How to Use tremulous in a Sentence

tremulous

adjective
  • He spoke with a tremulous voice.
  • She opened the letter with tremulous hands.
  • Those tremulous parents, too, are bound to think of fall as a time of new beginnings.
    — Emily Richmond, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2017
  • Sugar is the group’s chanteuse; Monroe is the film’s tremulous heart and soul.
    — The New York Times Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Viewers were yearning for the yearning, week after tremulous week.
    — Thomas Page, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Their tremulous, tentative courtship leads to a disaster of a wedding night.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 May 2020
  • His voice trips between tremulous Christensen and baritone Jones.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 22 June 2022
  • The wobbly lines twist into one another, and the contours are tremulous and awkward.
    — Jason Farago, New York Times, 27 June 2021
  • That’s a bold proposition, if not a funny one, and Driver’s singing, at once tremulous and lusty, is no less unabashed.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
  • On a recent Friday, the mood was tremulous, the air scented with cinnamon and enigma.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 26 June 2018
  • But amidst these bolder insistences comes a tremulous query, repeated with a slight, gentle halter.
    — Rachelvoronacote, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Garnish as one desires, perhaps with a juicy blackberry or a hothouse flower, something dewy and tremulous, to be sure.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Anohni’s voice is tremulous and pained, which matches the shadowy flickering guitar supporting her.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 5 July 2023
  • Like a great white shark, Bourdain tends to be photographed with his jaws wide open, on the verge of sinking his teeth into some tremulous delicacy.
    — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2017
  • As bells and chanting reached a crescendo, amid clouds of incense, a woman in a black-and-copper deel, her schoolteacher’s face tremulous with ardor, came rushing in.
    — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • His vocalizations match his acting, from an almost rock style at the start of Valjean’s journey to the tremulous sound of its conclusion.
    — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 23 Oct. 2019
  • The majestic rings seeming almost cartoonish and somehow unreal in the tremulous views from telescopes.
    — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2017
  • She was played, in a star-making early role, by Winona Ryder, with a tremulous goth-girl resplendence that has never fully abandoned her.
    — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2024
  • The feathery falsetto, the tremulous vibrato, the percussive gasps and whoops — the vocal style that would captivate the world in a few years’ time was drifting into earshot.
    — Jody Rosen, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2021
  • The continuing, tremulous nodding of her head registers as a direct consequence of having worked too hard and too long to be a reassuring wife.
    — New York Times, 3 Aug. 2021
  • But the magic of Mahler — in his hush, in high strings creating a tremulous, vibratory atmosphere — is to reveal this as a mystical place.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2020
  • Youmans films his characters’ landscape with an eye that’s both rapturous and tremulous, frankly confrontational and tensely terrified.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2019
  • On the videos, wives recite lists of grievances in tremulous voices, like frightened villagers petitioning the czar in the days of the Russian Empire.
    — Natalia Abbakumova, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Willingham’s tremulous narrative voice might have some readers reaching for a calming agent, too, but her denouement is both surprising and plausible.
    — Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Lowery can't always keep the movie from drifting through the mists of pretension, and the tremulous, too-precious score, by Daniel Hart, is sometimes intrusive.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 13 July 2017
  • And Minnelli is clearly aware of the force of her performance, creating long takes that serve as a sort of proscenium as well as urgent closeups that burst with her tremulous power.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 10 June 2022
  • The left side of the South Korean defense looked particularly tremulous, and the French plowed at it ruthlessly.
    — Andrew Keh, New York Times, 7 June 2019
  • Yet Zendaya, an actor of tremulous, often wordless nuance, also shows us the mounting alarm behind Chani’s skepticism.
    — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Played by Michelle Williams at her most tremulous, this Marilyn is something like a butterfly that Hollywood wants to pin to a board and display.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 1 June 2026
  • Nonconforming bowel movements were reported in a tremulous voice so that menus had to be changed and Nicholas, the cook and general factotum, sent to the chemist for milk of magnesia.
    — Lynn Freed, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019

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