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How to use tremor in a sentence

29 example sentences · noun, verb

Tremor means a shake, quiver, or vibration. Example: “She felt a tremor in her stomach before going on stage.”

Examples of tremor by meaning

nounA shake, quiver, or vibration.

  • She felt a tremor in her stomach before going on stage.

nounA rhythmic, uncontrollable shaking of all or part of the body due to partial muscle contractions.

  • The optometrist has been losing patients ever since he developed tremors in his hand.

nounAn earthquake.

  • Did you feel the tremor this morning?

verbTo shake or quiver excessively and rapidly or involuntarily; to tremble.

  • The ground tremored under their big boots.2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 17, in Small Island, London: Review, page 188

More sentences with tremor

  • Soon as I felt the floor tremor I made a dart for the door.From the entry dart
  • Essential tremor, a neurological disorder that causes hand tremors, is suspected by some researchers to be a forme fruste of Parkinson's disease.From the entry forme fruste
  • That flutter in your voice is a vocal tremor, caused by the involuntary contractions of muscles in the larynx, throat or other adjacent parts of the body.From the entry flutter
  • Similarly, tremor of the tongue can be caused by parkinsonism, alcoholism and thyrotoxicosis.2015, Neera Choudhary et al., “Isolated lingual involvement in Wilson's disease”, in Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice, volume 6…. From the entry heredodegenerative
  • The tremor in my left hand is like the ominous grating note of a failing engine.2013, Marcel Theroux, Strange Bodies. From the entry sparking
  • But in the past eight months, I hadn't felt even a tremor of oneitis.2011, Neil Strauss, The Game and Rules of the Game. From the entry oneitis
  • Patients with essential tremor will often complain of difficulty with handwriting.2003, Mary J. Shomon, Jill Marjama-Lyons, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About(TM): Parkinson's Disease: A Holistic Program for Optimal…. From the entry essential tremor
  • Charcot later gave the classical picture of incoordination, tremor and nystagmus.1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 527. From the entry incoordination
  • The streets of Shanghai rattled with revolutionary tremors as Chiang's armies came closer and closer.1983, Harrison E. Salisbury, China: 100 Years of Revolution, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 90. From the entry Kashing
  • He sensed Wheeler tensing, the slightest of tremors in the stillness of the ruined chapel, a flitter of irritation.2016, Mark Douglas-Home, The Malice of Waves. From the entry flitter
  • The island is also in the earthquake and typhoon belts and violent rains, floods, winds and tremors are common.1972, John Coyne, Tom Hebert, This Way Out: A Guide to Alternatives to Traditional College Education in the United States, Europe and the…. From the entry Yu Shan
  • I marvel that a mind on the outs with itself should have nevertheless made a painstaking record of its every tremor.1961, Joan Didion, “On Self-Respect”, in Slouching Towards Bethlehem. From the entry on the outs
  • The tremor, which was felt by many Ste.1933 August 17, Crystal City Press, volume 18, number 9, Crystal City, Mo.. From the entry Ste. Genevievian
  • Patients experience tremors and unstoppable vomiting.2025 December 15, Jan Hoffman, “A Powerful New Drug Is Creating a 'Withdrawal Crisis' in Philadelphia. Medetomidine, a veterinary…. From the entry medetomidine
  • On one occasion, or so legend has it, a ball fell from a dragon; when no tremor could be felt, scholars were mystified.2015, David Whitehouse, “The Messengers”, in Journey to the Centre of the Earth: The Remarkable Voyage of Scientific Discovery into the…. From the entry Longxi
  • Symptoms and signs include cognitive and memory dysfunction, confusion, psychiatric disturbances, focal and generalized epileptic seizures, stroke-like episodes, myoclonus, ataxia, tremor, and choreatiform movements.2015 July 26, David Carl et al., “Steroid responsive encephalopathy associated with autoimmune thyroiditis following ipilimumab therapy: a…. From the entry choreatiform
  • The tremor hit at 4:17am, with its epicenter 16km south of Chiahsien in Kaohsiung County and 6.9 kilometers underground, according to the Seismology Center.2004 May 9, “Taiwan Quick Take”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2004, Taiwan News, page 3. From the entry Chiahsien
  • The earth tremors resumed and made a bourdon to the loud psalms that they sang, interspersed with the odd ode of Horace recited by Silas.1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked. From the entry bourdon
  • The chainshot, called two-headed angels, made her think of Evonne's ship and gave her a brief tremor of emotion amid her work.1980, Valerie Vayle, Seaflame, →ISBN, page 314. From the entry chainshot
  • There may be dizziness, clumsiness and ataxia; dysarthria, nystagmus, mental disturbances, nervousness, tremor, lallation, confusion, peculiar behavior, weakness of judgment, emotional instability and hallucinations.1962, Ashton L. Welsh, Side Effects of Anti-Obesity Drugs, Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas, Part 3, p. 173. From the entry lallation
  • "I figure I might as well be gay and risquée while I can," she says, with a little tremor in her boyish voice.1943 April 10, Dorothy Kilgallen, “The Magic Moniker”, in Collier’s, volume 111, number 15, Springfield, Oh.: The Crowell-Collier…. From the entry risqué
  • The geste antagoniste, the combination of a self-intended movement or posture and the elucidation of sensory effects in the patient, reduces cervical dystonia and dystonic neck tremor.2016, Hsin Fen Chien, Movement Disorders Rehabilitation, page 69. From the entry geste antagoniste
  • Argentina’s financial tremors, plus the spectacle of a near-coup in oil-rich Venezuela in April and a heating-up guerrilla war in Colombia, have drawn attention to what Mr.2002 August 7, Howard LaFranchi, quoting Michael Shifter, “S. America reels, looks north again”, in The Christian Science Monitor, page 1. From the entry axis of upheaval
  • During the night and following day of 11 Jumadda I, there was an earthquake in Zabid and its districts; tremors continued day and night and the people were alarmed.1994, N. N. Ambraseys, C. P. Melville, R. D. Adams, The Seismicity of Egypt, Arabia and the Red Sea, page 52. From the entry Jumada I
  • Physicians, recruited to the antitea cause, stated that the drink weakened "the tone of the stomach, and therefore of the whole system, inducing' tremors and spasmodic affections."1989, Page Smith, A new age now begins: a people's history of the American Revolution. From the entry antitea

Meaning of tremor

  1. noun A shake, quiver, or vibration.
  2. noun A rhythmic, uncontrollable shaking of all or part of the body due to partial muscle contractions.
  3. noun An earthquake.

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Questions about tremor in a sentence

How do you use tremor in a sentence?
Tremor is used as a noun and verb. For example: “She felt a tremor in her stomach before going on stage.”
What is a short sentence with tremor?
“Patients experience tremors and unstoppable vomiting.”
What does tremor mean?
Tremor means a shake, quiver, or vibration.

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