How to Use tremor in a Sentence
tremor
noun- 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.
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Fultz has learned to cope with the tremors, the shaking.
—Richard Obert, azcentral, 3 May 2018
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Then came the draft, and a tremor passed out over the country.
—Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 5 June 2017
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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
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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
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At one point, one of Antle's legs starts to have tremors.
—Karen Caffarini, Post-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2017
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The glove fits—and fights the tremors of Parkinson’s The GyroGlove dampens tremors in the wearer’s hand.
—IEEE Spectrum, 8 Jan. 2024
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Her sons were still in the truck when the magnitude-7.1 tremor violently shook the earth.
—Holly Yan, CNN, 8 July 2019
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The tremors were also felt in La Cañada Flintridge, where the 22-year-old had grown up.
—Carol Cormaci, latimes.com, 14 May 2018
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Anna Grill didn't notice the slight tremor in her left pinky.
—Danielle Campoamor, Woman's Day, 23 July 2020
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The one warning sign that hasn't come yet is something called tremors.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2025
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People in the capital of Port-au-Prince felt the tremor and many rushed into the streets in fear.
—Fox News, 14 Aug. 2021
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The new tremors were recorded just on the boundary of where the fault zone is located.
—Agueda Pacheco-Flores, The Seattle Times, 22 Oct. 2018
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Over 9,000 aftershocks and two more tremors have occurred in the region since the quakes.
—Ibtissem Guenfoud, ABC News, 27 Feb. 2023
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Their bodies are shaken by tremors and, in the worst cases, seizures.
—Christopher Glazek, Esquire, 16 Oct. 2017
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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
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The tremors were also felt in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore.
—Salman Masood, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2016
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The political tremors in Italy are more like a scare than a rerun of the crisis of 2012.
—The Economist, 9 June 2018
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Cats also can see movement quite well and are able to detect a tremor of a whisker or a slight flick of the tail in their prey.
—Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 2 June 2017
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The tremors of 1906 ripped gas mains throughout the city, causing flames to lash through its neighborhoods.
—Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 18 Apr. 2020
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There have been hundreds of aftershocks and tremors still shake the region.
—Raja Abdulrahim Nicole Tung, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2023
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The event comes on the heels of a 6.6-magnitude earthquake in central Italy, the strongest tremor to hit the country in decades.
—Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 14 Nov. 2016
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The tremors sent ripples throughout the surrounding area.
—Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
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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
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The sharp-eyed pilot had only the slightest tremor in his voice despite his 90-plus years.
—Elliot Ackerman, Wired, 26 Jan. 2021
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The tremor registered as a 5.4 magnitude earthquake, among the largest recorded in the state.
—J. David Goodman, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Jan. 2023
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The city’s elevated train service was shut down in the wake of the tremor and people fled from tall buildings after the city was placed in a state of emergency.
—Lynsey Chutel, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
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The authorities closed schools and deployed emergency services to the region, and experts scrambled to interpret the tremors, which peaked with a 5.3-magnitude temblor on Feb. 10.
—Niki Kitsantonis, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
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