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
• Ronnie Spector, whose hard-edged yet tremulous voice soared on the Ronettes’ girl-group hits of the early ‘60s, died on Wednesday of cancer.
  — Chris Morris, Variety, 12 Jan. 2022
• 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
• The wobbly lines twist into one another, and the contours are tremulous and awkward.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 27 June 2021
• His voice trips between tremulous Christensen and baritone Jones.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 22 June 2022
• Their tremulous, tentative courtship leads to a disaster of a wedding night.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 May 2020
• 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
• The show, which is based on the romance novels by Julia Quinn and produced by Shonda Rhimes, seduces with its tremulous sighs, feigned swoons, and montages of scenes between the sheets.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• His tone and cadence take after the saccharine blather of the great Christian pitchmen of radio and TV, the hucksters who mastered the catch in the throat, the tremulous quaver and gulp, because as every pro knows that’s where the money is.
  — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2018
• But amidst these bolder insistences comes a tremulous query, repeated with a slight, gentle halter.
  — Rachelvoronacote, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• 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
• Even the most fainthearted and tremulous of our fellow citizens—our CEOs—could stick up for free speech without being called Nazi sympathizers.
  — WSJ, 23 Apr. 2021
• 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
• Dominik seems to have directed De Armas to lead with her tremulous vulnerability, to drift through the movie in blurred states of fragility, anxiety and panic.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2022
• 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
• The other council member is Fern, who is white and portrayed by Becca A. Lewis with a tremulous air that bespeaks the insecurity of a woman who lacks the economic means of other parents.
  — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2019
• The majestic rings seeming almost cartoonish and somehow unreal in the tremulous views from telescopes.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2017
• In high, tremulous voices, the Sisters of the Holy Family were chanting their midday prayers when a child’s gleeful shout echoed from a nearby corridor, punctuating the solemn incantation.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2022
• Hypersensitive, shy and tremulous young Yves Saint Laurent must have suffered acutely upon first reaching Paris.
  — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 4 June 2021
• Light, as a tremulous Stepford wife watching her world unravel with each glass of wine, does an enormous amount of acting with very few lines, and McTeer plays her imperious critic with casual, note-perfect hauteur.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 16 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024