TREMBLE in a Sentence

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1. My legs were trembling with fear.
2. tremble together, and we fall asleep.
3. This phantom caused the old world to tremble.
4. The slats of the blind could be seen to tremble at every shot.
5. With trembling fingers, he removed the camera from his pocket.

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 Meanings and Examples of TREMBLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
tremble
 v.  shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness; quake; quiver; shiver; shudder
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Scarcely had they reached the city, lamenting the death of their benefactor, when they felt the earth tremble under their feet.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In V
2  tremble together, and we fall asleep.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER
3  This phantom caused the old world to tremble.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT
4  Reflect and tremble in the presence of any one who has no glance at all.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—MINES AND MINERS
5  The Faubourg Saint-Antoine had also other causes to tremble; for it received the counter-shock of commercial crises, of failures, strikes, slack seasons, all inherent to great political disturbances.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
6  The spirit of the convent, with which she had been permeated for the space of five years, was still in the process of slow evaporation from her person, and made everything tremble around her.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE BATTLE BEGUN
7  This second explanation undid the work of the first, and the little fellow began to tremble again.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
8  For my part I don't tremble before a poppy, the little red hat inspires me with no alarm.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER IV—THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN
9  The blows from the butt end of the gun made the house tremble, but did not shake the door.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VIII—MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A C...
10  The slats of the blind could be seen to tremble at every shot.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—PASSING GLEAMS
11  At his announcement d'Artagnan felt himself tremble to the very marrow of his bones.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 6 HIS MAJESTY KING LOUIS XIII
12  You see very plainly that there is still danger for you, since a single word makes you tremble; and you confess that if that word were heard you would be ruined.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 11 IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS
13  It soon appeared to him that he heard a slight noise within--a timid noise which seemed to tremble lest it should be heard.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 24 THE PAVILION
14  "The answer to Madame's," replied Kitty, all in a tremble.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 35 A GASCON A MATCH FOR CUPID
15  The warm pressure made d'Artagnan tremble, as if by the touch that fever which consumed Milady attacked himself.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 36 DREAM OF VENGEANCE
Example Sentence:
1  His mouth became dry, his eyes widened, and he began to tremble all over.
2  Clear and bright pupil, the MI, long eyelash tremble slightly, white flawless skin with light pink, thin lips like rose petals delicate drips.
3  I tremble to see his danger, because the similar scenario is coming to me.
4  She trembled till she shook the house, quite forgetting that she was now about a thousand times as large as the Rabbit, and had no reason to be afraid of it.
5  His lips trembled briefly, however, his face never let go of his expression of witless warmth.
6  I slipped out of the room, unobserved by any eye - for the company were gathered in one mass about the trembling trio just returned.
7  The earthquake shattered Stuart's usual stolid demeanor; trembling, he crouched on the no longer stable ground.
8  Through it all, he tries to cling to a trembling grip on reality, as love and pain coalesce into a shocking.
9  With trembling fingers, he removed the camera from his pocket.
10  My legs were trembling with fear.