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Example sentences for "tremors"

Lexicographically close words:
tremenjous; tremenjus; tremens; tremolo; tremor; tremour; trempe; tremulous; tremulously; tremulousness
  1. In spite of all this the symptoms became worse and the patient sank into a condition of profound collapse, the pulse dropping to 24 per minute and the tremors ceased.

  2. He was the youngest of the trio, not much more than a child, in fact, and even the slum child, precocious in many kinds of knowledge, does not peep without tremors behind the veil of the mystery of mysteries.

  3. The cool night air flowed in and heightened Emily's tremors so that the elder lady took pity on her.

  4. I awoke, not as I had first awakened from insensibility, with tremors and bewilderment, but easily, with a delicious sense of warmth and rest and renewing vigour in my limbs.

  5. Sharp tremors ran through his body, and he made no reply nor appeared to hear me, though I called his name several times.

  6. He felt tremors but they were not tremors of fear.

  7. Henry and Paul looked curiously at the black mouth and they felt some tremors at the knowledge that they were to go in there, and to remain inside the earth for a long time, shut from the light of day.

  8. For that period the pleasures of fancy overcame the tremors of the real.

  9. So that it was not weakness or modest tremors or prostration would betray her.

  10. She was always in tremors of terror lest her husband might surprise them, although she well knew that the industrious engineer was in his factory a great distance away.

  11. The man had interrupted his monologue, heard only by the black masses of vegetation, the blue shadows perforated by the reddish tremors of the street lights, the summer night with its cupola of warm breezes and twinkling stars.

  12. The danger seems to have passed, though recent tremors in South Korea, Brazil and Taiwan do not augur well.

  13. To maintain these seething undercurrents from erupting, to avoid the volcanic tremors that precede every revolution - behaviour was formalized and ritualised.

  14. Shaking palsy, paralysis agitans, a disease usually occurring in old people, characterized by muscular tremors and a peculiar shaking and tottering gait.

  15. It is characterized by muscular tremors and spasms, followed by more or less complete paralysis.

  16. Turn something of Thy look, And fear me with rebuke, That I May timorously Take tremors in Thy arms, And with contrived charms Allure A love unsure.

  17. But observations of these vibrations, to be of use, must take note of the myriad tremors that will escape ordinary perceptions, or the powers of such rude instruments as the above.

  18. Doubtless many smaller animals perceive tremors of the earth that pass unnoticed by men; but as to the efficacy of such signs in general, it is suggestive of Hotspur’s reply to Glendower.

  19. These instruments have taught us that the minor tremors increase in number and intensity as any unusual disturbance of Vesuvius approaches; just as the Signal Service can detect the gathering of a storm ere it actually bursts.

  20. Quite generally there are subterranean rumblings, or slight tremors preceding the more violent shock; but even these are not sure signs, as they may occur alone, or the earthquake may come unannounced.

  21. She was discharged the 15th of July, seemingly in good Health; though during that Period she had some little Tremors in her Foot, and was subject to be low and faintish, which was always relieved by cordial anodyne Medicines.

  22. Unfeignedly puzzled, and with all her nervous tremors trooping back upon her, Christina went across the landing, and turned along the passage as directed.

  23. Another instrument has been invented called the microphone, which translates this earth's movements into sound--its tremors and agitations become audible.

  24. The number of tremors required to produce red light is estimated at four hundred and seventy-four million millions a second, and for the production of violet light, six hundred and ninety-nine million millions a second.

  25. Whether it be fire or air distressed in the subterranean caverns of the earth cannot be known for there is no eruption, no explosion perceptible but by sounds and tremors which are sometimes very fearful and dreadful.

  26. She dreamed awake in her song, throwing into her words tremors of passion, the moisture rising to her eyes.

  27. In Campana Street, that venerable haunt of the bull-fighters where the gossip of the great doings of the profession circulated, he received information about his companions that gave him tremors of enthusiasm.

  28. We were in the saddle promptly at nine, and in Indian file we set out through the village street, filled with the tremors natural to those who find themselves for the first time in their lives seated on horseback.

  29. But these tremors were as nothing to what beset us almost immediately on leaving the town and striking into the narrow ravine that led up into the hills behind it.

  30. He did not feel ashamed; he had no tremors for the straightforward regard; he had no uneasy sensation that possibly even now his mother was perplexing herself on account of his action.

  31. Again, as we have already seen, the earthquake wave is preceded by a number of preliminary tremors, and is followed by a number of after tremors or earthquake echoes.

  32. Milne thinks that these sounds are caused by the preliminary tremors which precede the principal shock of the earthquake and that they reach the place first.

  33. A geologist who was at Valdez, Alaska, during the 1964 earthquake described this sequence: The first tremors were hard enough to stop a moving person, and shock waves were immediately noticeable on the surface of the ground.

  34. The location and movement of swarms of tremors indicate the movement of magma through the volcano.

  35. Many a soldier, who will be steadfastly brave in the actual shock of battle, has tremors and throbbings on its eve.

  36. Even when Raymond, as he manipulated her hair, inadvertently pulled the roots, the prickly pains seemed to tingle on down through her being in little tremors of pure ecstasy.


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