How To Use Quavering In A Sentence
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The lights dimmed and a man began a long, quavering chant.
Times, Sunday Times
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It might have just been the connection, but he thought he heard her voice quavering.
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For, as all have seen, she was naturally of a very timorsome and quavering disposition.
The Dew of Their Youth
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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
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the man began quaveringly to question the soldier
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'It's not true,' she said, in a quavering voice.
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the old lady's quavering voice
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My brother's voice was quavering on the other end of the line.
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To me, it feels quite tentative with quavering voice asking big questions needing even bigger answers.
The Sun
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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
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I slightly regret this quavering furore, since it distracts attention from the praise which it seems that I "lavished" (Mr. Erlich sounds hard to please) on Miss Himmelfarb's brilliant book.
True Minds
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The lights dimmed and a man began a long, quavering chant.
Times, Sunday Times
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Q quailing culprit quaint peculiarities qualifying service quavering voice queer tolerance quenchless despair querulous disposition [querulous = habitually complaining] questionable data questioning gaze quibbling speech quick sensibility quiescent melancholy quiet cynicism quivering excitement quixotic impulse quizzical expression quondam foe [quondam = former]
Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms, For The Embellishment Of Speech And Literature, And The Improvement Of The Vocabulary Of Those Per
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Monty spins to attention, his head raised with great offense, his voice quavering with emotion - ‘Why did you say that?’
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The gentle breeze set the flames of the lamps quavering.
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Flying on the wings of an ubiquitous electric slide guitar, a distinctive if quavering voice, and her acerbically accurate songwriting, the Ottawa songwriter has crafted what sounds suspiciously like a Canadian roots rock classic.
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And McManus' voice, quavering, stretching and choking its way around the tunes, makes sure it always sounds very human.
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His Grozny, delicate as a doily, shows the ruins of the bombed Chechen capital dissolving in quavering sepia contours like an 18th-century capriccio.
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‘I couldn't stop in time,’ he explained, voice quavering.
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The homely sound, likewise, of a rustical hornpipe is more agreeable to my ears than the curious warbling and musical quavering of lutes, theorbos, viols, rebecs, and violins.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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‘But in the photo I saw in the paper later, he was standing in the very front,’ she said, her voice quavering.
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He came out, bowed down with sorrow, to settle on a bench, his voice quavering with a barely audible Yiddish lament.
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His voice quavering, the senator added, ‘I'm also sorry if anything I said in any way cast a negative light on our fine men and women in the military.’
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At least my voice wasn't quavering with every syllable.
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To hear King - the real King - speak in that strange, quavering but powerful voice: ‘I had a dream’, you can hear and feel where the man got his traction.
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I will give you my daughter Ermengarde in marriage, I will make you my heir, I will give you half my kingdom -- "His voice rose, quavering; and it died now, for he foreread the damnation of
Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship
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To me, it feels quite tentative with quavering voice asking big questions needing even bigger answers.
The Sun
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Informed that they were a middle-aged forty, they doddered, trembling with ague and spoke their lines in quavering falsetto.
FAIRYLAND
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And he could not help but contrast it with the weak pipings and shrill quaverings of factory girls, ill-nourished and untrained, and with the raucous shriekings from gin-cracked throats of the women of the seaport towns.
Chapter 8
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He has a quavering, affected English accent, which the actor perhaps imagines to be that of a cheeky cockney.
