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- noun Plural form of
tremblor .
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Examples
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Yet its politics are lively, and the very land has malaria, as you might say; it has periodic shakes, earthquakes, "tremblors," they call them, or "trembloritos," according to size.
The Belted Seas Arthur Willis Colton
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Seismologists concluded that giant earthquakes can trigger distant small tremblors but not large quakes.
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And Thirteen, although the buildings were not even observed to move at all when the planes crashed into them, nearby geological observatories detected seismic tremblors as if there had been massive explosions at ground level when the buildings collapsed.
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Beltar shifted his weight silently, and another set of tremblors raced through the ground toward Sarron.
The Order War Modesitt, L. E. 1995
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Beltar shifted his weight silently, and another set of tremblors raced through the ground toward Sarron.
The Order War Modesitt, L. E. 1995
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And when they'd once taken that idea, it made no difference if they'd felt little motors every few days all their lives, and trembloritos and tremblors pretty frequent.
The Belted Seas Arthur Willis Colton
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Titiaca gossiped, and told us the keeper was a magician, and master of the winds, and probably the bestower of rain and sunshine, and certain his light in the tower was connected underground with one of the volcanoes, so that he could tap different grades of earthquakes, graded as "motors, trembloritos, and tremblors," according to size.
The Belted Seas Arthur Willis Colton
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Manhattan Island, from whence the rest of the country derives its panics, its jazz tremblors and its girl shows, develops a severe sinking sensation in the pit of its financial stomach, accompanied by acute darting pains at the juncture of Broad and Wall.
One Third Off Tony Sarg 1910
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It follows a series of tremblors that struck Southern California over the weekend, including a pair of moderate earthquakes that rattled a desert area east of San Diego.
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But ever prepared for heavy tremblors, the Land of the Rising Sun seems, once more, to have emerged without so much as a scratch.
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