Sentence example with the word 'quaver'

quaver

accidental, choked voice, dyslogia, grimace, intone, muzzy speech, quivering, sing in chorus, tingle, twang, writhe

Definition n. a tremulous sound

Last update: July 15, 2015


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His voice was quavering.   [noun]

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We could all hear the quaver in her voice.   [adjective]

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Quaver passages should, in general, rise in intensity and purpose as the notes rise, and die as they fall.   [Please select]

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Alto drummers may reinforce the desired impression of quaver triplets by playing their parts as in Figure 1. Figure 1.   [Please select]

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"I have no curiosity to see him at all," said the Baronet, whose courage seemed, from a certain quaver in his accent, to have taken a fit of the ague.   [Please select]

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Although his thin boy's voice quavered, he seemed the more royal for the human weakness.   [Please select]

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In his voice was an old quaver which was not habitual and there was agitation in every line of his visage.   [Please select]

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"One thousand and three hundred," said Ayoub with a quaver of uneasy defiance.   [Please select]

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Why, she--" "I don't know, I don't know," the troubled woman quavered."   [Please select]

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"Oh, but Aunt Polly, I didn't mean--It was just a--a joke," she quavered in quick distress.   [Please select]

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