trembling
IPA: trˈɛmbʌɫɪŋ
noun
- A tremble.
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Examples of "trembling" in Sentences
- Mary was scared to death and stood in the corner trembling with fear.
- Beyond, crouching by a bush, a rabbit looked across at him in trembling hesitancy.
- Between thumb and forefinger, in trembling haste, he caught the morsel and carried it to his mouth.
- He peered into the envelope, held it to the light, but could not trust his eyes, and in trembling haste tore the envelope apart.
- "But I say, you know, I heard shots," Bertie said, in trembling eagerness, for he scented adventure, and adventure that was happily over with.
- I crawled to the lip and looked, watching the abyss take on immensity in the growing light and trembling from the fear of height that was upon me.
- The trembling is gone, the girls are back in school - she's back to squirting whipped cream in her mouth ... and I hope to hell the snow has melted.
- Five or six minutes later -- by which time, I'm not ashamed to admit, my arms screamed in pain and I was trembling from the unaccustomed exertion -- the EMTs arrived and took over.
- This effect was heightened by the delicately aquiline nose with its thin trembling nostrils, and by the general air of eagle wildness which seemed to characterize not only the face but the creature herself.
- But the eyes were bleared and weak-lidded, the lips twitching and trembling from the various excesses in which he indulged, which excesses, as I was to learn, were largely devised and pandered by Yunsan, the Buddhist priest, of whom more anon.
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