quaver

Example Sentences

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Removing his glasses to wipe his eyes with a handkerchief, he explained in a quavering voice that the department would be dropping off several dozen boxes of medical supplies.

From New York Times

“The water outside is already up to here,” radio host Ding Xiaopei said in a quavering voice, pointing to chest-high water outside her subway window, in a widely shared smartphone video clip.

From Washington Post

He tried to speak, but his voice quavered.

From New York Times

There’s quite a bit of off-key quavering in the company.

From Los Angeles Times

But so is a genuine sense of mutual love and desire, one that finds its tenderest expression in the incantatory quality of the lyrics and the quavering loveliness of the actors’ voices.

From Los Angeles Times