How to Use tremolo in a Sentence

tremolo

noun
  • And his sing-songy voice, with its reedy tremolo, has a tendency to crack from time to time.
    — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, 31 May 2017
  • Rustin knew from the tremolo in Selva’s voice that things were going wrong.
    — George Packer, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2025
  • His tremolo vibrato made every note into a pearly gem.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025
  • These guys came to me with all these tremolo, feedback, wah-wah, fuzz-pedal songs and just completely kicked my butt.
    — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Breath comes raggedly, turning his powerful voice into a soft, pausing tremolo.
    — Christopher Maag, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Some of these events recurred, like glissandos, playing on the bridge, and furiously bowed tremolos.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2019
  • During the summer, they can be identified by their shiny black head and bill, small red eyes, and distinctive calls — tremolo, wail, yodel, and hoot.
    — Margeaux Sippell, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2018
  • Nobody had really thought of it, there’s tremolo, delay, reverb, chorus, all these things they’re already defined.
    — Josh Chesler, SPIN, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The tremolo and intricate performance techniques of the ouds and the solo performed on the qanun made the song a pleasant and soothing one.
    — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 4 Dec. 2024
  • In the final section, tremolos and trills in all four instruments unpredictably shifted into new harmonies.
    — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Further embellishments include a two-point steel tremolo anchor, synthetic bone nut and faux-vintage tuners.
    — Ron Hart, SPIN, 22 Nov. 2023
  • For example, his signature right-hand tremolo is fully established.
    — Marc Myers, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
  • The guitar specs include 22 jumbo frets, a modern C neck, a five-way switch, three standard pickups and a tremolo system.
    — Raquelle Harris, Billboard, 21 Sep. 2022
  • But Eddy wasn’t all lower-register melodies, liberal tremolo and omnipresent whammy bar.
    — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 1 May 2024
  • Head back, his fiendish little body arched toward the lights, Mars holds the guitar straight up in front of his face and works the tremolo to make the sound of the slow-lifting gears of a Harley.
    — Dean Kuipers, SPIN, 8 Jan. 2023
  • Guitars noodle in the distance, drenched in tremolo and reverb on long, looping delays, while creatures jerk, thrust, jitter, flop, flap, wiggle, pulse, and convulse on-screen.
    — Hazlitt, 23 Nov. 2022
  • There's a lovely feline supercharger howl, plus the whine of the serpentine belt and some intake roar, not to mention a mechanical valvetrain tremolo.
    — John Phillips, Car and Driver, 20 May 2020
  • The mandolin quartet was developed, mixing treble and bass versions of the instrument, and the technique of the tremolo was taken to new heights of sophistication.
    — Tim Parks, New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2026
  • For example, Reyes learned Jiménez’s technique of adding a small drop of lead to a reed to change its pitch ever so slightly, creating a special tremolo vibrato effect.
    — Daniel Sheehy, Smithsonian, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Small motifs to be repeated virtually at random create woozy effects, followed by anxious string tremolos, mad scrambles and threats from brasses and percussion.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 22 June 2023
  • Amps were played pretty clean most of the time, the gentle 'tremolo bridge' had yet to be recast as the wild, feedback-screaming 'whammy bar,' and the three-way pickup selector switch wasn't designed to get jammed in between positions.
    — New Atlas, 10 July 2024
  • And the customary piccolo tremolo that used to run above the crowd noise of every comedy club—the excess laughter of the one drunk and slightly hysterical patron—had no purchase or possibility here.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 7 June 2021
  • Modulation effects include chorus, phaser, flangers, vibrato pedals and tremolos.
    — New Atlas, 5 Sep. 2024
  • The eight-minute soundpiece draws on elements of the Polish composer’s early, avant-garde manner — here, tremolo glissandos in the strings and dense nine-part chords in the low brass — but uses them more subtly and poetically.
    — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Additional features include a two-point steel tremolo, synthetic bone nut, vintage-style tuners and the PRS double-acting truss rod that’s accessible from the front of the headstock.
    — Ron Hart, SPIN, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Andrea Gibson read her own poems, exercises in sentimental emotionalism, with a throbbing, exaggerated tremolo.
    — Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2017
  • The sequel, scheduled for February 2017, indeed contains intrigue, an assassination plot, gun-slinging, and a lot of confused feelings, which the as-yet-unnamed director will be sure to play up with some chiaroscuro and tremolo on the soundtrack.
    — Chelsea Peng, Marie Claire, 22 Sep. 2015
  • Avery Sullivan, with whom Morris also plays in the country-rock band Fust, keeps loose time on drums, tapping the snare like someone setting down coffee mugs while Libby Rodenbough scrapes out a few melody lines on her fiddle and colors empty spaces with some ghostly tremolo.
    — Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 1 Apr. 2026

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