quavering in English

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
adjective
verb

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1. A quavering voice, a whimsical mind.

2. He spoke with a reedy, quavering voice.

3. He was quavering inwardly with nervousness.

4. The breeze set the flames of the quavering.

5. 12 He spoke with a reedy, quavering voice.

6. To be sounded in a trilling or quavering manner.

7. I answered yes in a quavering voice.

8. The quavering voice grew louder, filling the room.

9. Even his voice became quavering and lost its old masterfulness.

10. 'It's not true,' she said, in a quavering voice.

11. "I don't know what you mean, " said Fran in a quavering voice.

12. Synonyms for Chirring include warbling, trilling, chirping, singing, twittering, chirruping, quavering, cheeping, piping and tweeting

13. Such a thin strange quavering noise, and such a tense awkward atmosphere had built up.

14. Mrs. Wu Sun - fu had sprung up and called after him in a quavering voice.

15. They are women the age of grandmothers, gray-haired and with quavering voices, but whose remarks are full of vitriol.

16. Acker Bilk, as he was billed -- has won immortality on rock oldies radio for his surprise 1962 hit "Stranger on the Shore," an evocative ballad featuring his heavily quavering low-register clarinet over a bank of strings.To the jazz world, though, he has a longer-running track record as one of the biggest stars of Britain's trad jazz boom, playing in a distinctive early New