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
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
And it is at such formidable arguments as this that some of us have been trembling, fearing lest the very foundations must give way under the attack!
From Old Groans and New Songs Being Meditations on the Book of Ecclesiastes by Frederick Charles Jennings
Alberich and Mime, who have been trembling with fear as long as the conflict raged, now timidly venture out of their respective hiding places.
From Stories of the Wagner Opera by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber
