(v. i.) Especially, to shake the voice; to utter or form sound with rapid or tremulous vibrations, as in singing; also, to trill on a musical instrument
(v. t.) To utter with quavers.
(n.) A shake, or rapid and tremulous vibration, of the voice, or of an instrument of music.
(n.) An eighth note. See Eighth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Another time I kissed this boy wearing flip-flops, and she said his toenails looked like quavers.
(2) Libya is part of freedom's future: it must not be buried by a quavering past.
(3) The familiar biblical words, the quavering congregation working its way through Victorian hymns, the priest, who often has never met the deceased: all these deaden and distance.
(4) He spoke in a soft, quavering voice while making his apology and describing what he said was his fragile state.
(5) My husband and I can’t read or write, and we want our children to go to school.” Before we leave, her husband shows us what the Taliban objected to so violently: a long-necked lute, on which he plays a quavering tune.
(6) Certain fans couldn't even look you in the face – you'd have to go over and say, 'Hi, I'm Jason', and they'd go – a quavering voice – 'Oh my God, I know!'"
(7) His songs were the soundtrack to my life: a quavering New York voice with little range singing songs of alienation and despair, with flashes of impossible hope and of those tiny, perfect days and nights we want to last for ever, important because they are so finite and so few; songs filled with people, some named, some anonymous, who strut and stagger and flit and shimmy and hitch-hike into the limelight and out again.
(8) This wine probably cheered someone up when Mozart died”, he quavered at one point, and it didn’t even sound a tenth as stupid as it looks written down.
(9) His face looks as confident as Jadav’s – but the quaver in his voice might just have betrayed some deeply harboured doubts.
(10) And the parliamentary Labour party led Europe’s social democrats into quavering irrelevance.
(11) It’s easy to say: ‘I’m out here working and he’s just sitting there spending his giro on booze.’ But there isn’t a show about Amazon or these tax-dodging corporations that are fleecing the country much more than a guy who’s pretending to have a sore back so he can eat Quavers and watch Storage Wars all day.” A vote for independence, he says, would have been a step away from all that.
(12) 8.03pm BST The plucky strings are basically Mel and Sue made into quavers and crotchets.
(13) On Etsy you can buy everything from appliqué and pendants to lanterns made of Quavers.
(14) But the timing of her pleas for food, her choice of words, the choice of ham sandwiches and a packet of Quavers – they were little nuggets of comedy gold, genius even.
(15) Subjects (Ss) either tapped with their two index fingers in synchrony (quavers against quavers; "2 against 2") or they tapped quavers against triplets ("2 against 3").
(16) Parliament suspended its normal sessions today to hear condolence speeches by legislators, many of them speaking in voices that quavered with emotion.
(17) A modification of Isshiki's technique has been applied in ten patients exhibiting the breathiness and quavering voice typical of an "elderly" larynx, eight of whom have been followed long enough to be evaluated, and in two younger patients with similarly unexplained vocal fold flaccidity.
(18) Either the right or the left finger started tapping the quavers (onset time t1), after about 4 s the other finger joined in (t2) either with quavers as well (easy rhythm) or with triplets (difficult rhythm).
(19) Djokovic, though, is nothing if not resilient and the Serb rallied to go 4-2 ahead, pulling himself up to his full champion's height, and drawing the first anxious, quavering clamour around Centre Court's steeply banked gunmetal green bowl.
Trembling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tremble
(a.) Shaking; tottering; quivering.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facial twitch was followed by the generalized convulsion, further progressing to trembling of the limbs and then kicking of the hindlimb (full seizure) after 55 days of age.
(2) "To be honest, I dream of the Premier League," replied the Lille forward, setting hearts a-trembling across England.
(3) One chronically discomposed self-structure, defining itself as polluted and helpless, trembles with the appalling imagery of historical and imminent community disasters.
(4) Simulated gait abnormalities involve weakness of 1 or both legs or ataxia and trembling.
(5) Sweating, trembling, inability to concentrate, weakness, hunger and blurred vision were the most frequently reported symptoms.
(6) Chu, with trembling lips, said that “a 70-year-old like me is unable to lead all the Occupy protestors home unharmed and protect young people from being hit”.
(7) Five to 10 min after the drug administration, the camels at both dosages showed lacrimation, salivation, trembling, restlessness, frequent urination and defecation, followed by diarrhea.
(8) Therefore, the coat-color remained cream in ee (cream) hamsters showing only trembling.
(9) He was eventually thrown out by a lacklustre landlord who finally listened to my trembling 3am calls for action.
(10) Panic-related chest pain, dyspnea, trembling, and fear were important factors in the development, pervasiveness, and severity of situational fears and anticipatory anxiety.
(11) The force of the blast made the ground tremble in the Chinese border city of Yanji, 130 miles away.
(12) The basic features included a brief, involuntary, coarse, irregular, wavering movement or tremble involving arm-hand alone, or arm-hand and leg together.
(13) These movements, which were often abnormal, included trembling and asynchronism.
(14) Though the route map that Wenger had provided was clear enough, his men held it with trembling hands.
(15) When he speaks, his voice trembles: "If Nato hadn't intervened, none of us would be here," he cries.
(16) The shiverer mutation consists of a deletion of the 3' end of the myelin basic protein gene which completely prevents production of mature mRNA and protein, and results in severe dysmyelination and a trembling behavior.
(17) His agonising efforts to appease his dying father and establish a relationship with his sister, Glory, are so finely grained, so trembling with a sense of life unlived, and without the neat, redemptive ending of the previous novel, that it is a much stronger and more radical piece.
(18) On the current track, maybe life does become unbearable in the future, when the last remaining cubic centimetre of public space – a trembling pocket of air perhaps, in a cellar at the Emirates British Library – is finally acquired by a friend of King Charles III.
(19) The following clinical signs such as pronounced muscle fasciculation, trembling, grinding teeth, ataxia, lateral recumbency, bloating, regurgitation, hyperesthesia, mydriasis and convulsions were observed.
(20) Similarly, the prominent 4- and 8-Hz peaks, found in the smoothed EMG power spectra from trembling muscles, were eliminated if the limb was effectively prevented from trembling.