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Example sentences for "trembling"

Lexicographically close words:
tremblement; tremblements; trembler; trembles; trembleth; tremblingly; tremblings; trembly; tremendious; tremendous
  1. Trembling for what their terror was, Surprised by instant doom, With lightning in the looking glass, Thunder that rocks the room.

  2. I'm just trembling in every limb from the excitement.

  3. With trembling haste he seeks to join His daughter Gallia, lovely rover!

  4. The trembling Clown dissuades in vain And finds too late, there’s no retreating, Whatever Harlequin may gain, The Clown is sure to have a beating.

  5. He was having a hard time to keep back the tears and bit his trembling lip mercilessly.

  6. As he stood there hesitant, shaken, Morse buried his head deeper in his arms, moaned convulsively, twisting and trembling after a series of sobs that seemed to tear themselves from him.

  7. He waited for the beetle to be still, trembling with excitement and eagerness.

  8. And he drew Saya toward him, trembling slightly, and put his arm about her waist before all the tribe, and the tribesmen muttered in acquiescent whispers that what Burl said was true, as they had already known.

  9. Now, however, he was leading half a dozen trembling men toward the inverted dome in which the spider dozed.

  10. And so through the long night they waited in trembling silence.

  11. High the resolves that fill the brain With transports trembling upon pain, When the veil of time is rent in twain, That hides the glory past!

  12. Trembling I heard of dizzy shrouds, Where up among the raving clouds The sailor-boy must go; Thunder and lightning o'er his head!

  13. Thy heart was like an untouch'd lyre, Silent as death--Let the trembling wire The hand that knows its spirit feel; And list!

  14. So saying he began walking to and fro before the gate, with drawn sword, like a sentinel, and Heimbert, trembling with joy, glided within the gloomy and aromatic shrubberies.

  15. I dragged myself trembling to the window of the cottage and looked out.

  16. Exhaustion and cold told fearfully upon them; the stoutest were seized with trembling fits and short breath, and Dr.

  17. A violent storm arose, the waves ran high, and their clumsy boat, trembling under the strain, was in danger of sinking at any moment.

  18. Bird's first impulse was to scream, but, checking it, she shrank trembling behind a tall rocking-chair and watched.

  19. Lammy's trembling fingers fumbled with the earth and his head swam.

  20. As I helped him to his feet, I could feel that his arm was trembling violently.

  21. A crowd of men, alarmed by the trembling of the vessel as her way was checked, poured out from the cabins.

  22. The Provencal was sitting on a chest, his head in his hands, trembling with fear.

  23. There was more trembling of thee than of the sea itself, thou white-gilled Frenchman.

  24. Say, El Toro, you thought the authorities below had sent for you when you felt that trembling of the sea.

  25. There was no mistaking the human voice this time--and Priscilla got up from where she sat, though trembling so much that she had to lean one hand on the table to steady herself.

  26. He felt her heart beating wildly and her whole body trembling under his gust of passion.

  27. She stirred slightly, as though some invisible creature had touched her, and held up one little trembling hand.

  28. She was trembling violently, and her face seemed changed from the round and mobile softness of youth to the worn pallor and thinness of age.

  29. Nor I," said Innocent, in a trembling voice, suggestive of tears.

  30. Innocent placed a chair close to the table so that she could lean her arm on that friendly board and steady her trembling little frame.

  31. She herself, poor child, moved to the very soul by the interview she had just gone through, was trembling with extreme nervousness, and could hardly conceal her agitation.

  32. She saw her pretty little velvet hat on the settee where she had left it, and in a trembling hurry she put it on--then paused.

  33. He turned to look for her, while Innocent, trembling violently, wondered desperately whether it would be possible for her to run away!

  34. She did not reply; but he, holding her figure closer to him, felt it trembling with a nervous expectation.

  35. He caught the white and trembling hands that were thrust out to him eagerly.

  36. The monks departing, one by one, The chapel gates in silence close, When from the altar steps of stone The trembling lady feebly goes; While morning sheds a ruby light, The painted windows glowing bright.

  37. They told the landlord and his people, trembling as they spoke, that in the road they had encountered a great figure of a man all over blood, whose head was like a flame of fire, and to increase the wonder, placed beneath his shoulder.

  38. The door opened, some one came out of the cottage and called to me; but I, cold and trembling with fear like a criminal, ran away home.

  39. In a moment his head was upon my knees, my trembling hands were pressed again and again to his lips, and I felt hot drops falling upon them.

  40. And when the whole truth had been declared, he not only kissed and embraced the pair who knelt before him, but of his goodness forgave the nurse, who in her turn came trembling to his feet.

  41. At first he awaited the summons with a trembling heart.

  42. One entry, almost the last, and traced with a trembling hand, he read over and over, till his eyes grew too dim to see the words.

  43. Carlos almost moaned, the paper falling from his trembling hand.

  44. At last Juan's trembling hands let go the framework of the window to which they had been clinging; and, the intense strain over, he fell back exhausted.

  45. He said afterwards to the trembling children of one of the victims, whose desolated home he dared to visit, "For myself, horror took hold of me.

  46. God bless you for those words, senora," answered Carlos with a trembling lip.

  47. My friend, wait; I am saying my prayers," said the poor mother in a trembling voice.

  48. She walked back trembling in all her limbs; and when she reached the gloomy street, lately so joyous to her, she felt its sadness, she breathed the melancholy which time and events had printed there.

  49. He tottered, and trembling was compelled to sit down on the stairs.

  50. Shortly after dawn, moving stilly as the break of day, trembling with fear, she came slipping to the river for a drink.

  51. He knew that his voice was trembling with eagerness and hoarse with fear.

  52. The trembling slid from him, and his muscles hardened.

  53. From there she glided through the bushes and underbrush, trembling and quaking, yet pushing stoutly onward, straining her ears for some note of the brilliant stranger's.

  54. He gathered Maria in his arms, pressed her head against his breast with a trembling old hand, while the face he turned to the morning was beautiful.

  55. He held up his shaking hands, and watched them wonderingly, and then cupped one over each trembling knee to steady himself.

  56. Then he saw his own service revolver in her trembling hand.

  57. Norris noticed that his hands were trembling as he shuffled through the pages.


  58. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trembling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    agitated; ague; aspen; bashful; chorea; convulsion; cowardly; diffident; disquiet; doddering; fearful; fearsome; fidgets; fidgety; flutter; fluttery; inquietude; jactitation; jumpy; nervous; palpitation; palsied; palsy; panting; poised; quaking; quaver; quavering; quiver; quivering; restlessness; scary; shake; shakes; shaking; shaky; shiver; shivering; shivery; shrinking; shudder; shuddering; shy; skittish; spasm; thrill; throb; throbbing; timid; timorous; tremble; trembling; tremor; tremulous; trepidation; twitchy; twitter; unrest; vibrating; vibration; wobbly


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    trembling from; trembling hand; trembling voice