quiver
verb (used with or without object)
to shake with a slight but rapid motion; vibrate tremulously; tremble.
quivery
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a word derived from
quiver.
Example Sentences
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There are also four video screens, whether horizontal or vertical, that offer quivery views of such aerial phenomena as birds on a wire or a white streak across a blue sky.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2023
Ms. Rainer’s first Academy Award was pretty much for a quivery, gulpy, sniffly — and, yes, sob-inducing — three-minute scene in “The Great Ziegfeld.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 1, 2015
Her voice has this quivery power that reminds me of Linda Perhacs or Buffy Sainte-Marie, but vocally she’s more of a Roy Orbison-style crooner than a folkie.
From Slate ● Dec. 26, 2012
The shape, the delicacy, and the quivery sensitivity of these slender tails makes the flower look like feathers or the legs of a ballerina or two little flags.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 15, 1995
Then he tried to talk, another mistake, because his voice was all quivery and weak.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
