[
UK
/kwˈeɪvəɹɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈkweɪvɝɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈkweɪvɝɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
(of the voice) quivering as from weakness or fear
the old lady's quavering voice
spoke timidly in a tremulous voice
How To Use quavering In A Sentence
- The lights dimmed and a man began a long, quavering chant. Times, Sunday Times
- It might have just been the connection, but he thought he heard her voice quavering.
- For, as all have seen, she was naturally of a very timorsome and quavering disposition. The Dew of Their Youth
- Such a charivari as ensued, for just as my tugs at the alarm-bell began to take effect, the clock struck twelve, and the waits set up outside my window in quavering tones, with their teeth chattering from the cold, an old-fashioned lilt. A Christmas Cake in Four Quarters
- the man began quaveringly to question the soldier
- 'It's not true,' she said, in a quavering voice.
- the old lady's quavering voice
- My brother's voice was quavering on the other end of the line.
- To me, it feels quite tentative with quavering voice asking big questions needing even bigger answers. The Sun
- And a quavering wail of terror rose up from the throats of the thousands of pigmies. "Once in a Blue Moon" by Harl Vincent, part 4