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Example sentences for "quavered"

Lexicographically close words:
quattrino; quattro; quattuor; quatuor; quaver; quavering; quavers; quay; quays; quayside
  1. You promised me, my boy, that you would not be cross with me," quavered the old man.

  2. But it isn't nonsense, Luke, my boy," quavered the old man.

  3. Weakly he quavered forth, 'I am old, so old that I have lost count of the years in the past.

  4. We shall be killed,' quavered Denton, with hands shaking like river reeds.

  5. When his voice quavered and broke with human weakness, and Dinah begged him to spare himself, he shook his gray head.

  6. Sacred things should not be jested with," said the old man in stern tones that yet quavered with sympathy and pity.

  7. Two shillin'," quavered the ancient one at his elbow.

  8. Daw has gone, and without leaving me any word," quavered Gilman.

  9. His voice, thin and shrill with age, quavered now with excitement.

  10. His voice quavered on the last accent, his chin sank on his breast.

  11. I was just talking of you, Jacintha," quavered Dard in conclusion.

  12. The old man's voice quavered as he squeaked out his words, and he shuffled aside, to be less in evidence in the parlor, where he had for the one time in his life been briefly the central figure.

  13. The voice quavered up and down unsteadily.

  14. The voice quavered as the scaly brown hand thrust back the proffered coin.

  15. At this impressive woe Mrs. Berry's voice quavered into sobs.

  16. But dread returned, and the words quavered as she spoke them.

  17. There was an ugly tremor in his voice, that quavered and broke in spite of his attempts to keep it calm.

  18. But, Aunt Polly, it HAS gone further," quavered Pollyanna.

  19. As she lay listening it sounded once more, nearer than before, a shout suggestive of a wild-cat's wail that quavered and rose and dwindled and rose again.

  20. I've heered thet song afore," quavered the woman, whose lips were ashen as she rose out of her obscurity.

  21. But that didn't seem to soothe him any, and he quavered out he would be better where he was.

  22. It must have been the Hamburg bark that sailed last night," quavered Scanlon.

  23. If Mrs. Weatherbee tells us that she is going to report us to Miss Rutledge, Maizie, we must beg her not to do it," quavered Marian.

  24. I ought to have come straight to you," quavered the penitent.

  25. The nun seemed a little nervous and her voice quavered oddly as she spoke.

  26. A sound as of many voices wailing in agony rose and trembled and quavered in the air.

  27. He lifted his head, and sent out a long, clear whippoorwill call, which quavered on the night much like the other calls in the black hills around him.

  28. She wants work," quavered Susan, considerably less reliant than she'd been a moment before.

  29. In the exasperated silence the invalid's voice quavered out to them.

  30. And as it quivered and quavered over the illusion of life, a woman's figure came to lean against the central arch, and look down on the singer with kindly eyes.

  31. There was a pause, during which that shuddering cough of the hungry tiger quavered through the calm flood of sunshine, in which the crowd stood silently, patiently.

  32. Yet he gave his tail feathers a slight flirt and quavered some guttural to sustain his part in the conversation, and to beg that he might be excused from holding the sword this time.

  33. Shubenacadie quavered plaintively, and all her wrath was gone.

  34. He had his feet; he had his wings; and finally he sat up of his own accord, and quavered some slight remark about the explosion.

  35. Sometimes he quavered a plaintive remark on society as he found it, and sometimes he stretched up his neck to its longest length, a sinuous white serpent, and gazed wrathfully at the paneled ceiling.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quavered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.