How to Use tremor in a Sentence

tremor

noun
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  • I heard a tremor in her voice.
  • His tremors were caused by the disease.
  • Small tremors were still being felt several days after the earthquake.
  • The Start of the Wobble The first tremor came about a year and a half after Imbrie’s proof.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The man’s body shook with a wild tremor that nearly knocked him down again.
    — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The glove fits—and fights the tremors of Parkinson’s The GyroGlove dampens tremors in the wearer’s hand.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Jan. 2024
  • People in the capital of Port-au-Prince felt the tremor and many rushed into the streets in fear.
    — Fox News, 14 Aug. 2021
  • Over 9,000 aftershocks and two more tremors have occurred in the region since the quakes.
    — Ibtissem Guenfoud, ABC News, 27 Feb. 2023
  • There have been hundreds of aftershocks and tremors still shake the region.
    — Raja Abdulrahim Nicole Tung, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2023
  • The tremors sent ripples throughout the surrounding area.
    — Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The tremor registered as a 5.4 magnitude earthquake, among the largest recorded in the state.
    — J. David Goodman, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Jan. 2023
  • The first symptom may be a barely noticeable tremor in just one hand.
    — Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The tremor was measured at an initial depth of 80 kilometers (50 miles).
    — Junko Ogura, CNN, 7 Oct. 2021
  • If Lemon’s firing is a tremor, Carlson’s is an earthquake.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 24 Apr. 2023
  • If the investors have to dump their holdings, only a minor market tremor will be felt.
    — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
  • People in Port-au-Prince felt the tremor and many rushed into the streets in fear, although there did not appear to be damage there.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 15 Aug. 2021
  • That sent tremors through the shipyard of Kimek, the largest industrial employer in the region.
    — Melissa Eddy Patrick Junker, New York Times, 10 July 2023
  • The symptoms include stiffness, a slowing of body movements and tremors.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Its first tremors are already being felt, and nowhere more than in global culture.
    — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Family Man’s powerful bass ripples through the song with the force of a seismic tremor.
    — Patricia Meschino, Rolling Stone, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Two days after the initial tremor, a military helicopter brought supplies and on the fifth day the road was cleared.
    — Tanya Titova, Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2023
  • But just 44 seconds of focused ultrasound waves got rid of her tremor.
    — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 15 Jan. 2023
  • The downside, though, is that every volcanic eruption or tremor in the area is a reminder of the fear that plagues the people who call the surrounding area home.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Like Kitchel's initial symptoms, Parkinson's often starts with a tremor in one hand.
    — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Search and rescue crews in Turkey and Syria are surveying the latest damage from the new tremor.
    — Ibtissem Guenfoud, ABC News, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Lewy body dementia can cause tremors and change sleep patterns.
    — Jessica Wapner, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The epicenter of Friday's tremor was high in the Atlas Mountains, roughly 45 miles south of Marrakech.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 9 Sep. 2023
  • The pastoral vista shook with tremors from shelling, and every few moments, bits of the landscape burst into three-story clouds of dust and debris.
    — Matt Bradley, NBC News, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Ground from a mineral called cinnabar, the substance would have sent them into a fevered trance with tremors and delirium.
    — Bridget Alex, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Those tremors signalled a high likelihood of an eruption, Met officials said at the time.
    — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 14 Jan. 2024

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