Example Sentences

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“I have two children who come home at 4, and I don’t want them to get hurt,” one woman tremulously explains in her message.

From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2019

“This cat is dangerous,” a woman said, her voice carrying tremulously over the saloon door.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 5, 2017

Introduced in a cut where someone tremulously asks the wicked spirit why are you doing this?

From Seattle Times • Jun. 9, 2016

In one of Hollywood's more famous stories, Rainer wrote her own scene for "The Great Ziegfeld" — the famous telephone scene where she tremulously congratulates her ex-husband, whom she still loves, on his new marriage.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2014

Everything, I thought tremulously, everything would be okay if only I could have a few moments of quiet and if I lay very, very still.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt