How to Use tremolo in a Sentence

tremolo

noun

• Stage lights come up as the organ’s tremolo fills the hall.
  — Associated Press, Washington Post, 29 May 2017
• 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
• The eerie call of pint-sized Eastern screech owls sounds much more like a high-pitched warble or tremolo than a screech.
  — Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2014
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Some of these events recurred, like glissandos, playing on the bridge, and furiously bowed tremolos.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Breath comes raggedly, turning his powerful voice into a soft, pausing tremolo.
  — Christopher Maag, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2023
• A few bars of barely felt hummingbird trills morphed into a section of full-throttle, aggressive tremolo bowing.
  — Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 19 May 2017
• 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 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
• Like, sorry: tremolo, pizzicato, andante, pianissimo, forte, and more are simply horny words.
  — Vulture, 1 May 2023
• 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
• 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
• Muhly, more respectful than most, preserves the crisp, clean lines of Monteverdi’s score while filling in all manner of instrumental filigree: delicate arpeggios in the harp, buzzing tremolos in the strings, decorative flourishes in the winds.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
• For example, his signature right-hand tremolo is fully established.
  — Marc Myers, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
• 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
• The music, by Akira Miyoshi and Michael Gordon, is more urgent — tremolos on marimba, mysterious and thunderous — and the choreography is more agitated: an exchange of whiplash duets and trios like excited molecules.
  — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2020
• Fats Domino announced himself with this single: a two-fisted boogie-woogie piano intro with tremolo flourishes, verses that establish his 200-pound physique and his New Orleans locale and a falsetto vocal like a trumpet solo.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2017
• Occasionally, though, Muhly adds a flourish and a touch of his own idiom: tremolos of shivering tension; glassy violins giving way to arpeggiated textures; dirgelike calls from low brasses; fluttering winds.
  — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2023
• Andrea Gibson read her own poems, exercises in sentimental emotionalism, with a throbbing, exaggerated tremolo.
  — Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2017

Last Updated: 21 Oct 2024