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How to use the word trembling in a Sentence?

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We haven’t slept all night because of the explosions, and now I am out in the street with my wife and children, who are weeping and trembling.

Akram Farouq

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

It's not safe to drive in Minnesota while you're Black, the fact of the matter is there's so many of us who drive, and if we see police behind us, we're afraid, you know, we're trembling. That is a kind of terror that no citizen of the United States should ever have to face. It's constant. It's ever present.

Mike Elliott

Found on CNN
3 years ago

How the stars shone. How sweet the earth smelled. The orchard gate creaked, and a footstep pressed on the sand. And she entered, fragrant as a flower, and fell into my arms. Oh, sweet kisses, lingering caresses. Slowly, trembling, I gazed upon her beauty. Now my dream of true love is lost forever. My last hour has flown, and I die, hopeless, and never have I loved life more.”

Giacomo Puccini

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

There is a steep and lofty wall, Where my warders trembling stand, He who at speed shall ride round its height, For him shall be my hand.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

added by Madeleine Quinn
7 years ago

He was trembling he was so terrified, in an instant he could have shot and killed me.

Basil Saed

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Christ's boundless grace confronts our deep necessities. Christ's promised presence confronts our sad and gloomy loneliness. Jesus thus filled with grace so overflowing, with love so tender, with sympathy so exquisite, with power so illimitable, with resources so boundless, with a nature so changeless, stands before us and says to each trembling heart, 'Fear not!'”

Octavius Winslow (1808-1878)

added by meteorstorm
7 years ago

He feels sorry for them, he's trembling, my hand will not waver! I'm going to be firm with criminals!

Keiko Fujimori

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The joy of seeing her. My body can’t even contain it. I’m trembling, not because I’m nervous, but I’m so very, very happy.

Kristine Sydney

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Even if I say I'm not afraid of dying, that's not true, every time the plane is trembling I start writing testament.

Marina Abramovi?

Found on CNN
8 years ago

He was standing there and I came and stood right next to him, and for some reason turned. In my mind's eye I stripped off the beard, and saw the Foreign Service officer I had seen in Washington, D.C. I just impulsively said, 'You're Brad Bishop, aren't you?' And he began trembling and shaking and said 'Oh God, no' and turned around. I have no doubt it was him.

Jeremy Collins

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I don't have words to express, just my pain, my tears, my heart pounding harder and my body trembling.

Kevin Robello

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth...

Christina Rossetti

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first time love and weeping haikus of last hours on earth.

Aberjhani

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Tell me where I can escape death: discover for me the country, show me the men to whom I must go, whom death does not visit. Discover to me a charm against death. If I have not one, what do you wish me to do? I cannot escape from death, but shall I die lamenting and trembling? . . . Therefore if I am able to change externals according to my wish, I change them: but if I cannot, I am ready to tear the eyes out of him who hinders me.

Epictetus

added by anonymous
13 years ago

If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged.

Virginia

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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