atremble
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of atremble
Example Sentences
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It had a crowd of 76,549 that set the place atremble.
From Washington Post • Oct. 30, 2021
Once when old Otto von Bismarck's demands had set much of Europe atremble, he was asked if he wanted war.
From Time Magazine Archive
Newspapers across Germany were predictably atremble over Grass's revelation.
From Time Magazine Archive
The fans are already atremble with anticipation, scalpers are busy preparing hefty markups, to $225 or more a ticket, and the teams are mulling over old grudges.
From Time Magazine Archive
Presently I sank on the heaped pelts all atremble.
From Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
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