavered with fear as he continued, “We've got to push some of it over


    10. sound that wasn’t thunder, and the ship quavered, jarring to

    11. "Should I shoot, Jack?" he quavered


    12. "What's in it?" they quavered


    13. "Look there," she quavered, pointing


    14. ’ Ariel’s voice quavered, but carried clearly to the crowd on the other


    15. “You won’t help me?” Ceri’s voice quavered on the last two words


    16. The old enchanter’s voice shook with age as he quavered out his words


    17. Precepts, felt Lord Conderley, when delivered in a voice that quavered, wouldn't be very impressive, while as for example, how could a man be anything except virtuous and a conscientious doer of his duty, when age had completely freed him from temptation to be or do anything else?


    18. “Now you done it,” his voice quavered


    19. Herb’s voice quavered slightly


    20. ” Her voice quavered as she tried to regain her self control

    21. “We all know this is not the first time our Captain has killed innocents!” His voice quavered on the last word but his falter was brief as he grimly resumed his speech


    22. ” O'Reilly's voice quavered


    23. “What?” She quavered out, as she turned around to look at me oddly


    24. “Hey, it’s going to be okay,” Cami said to Jonquil, though her voice quavered, belying the way her heart raced and her hands sweated


    25. Deville voice quavered as he spoke


    26. "It is not certain," he quavered, "whether it is allowable to issue a challenge by proxy-"


    27. Oh, what will those other mothers think of me now?” Jane’s voice quavered


    28. " Her voice quavered with apprehension, and he appeared to me to be equally moved, though he was making strong efforts to conceal his agitation


    29. "Professor Challenger," said he, in a solemn voice, which quavered with emotion, "I owe you an apology


    30. This was one time when she knew she couldn’t wiggle out of her punishment “Not—not bad news?” quavered Pittypat

    31. Her voice quavered as she said that she remembered taking a cab to her office this morning but she woke up behind a Dumpster in an alley a block from her house


    32. Her voice was tiny, and it quavered when she spoke


    33. “Never mind it,” quavered the man


    1. It looked to be white on the inside, but he shook his head and gave it back to Amonas with a hesitant look on his face and a quavering quality in his voice:


    2. It answered in a quavering voice, not unlike a frightened child:


    3. “I love you Andy, I really do, but I can’t understand what the hell it is you’ve turned into,” said Ethan with a quavering voice


    4. His voice was quavering:


    5. The respect he commanded was obvious; his quavering voice quieted the mob


    6. Even though the ground was still quavering and bucking,


    7. “What’s done is done” came the faint, quavering voice of Gad, as he slowly rose from the safety he had sought at the beginning of the swift action


    8. “I had a son with that name,” a quavering elderly voice offered, from another part of what was slowly being revealed as a main room of a residence


    9. “Oh?” asked the quavering voice from out of a corner of the room that father and son had retreated to, “My Gad has been before Pharaoh?”


    10. “If we leave here, what shall become of us?” the quavering voice of old age inquired

    11. Into the silence that followed, a timid, quavering sound of the trump once more, accompanied by a high thin wail of pain of a dying city as a great conflagration engulfed all that was left of the self-contained society that had thought to go on forever


    12. “What's done is done” came the faint, quavering voice of Gad, as he slowly rose from the


    13. “I had a son with that name,” a quavering elderly voice offered, from another part of what was


    14. “Oh?” asked the quavering voice from out of a corner of the room that father and son had


    15. Into the silence that followed, a timid, quavering sound of the trump once more, accompanied


    16. quavering soprano by Miss Twitchel in rather bad French


    17. He doesn’t cry, but his words are quavering


    18. man, quavering and hoarse


    19. “Mel?” she called in a quavering voice


    20. “What was that?” She asked with a quavering voice

    21. “Jeff?” she called, voice quavering


    22. Joe Buck answered her in a quavering voice


    23. “Who are you?” she asked, her voice quavering as she forced herself to think and speak


    24. He looked out upon his audience, felt the fear of appearing before them quavering within his already tortured belly


    25. into her quavering hand


    26. Jeff’s rendition of ‘Summertime’ brought a melancholic mood to the audience as the quavering sounds of the harmonica flowed gracefully into the red sun sky


    27. " She said in a low, quavering voice


    28. Her quavering voice had alerted David that something was wrong, but Connie assured him it was no big deal, she would tell him once she got home, which wouldn’t be that night because she’d heard on the radio that roads were impassable


    29. The old man in red spoke, his voice quavering with age


    30. Jeeter’s knees folded under his quavering weight but Durstan caught him from behind and stood him up on wobbly legs

    31. ” His quavering, gravely voice was tinged with an air of confession


    32. Morrison could not for all that dissemble the disappointment and sternness of her heart, and the old lady glanced up at her as she came in with a kind of quavering fearfulness, like that of a little child who is afraid it may be going to be whipped, or of a conscientious dog who has lapsed unaccountably from rectitude


    33. Her heart will stop quavering in a bid for escape


    34. It's alright," she murmurs, her voice quavering in a way that tells him that it is not going to be alright at all


    35. voice quavering at the memory of walking into his study


    36. she demanded in a quavering voice ‘—is this?’ She lifted


    37. “No, you kill,” the alien said in a quavering voice


    38. quavering voice that always came out of her mouth when


    39. 'At once!' she added, in a quavering shriek


    40. ' Delivered in a quavering bleat, his defiance lost some of its effect

    41. The noose went tight, cutting off the quavering breath he'd been in the middle of taking


    42. At this moment there shook out into the air a wavering, quavering, doleful lamentation which seemed to lack strength to unfold itself, and yet flagged on; at the sound of which doors in back streets burst sullenly open; workmen stumped forth


    43. His voice, feeble at first and quavering, grew sharp; it resounded in the night like the indistinct moan of a vague distress; and through the ringing of the bells, the murmur of the trees, and the rumbling of the empty vehicle, it had a far-off sound that disturbed Emma


    44. Rincewind took a deep breath "I suppose I should warn you," he said, his voice hardly quavering at all, "that this is a magic sword


    45. Quavering the chords strayed from the air, found it again, lost chord, and lost


    46. “Who…who are you?” Abernathy said in a quavering voice as he backed away


    47. He would be singing morose ballads of splendid defeat in a quavering keen


    48. Whenever there was a pause in the song she filled it with gasping broken sobs and then took up the lyric again in a quavering soprano


    49. “And Whitewalls?” asked Butterwell, with quavering voice


    50. I cannot read the fiery letters,' said Frodo in a quavering voice








    1. to do is sit on the couch and eat Quavers all afternoon


    2. The quavers were worse now than they’d been the last time he’d noticed them


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    Synonyms for "quaver"

    eighth note quaver trill warble waver quiver shutter shiver shake vibrate flutter

    "quaver" definitions

    a tremulous sound


    a musical note having the time value of an eighth of a whole note


    give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency


    sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below