quaver
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The tart, bluesy quaver in Andra Day’s voice has a long heritage.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2024
There was a quaver in his voice, which defined the depth of his emotion.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 23, 2021
It’s where Alana first says “You’re sweet, Gary,” a line Haim delivers with a lovely little quaver, as if a mask were falling away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2021
Tears sprang to my eyes again, lending a quaver to my voice.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2019
Tyrion spoke up loudly, trying to keep the quaver from his voice.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
The music is an arena-country crescendo, from acoustic-guitar strum to full-band impact topped by pedal-steel guitar, along with gospel-organ underpinnings and country quavers in Beyoncé’s vocal lines.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2024
“They got him,” Ms. Dillon’s character quavers in “Close Encounters” after her son is snatched by aliens through the doggy-door in their kitchen.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 4, 2023
“There are things out there,” a character quavers.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 9, 2020
In one particularly musical moment, he expresses planetary motions in musical notation — the orbits of Mercury, Venus and their neighbours spun out into crotchets and quavers.
From Nature ● Mar. 17, 2015
The light filtering in from above shifts again, and the figure quavers as though she were watching through a heat haze, though Mr. A. H— remains comparatively crisp and clear.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
Dressed in a traditional feathered cloak, her voice quavered as she thrust a photo of her mother at the committee.
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2023
Thompson’s eyes welled with tears and her voice quavered.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2021
As her voice quavered, I felt a surge of emotion so strong it seemed to paralyze me.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2018
Palm Springs Police Chief Bryan Reyes’ voice quavered at a news conference hours later as he described watching Zerebny’s husband, a Riverside County sheriff's deputy, say goodbye to his wife.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2016
She repeated and her voice shook and quavered: "It was shaped like a bear...."
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
What only seems familiar: Powering out of a slow corner with the pedal pinned, the car pulling its guts out, stretching for the redline, revs quavering at the upshifts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026
“She brightened my life with her happiness and bravery. I will keep preserving her spirit,” Hsiao said in a quavering voice.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 31, 2023
“I didn’t shoot my wife or my son. Anytime. Ever,” he declared in a long, quavering Southern drawl.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 27, 2023
“I am an angel with a broken wing,” sings a woman in a thin, quavering voice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2022
“I can get killed flying them, too,” Dobbs answered pugnaciously in his rough, quavering, overwrought voice.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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