quiver
verb (used with or without object)
to shake with a slight but rapid motion; vibrate tremulously; tremble.
have quivered
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present perfectof quiver.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Every nerve, which despair can call into action, is excited in one giant effort, and a scream of anguish seems just to have quivered on those marble lips.
From Views a-foot by Bayard Taylor
My voice may have quivered just a little.
From A Man in the Open by Roger Pocock
She told Belle long afterward, she knew her voice must have quivered.
From Laramie Holds the Range by Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman
His hands, perhaps, should have quivered with tension.
From Space Tug by Murray Leinster
Thus Simon Peter may have contracted his brows, thus his lips may have quivered that night!
From Quisisana, or Rest at Last by Friedrich Spielhagen
