adjective
definition
Trembling, quivering, or shaking.
definition
Timid, hesitant; lacking confidence.
Examples of tremulous in a Sentence
She spoke in a soft, tremulous voice, and in the weary eyes that looked over her spectacles Sonya read all that the countess meant to convey with these words.
It was a tremulous motion, more than a sudden jar.
These bodily changes can also affect the voice, making it sound tremulous, or disjointed by over-rapid breathing.
That tremulous expression on Natasha's face, prepared either for despair or rapture, suddenly brightened into a happy, grateful, childlike smile.
The sound of voices, the tramping feet, the horses' hoofs moving in mud, the crackling of wood fires near and afar, merged into one tremulous rumble.
She is blind to Miss Drone 's tremulous smile of pretense that she has chosen to be a wallflower.
I try to be more optimistic, think... The cassette barely picks up his voice, it is so tremulous and uncaring.
I try to be more optimistic, think... " The cassette barely picks up his voice, it is so tremulous and uncaring.
When the crowd collected round him he seemed confused, but at the demand of the tall lad who had pushed his way up to him, he began in a rather tremulous voice to read the sheet from the beginning.
Suddenly rooted to the spot, the music halts to leave Lynch 's tremulous vocals trail off uneasily.
And yet they seem alive and quivering Against my tremulous hands which loose the string And let them drop down on my knee to-night.
Many were visibly affected, and it was in tremulous tones that the congregation entered upon the singing.
Bright also attempted to address the House, but, after a sentence or two delivered in a tremulous voice, he was overpowered with emotion, and declared he must leave to a calmer moment what he had to say on the life and character of the manliest and gentlest spirit that ever quitted or tenanted a human form.
And it is perhaps not arbitrary to suppose that the splendour of the ritual in Amos's time implies a tremulous anxiety that Israel's seeming prosperity under Jeroboam II.
The roundish leaves, toothed on the margin, are slightly downy when young, but afterwards smooth, dark green on the upper and greyish green on the lower surface; the long slender petioles, much flattened towards the outer end, allow of free lateral motion by the lightest breeze, giving the foliage its well-known tremulous character.