quaver
verb (used without object)
to shake tremulously; quiver or tremble.
quavers
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present tense formof quaver (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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The vivid pictures in “Cultivating Imperfection,” the Northern Virginia painter’s Art League show, might be pulsing with sound, light or tectonic quavers.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 24, 2020
“There are things out there,” a character quavers.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 9, 2020
His fiddle playing had the deliberately rough-hewed sound of rural tradition; his tone could be sweet or scratchy, his phrases songful and melancholy or propulsive and gnarled with ornamental turns and quavers.
From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2016
In one particularly musical moment, he expresses planetary motions in musical notation — the orbits of Mercury, Venus and their neighbours spun out into crotchets and quavers.
From Nature ● Mar. 17, 2015
The light filtering in from above shifts again, and the figure quavers as though she were watching through a heat haze, though Mr. A. H— remains comparatively crisp and clear.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
