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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of quaver.

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Examples

  • Half-way across the glade he stopped short and whirled, catlike, facing back the way he had come, as a long-drawn call quavered out across the forest.

    The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • Half-way across the glade he stopped short and whirled, catlike, facing back the way he had come, as a long-drawn call quavered out across the forest.

    The Conquering Sword Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • Halfway across the glade he stopped short and whirled, catlike, facing back the way he had come, as a long-drawn call quavered out across the forest.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

  • His voice quavered, and his gaze drifted toward the harbor, watching for the flare that the ship would send up.

    End of Time P. W. Catanese 2011

  • Despite Richard Keys's pre-sacking mea culpa, in which he quavered that he and Andy Gray had "failed to change while everything was changing around us", football is moving into the last century at a glacial pace.

    Having a Football Man at the FA has been one big failure | Marina Hyde 2011

  • There was a silence, then an elderly woman quavered, “I am.”

    Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011

  • "But — but," she quavered, "I — I —" and there was a suggestion of disappointment and tears in her voice.

    Amateur Night 2010

  • He could see him yet, his queer little monkeyish face eloquent with fear, his back burdened with specimen cases, in his hands Bassett's butterfly net and naturalist's shot-gun, as he quavered, in Beche-de-mer English: Me fella too much fright along bush.

    THE RED ONE 2010

  • "I like you, steward, very much," the old man quavered.

    CHAPTER XIII 2010

  • "Me old fella boy too much," the one-legged Methuselah quavered.

    CHAPTER 2 2010

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