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Example sentences for "trembles"

Lexicographically close words:
tremble; trembled; tremblement; tremblements; trembler; trembleth; trembling; tremblingly; tremblings; trembly
  1. It echoes; it trembles along the corridor outside; it seems to shake the very walls of the death-chamber.

  2. In many places man trembles at this day, because his progenitors have trembled for thousands of years past.

  3. Believe me, believe me," Peter pleaded; "every fibre of my being trembles in what I say to you.

  4. Athene looks again out of thy lids, And Venus trembles in thy every limb!

  5. A dumb dread trembles from you sufferingly.

  6. Again his heart almost stands still, and the sacred word "mother" trembles on his lips, as he bends forward to get a quick glance of the face that must be disclosed by the shifting of the vail.

  7. John no longer trembles in anticipation of what is to come.

  8. He trembles all over, groans, takes a couple of tottering steps forward, and then leans against the wall for support.

  9. As NA¶ldeke has remarked, the grandest SAºras of the whole Koran are those in which Mua¸Yammad describes how all Nature trembles and quakes at the approach of the Last Judgment.

  10. He trembles to be laid asleep, Tho' worn and old and weary grown.

  11. The earth trembles and the mountains reel as it leaps into the yawning chasm below.

  12. Reason trembles to explore, She feels, be mercy granted or denied, 'Tis her's in dumb submission to adore.

  13. Others will follow in its wake, and they will shake and undermine the ground on which you stand, until it trembles and yawns beneath your feet, and you will sink to depths great as the height to which you have risen.

  14. You even cast suspicion on the promptings of a mother's love, and misjudge her who, without fear or care for herself, trembles for the future of an only child!

  15. As it is, my hand trembles under his grueling stare.

  16. My hand trembles so that I can scarcely write.

  17. Care for her callow young consumes her rest, My very voice her downy bosom shakes, And her heart pants beneath its plumy vest, And the nest trembles with each breath she takes.

  18. The tyrant is flattered even to an appearance of adoration, and every one trembles at the glance of his eye; but, at the least revolt, this enormous power perishes by its own excess.

  19. The earth still trembles to his retiring footsteps and to the portentous reaction of his wrestle in war with the gods.

  20. Can I such wrong of one so kind believe, Who lives but in my smile, who trembles when I grieve?

  21. Well, well, and how she trembles and dissembles.

  22. The field drifts with blinding dust, and the startled earth trembles under the tramp of feet.

  23. Heraclitus signs his contract with a shudder, and trembles as he places his realized premium in the bank.

  24. Mazarine trembles for his power, and looks around him for men of head and action, to aid him in breasting the storm and carrying out his schemes.

  25. I am afraid my heart trembles at the thought of this encounter, as it never did in battle.

  26. As a man trembles at the thought of death, Trenck trembled at the thought of life.

  27. When Juno animates the Greeks, she reminds them how their enemies fear Achilles; and when Andromache trembles for Hector, it is with the remembrance of his resistless force.

  28. One trembles to think, by the way what a "mere husband" must have been in the reigns of William or Anne.

  29. Why he toasts you and trembles where you are spoke of.

  30. Echo hence shall stir No sighs but sigh-warm kisses, or light noise Of thy combing hand, the while it travelling cloys And trembles through my labyrinthine hair.

  31. Along the river's summer walk, The withered tufts of asters nod; And trembles on its arid stalk The boar plume of the golden-rod.

  32. The tongue falters in giving them utterance; the pen trembles that records them.

  33. But his friend does not seem to sympathize with the cheerful feelings of his comrade; he is pale, and there is terror on his face; and you may see that the journal in his hand trembles like a leaf.

  34. Suddenly she trembles from head to foot, and, hiding her face in the pillow, she bursts into tears.

  35. Stella's hand he retains a few seconds longer than he ought, and he notices that it trembles in his own.

  36. Stella exclaims; her soft voice has a strange power to touch the heart, and in its gayest tones there always trembles something like suppressed tears.

  37. She starts, drops her hands in her lap, and gazes at him with such terrible despair in her eyes that for an instant he trembles for her reason.

  38. Let us be faithful to that "Which though it trembles as it lowly lies, Points to the light that changes not in heaven.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trembles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    quiver; shakes; shiver; sweat; tremble