[
UK
/tɹˈɛmblɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈtɹɛmbəɫɪŋ, ˈtɹɛmbɫɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈtɹɛmbəɫɪŋ, ˈtɹɛmbɫɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
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a shaky motion
the shaking of his fingers as he lit his pipe
ADJECTIVE
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vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze
seemed shaky on her feet
trembling hands
the quaking child asked for more
quivering leaves of a poplar tree
sparkling light from the shivering crystals of the chandelier
a quaking bog
with shaking knees
How To Use trembling In A Sentence
- It felt like chewing string dipped in weed killer, but within a couple of minutes the trembling in his limbs gave way to a kind of enervated thrumming and the pounding in his head subsided to a manageable level. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
- I sat in the buggy, holding the reins over the trembling, wild-eyed bay, while William descended and, with great dignity, tied up the disabled swingletree. A Circuit Rider's Wife
- See now, rounding the headland, a forlorn hopeless bird, trembling black wings fingering the blowy air, dainty and ghostly, careless of the scattering salt.
- I had, somehow, got both lords and deans associated in my mind with infinite swillings of port wine, and bacchanalian orgies, and sat down at first, in much fear and trembling, lest I should be compelled to join, under penalties of salt-and-water; but Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography
- See now, rounding the headland, a forlorn hopeless bird, trembling black wings fingering the blowy air, dainty and ghostly, careless of the scattering salt.
- I was shocked by her appearance, her weak condition and the fact that the trolley was vibrating with her trembling.
- From where he sat he could see the trembling lights of the village jewelling the rim of the bay like a circlet of stars. Flood Tide
- She sat down to conceal the fact that she was trembling.
- She was in lather-sweat of fear, and stood trembling pitiably. Jack London's Short Story - Planchette
- The kiln is stoked initially with wood until the brick kiln is trembling from the heat and the flames. Times, Sunday Times