tremble
verb (used without object)
to shake involuntarily with quick, short movements, as from fear, excitement, weakness, or cold; quake; quiver.
have been trembling
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present perfect progressiveof tremble.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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Pistorius is reported to have been trembling and sobbing as Nair summarized the defense’s case.
From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2013
So now, three hundred feet in the night and rising higher, while he should have been trembling, he was not.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
They must have been trembling with fear in their Ministries—all those men with fiendish hearts.
From Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
It was out of place in one who should have been trembling at the prospect of doom.
From Uneasy Money by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
For weeks I have been trembling at the thought of it, and now I can stand it no longer.
From 'Clear the Track' A Story of To-day by Elisabeth Buerstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)
