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
“I got this, sir,” Bill says, a quaver in his voice.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
“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
His voice quavers as he sings, “That’s why I enjoy every moment, because I know I’m not eternal.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2015
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
When it came time for him to address the gathering at his uncle’s grave, Franken’s voice quavered as he took in, for the first time, the cross that was about to be removed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2020
As her voice quavered, I felt a surge of emotion so strong it seemed to paralyze me.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2018
Her voice quavered with emotion as she read the moving opening stanza: “So, we’ll go no more a roving/So late into the night/Though the heart be still as loving/And the moon be still as bright.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2016
The old man’s voice quavered the word into a whole flock of syllables.
From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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
Voice quavering, I told Sam that I was looking for an actual relationship, one that could go somewhere.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2024
“Keep up the fight,” he told the audience in a quavering voice.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2024
“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
His voice sounded thin and quavering in the cold dark tower: the voice of a forlorn and weary hobbit that no listening orc could possibly mistake for the clear song of an Elven-lord.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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