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    quavering example sentences

    quavering


    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








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    Synonyms for "quavering"

    quavering tremulous

    "quavering" definitions

    (of the voice) quivering as from weakness or fear