quaver in English

noun
1
a shake or tremble in a person's voice.
Despite himself, a little quaver was in his voice.
verb
1
(of a person's voice) shake or tremble in speaking, typically through nervousness or emotion.
Monty spins to attention, his head raised with great offense, his voice quavering with emotion - ‘Why did you say that?’
synonyms:tremblewaverquivershakevibrateoscillatefluctuatefalterwarble
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Below are sample sentences containing the word "quaver" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "quaver", or refer to the context using the word "quaver" in the English Dictionary.

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2. A sustained pedal then accompanies the manuels, who have a dotted quaver, semi - quaver rhythm.

3. "That's true," chipped in Quaver.

4. There was a quaver in her voice.

5. His voice carried a barely perceptible quaver.

6. I quaver when speaking to large audiences.

7. There was a quaver in Beryl's voice.

8. You could hear the quaver in her voice.

9. Her voice was pitched unusually low to suppress the quaver.

10. She restrained herself with difficulty from showing a quaver in her voice.

11. There was the least quaver in her voice as she said this.

12. There was the quaver in her voice as she said this.

13. Her voice began to quaver and I thought she was going to cry.

14. Miss Su cursed him in Chinese. Her voice seemed to have a quaver in it.

15. There was a quaver in her voice as she thanked her staff for all their support.

16. The quaver would be far too quick for the pizzicato, especially in chord work like this.

17. The sign on the wall seemed to quaver under a film of sliding warm water.

18. The gurgling resolved itself into words pronounced with a lingering ghastly quaver. "Hail Mary, Hara Ram, " Gold Teeth said, "the snakes are after me.

19. A Venetian boat song in a time of six or twelve quaver beats to the bar an instrumental composition resembling this Word Origin for Barcarole C18: from French, from Italian barcarola, from barcaruolo …

20. It is, with the exception of the Prelude and the Air, the only movement of the Suite which has not originated in a dance-form.The Allemande is a piece of moderate rapidity—about an allegretto—in common time, and commencing usually with one short note, generally a quaver or semiquaver, at the end of