How to Use tremor in a Sentence

tremor

noun
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  • I heard a tremor in her voice.
  • His tremors were caused by the disease.
  • Small tremors were still being felt several days after the earthquake.
  • The Start of the Wobble The first tremor came about a year and a half after Imbrie’s proof.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The man’s body shook with a wild tremor that nearly knocked him down again.
    — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The glove fits—and fights the tremors of Parkinson’s The GyroGlove dampens tremors in the wearer’s hand.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Her sons were still in the truck when the magnitude-7.1 tremor violently shook the earth.
    — Holly Yan, CNN, 8 July 2019
  • Anna Grill didn't notice the slight tremor in her left pinky.
    — Danielle Campoamor, Woman's Day, 23 July 2020
  • People in the capital of Port-au-Prince felt the tremor and many rushed into the streets in fear.
    — Fox News, 14 Aug. 2021
  • Over 9,000 aftershocks and two more tremors have occurred in the region since the quakes.
    — Ibtissem Guenfoud, ABC News, 27 Feb. 2023
  • This town is 500 miles southwest of Fort Worth in West Texas, the region with the most earth tremor concern.
    — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 July 2024
  • The tremors of 1906 ripped gas mains throughout the city, causing flames to lash through its neighborhoods.
    — Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 18 Apr. 2020
  • There have been hundreds of aftershocks and tremors still shake the region.
    — Raja Abdulrahim Nicole Tung, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2023
  • The tremors sent ripples throughout the surrounding area.
    — Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Xiomara Cedeño, 34, said the electricity at her house went out for about a day after the first of the strong tremors, which came late Dec. 28.
    — Frances Robles, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Jan. 2020
  • The sharp-eyed pilot had only the slightest tremor in his voice despite his 90-plus years.
    — Elliot Ackerman, Wired, 26 Jan. 2021
  • The tremor registered as a 5.4 magnitude earthquake, among the largest recorded in the state.
    — J. David Goodman, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Jan. 2023
  • The sound New York makes before everyone is up, its stereo tremor.
    — Melinda Stevens, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2019
  • The tremor of conflict in 2014 turned into an earthquake as far as Russia and the West were concerned.
    — Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 19 June 2023
  • The accounts of his tremors and other symptoms form a kind of shadow narrative to the main one.
    — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2020
  • Thick, cold air would slow the tremor of vocal cords and the speed of sound itself, deepening your voice and giving it a rasp.
    — Popular Science, 26 Jan. 2020
  • The first symptom may be a barely noticeable tremor in just one hand.
    — Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Why had there not been even a tremor of doubt through the fantasies of being some new Walt Whitman-Cheryl Strayed hybrid?
    — Leyton Cassidy, Longreads, 7 May 2024
  • The tremor was measured at an initial depth of 80 kilometers (50 miles).
    — Junko Ogura, CNN, 7 Oct. 2021
  • In fact, Bamba threw down a two-handed dunk shortly after the tremors.
    — Roy Parry, orlandosentinel.com, 6 July 2019
  • More than 2,400 people from as far away as Coarsegold reported feeling the tremor to the agency.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 2 June 2024
  • If Lemon’s firing is a tremor, Carlson’s is an earthquake.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 24 Apr. 2023
  • As Israel and Iran trade blows, their competing views of the same events are sending tremors through the Middle East.
    — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2024
  • If the investors have to dump their holdings, only a minor market tremor will be felt.
    — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Parkinson's disease is a nervous system disorder that can cause tremors, movement and balance issues and problems with speech.
    — Becky Sullivan, NPR, 24 Sep. 2024

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