How to Use tremble in a Sentence

tremble

1 of 2 verb
  • The house trembled as the big truck drove by.
  • I opened the letter with trembling hands.
  • His arms and legs began to tremble.
  • My voice trembled as I began to speak.
  • His body was locked tight and trembling.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Hans was the one who should have been trembling in his seat.
    — Ben Mezrich, Vanity Fair, 6 Apr. 2026
  • His eyes were misted and his palms were trembling.
    — Literary Hub, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Others tremble in their seats or bury their heads in their hands.
    — Karen De Sa, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2018
  • My room’s windows shook and the walls trembled.
    — Helena Carpio, Time, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Betty trembles and looks down at her hands, one of which holds a big rock.
    — Jessica MacLeish, Teen Vogue, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Some show child survivors trembling, the shock on tiny faces grimed with blood and ash.
    — Hazem Balousha, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
  • My hands are a little moist and my legs are trembling a little bit.
    — Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 14 Jan. 2026
  • By the time Legacy reached the net, her whole body was trembling.
    — Melody Chiu, PEOPLE.com, 26 July 2019
  • The slender necklace was trembling on her smooth brown throat.
    — Colin Barrett, Harper's magazine, 5 July 2019
  • The white words tremble against a black ground; colors flicker around their edges.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2018
  • Yasser, my cousin, was clutched in my arms, trembling with emotion.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2025
  • His eyes got wide and his hands began to tremble and the hot coffee went all over the floor.
    — New York Times, 15 June 2021
  • Charania has said his hands trembled that night.
    — Brad Townsend, Dallas Morning News, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Her voice still trembles at the memory.
    — Danielle Bacher, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
  • One of the most Latino big cities in the country trembled in fear.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026
  • Lost in the trembling of my own body, trembling like Bunny’s body.
    — Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Our first sight is a naked Pius receiving a sponge bath from a trembling young nun.
    — Mike Hale, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2020
  • The lesson isn’t that investors tremble when Fed chairs talk about stocks.
    — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Sometimes his voice was resigned and trembled with sadness and fear.
    — Christopher Ketcham, Harper's Magazine, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Hands trembling, Ashanty tried to untie the rope but couldn't.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 14 Feb. 2020
  • Hands trembling, Ashanty tried to untie the rope but couldn’t.
    — Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2020
  • When the ground began to tremble, neighbors ran through the streets to rouse those still sleeping.
    — Heba Farouk Mahfouz, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The flan trembled on its plate, oozing a sugary puddle.
    — Catherine Lacey, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Hind’s voice, trembling yet unyielding, speaks to every one of us.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2025
  • And the rabbit in the moonlight pool was trembling, trembling.
    — Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025

tremble

2 of 2 noun
  • His booming voice put to rest rumors that age had brought a tremble to it.
    — Mujib Mashal Jim Huylebroek, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • And that’s the kind of name that should make some of his enemies tremble.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Cut the square in half and the custard inside doesn’t so much gush as tremble.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2023
  • Feel a tremble in your stomach, in your chest, in your fingertips.
    — Shelly Oria, Longreads, 2 July 2018
  • Other stations were too far away to listen in, so the tiny tremble had been presumed to be noise.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 June 2023
  • Be a good child, do what they’re told, be the best child, a tremble in their hands, say nothing, tensed for the knock on the door.
    — Literary Hub, 17 June 2026
  • Some dogs will panic, pace, drool, and tremble upon hearing the first crack of thunder or pop from a firework.
    — Cathy M. Rosenthal, ExpressNews.com, 26 June 2020
  • And for those who blench and tremble at the thought of audience participation, take a breath.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2022
  • But at the time of her death, the reporter who had once made executives tremble had not published a scoop in nearly a decade.
    — Jacob Bernstein, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2023
  • Her phrases swell, tremble and spill over into melismas, and her verses crest with two different peaks.
    — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Turner has had two seizures since late January, and his left hand trembles, Marshall said.
    — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Her voice is soft but substantial, and contains an airy tremble that sometimes resembles birdsong.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2020
  • But there’s a tinge of uncertainty — a tremble of possible tension.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 26 Dec. 2021
  • Thus there may not be a simple way to decipher whether an early warning sign is an omen of a major, more destructive quake or a tiny tremble.
    — Everyday Einstein Sabrina Stierwalt, Scientific American, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Over time, many small infatuations rippled the surface of her mind, like the spring breeze that makes new leaves tremble without changing their life’s course.
    — Tove Ditlevsen, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Instead, its trembles are thought to come from the slow cooling of the planet over time, which causes the orb to contract and develop fractures on its surface.
    — National Geographic, 23 Apr. 2019
  • In the sky an airplane is on its side, turning east with its belly up, its engines whining, a rumble in its wake that is felt in the gut, an additional tremble in the limbs.
    — Keith Ridgway, The Atlantic, 18 Apr. 2022
  • The leaves tremble, shedding the drops, which fall and join their countless comrades already percolating through the soil, toward the water table and thence to the mighty ocean.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2020
  • One member of the organization fought off tears while discussing the fear -- and accompanying tremble -- that runs through when being pulled over.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 9 June 2020
  • Why not spend your evenings sitting side by side at the dining-room table with your spouse, trying to determine whether your downstairs neighbors’ ceiling fan is making the floor tremble?
    — Cora Frazier, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Gorski was a star in baseball and soccer in high school at Hamilton Southeastern, a kid with the kind of raw power that makes pitchers tremble and scouts drool.
    — Wilson Moore, The Indianapolis Star, 28 June 2022
  • For those attuned to perceive it, the great weight of this knowledge comes to rest within a wordless contemplative space, making the heart tremble as readily as any sermon or hymn.
    — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 12 July 2022
  • As Etna fell silent, the scientists were surprised to see a series of very small trembles that seem to originate from the movement of fluids and gas underground.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 June 2023
  • Sister Mary, a wily, possibly addled nun/mother figure played with fretful tremble by Diane Keaton.
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 13 Jan. 2017
  • Analyses are getting better, and data are accruing on seismometers around the world that are constantly listening for our planet’s every tremble.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, National Geographic, 19 Aug. 2019
  • The faint signal, which came on April 6, is the first tremble that scientists believe comes from the Martian interior, rather than from surface forces, such as wind.
    — National Geographic, 23 Apr. 2019
  • Alexis Taylor croons in a high, understanding tremble, and Joe Goddard offers plummy, sad ballast.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 25 June 2019
  • When electricity affords Gazans access to social media, grief and despair tremble alongside grim determination.
    — Washington Post, 18 May 2021
  • In 2008, Grosz felt the tremble of the Great Recession and just five years later, the aftershock of the Detroit bankruptcy.
    — Detroit Free Press, 5 Mar. 2024
  • The researchers have installed a complex network of sensors that monitor Mayon’s every tremble and burp and are using their vast amounts of knowledge garnered from past events to interpret the volcano’s every shiver.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 19 Jan. 2018

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