tremble
verb (used without object)
to shake involuntarily with quick, short movements, as from fear, excitement, weakness, or cold; quake; quiver.
tremblingly
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a word derived from
tremble.
Example Sentences
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The temptation to amuse the audience led him to betray his duty to appraise the work of aspiring artists who tremblingly dared present themselves before His Nasty Majesty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
I seized the bell-rope; dropped it, ashamed; seized it again; dropped it once more; clutched it tremblingly once again, and pulled it so feebly that I could hardly hear the stroke myself.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
“The world that we tremblingly stepped out into in that decade was a bitter, gray one. But San Francisco was a special place,” he wrote in “Scratching the Beat Surface,” a 1982 essay collection.
From Washington Post ● May 7, 2020
Oklahoma made it, and, two rows behind me, a man in a tuxedo sobbed with a sort of tremblingly honest gratitude and joy.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 10, 2018
The light that long ago had struck me into syncope, recalled in this vision, seemed glidingly to mount the wall, and tremblingly to pause in the centre of the obscured ceiling.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
