quiver
verb (used with or without object)
to shake with a slight but rapid motion; vibrate tremulously; tremble.
were quivering
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past progressiveof quiver.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Network Rail seemed to pride itself on displaying platform information at the last possible moment, so we were quivering like greyhounds as we waited to run to the train.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 27, 2017
“Shortly girls were quivering and fainting wherever he turned up to sing Long Tall Sally, I Got a Woman, and Blue Suede Shoes,” the magazine explained.
From Time ● Jan. 8, 2016
Mr. Starr has a skinny, burred voice that sounds as if he were quivering, and when the guitarist Paul Jackson chimes in with high harmony vocals, as on “Six Ways to Sunday,” it’s bracing.
From New York Times ● Aug. 13, 2012
Its views were stated with unnerving energy and conviction; the prose was tight; the suburban settings had the authentic odor of nylon pile, and the characters were quivering chunks torn from the author's own life.
From Time Magazine Archive
She looked stunning, her hair back, her smile wide, except I could see her lips were quivering.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
