tremulant

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for tremulant
Adjective
  • Viewers were yearning for the yearning, week after tremulous week.
    Thomas Page, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Even if international students were willing to take the risks of studying in the U.S. under a tremulous immigration policy, experts say a decline in research could knock U.S. universities off their global perch.
    Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 15 July 2025
Adjective
  • Finally, the Gators’ timid portal strategy is deliberate, not an unwillingness to adapt.
    Matt Baker, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Imagine a commissioner being called out like that directly and that timid, tepid statement.
    Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The great danger of that moment was that a political backlash — abetted by a furious media and timorous politicians — would lead to a restoration of the policy of Roe.
    The Editors, National Review, 24 June 2025
  • Hundreds of timorous Timothée Chalamet lookalikes congregated in Washington Square Park.
    Raven Smith, Vogue, 18 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Dickinson appeared somewhere between perturbed and seething.
    Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Hundreds of frightened residents gathered in a grassy field near the fire station and refused to return home hours after the quake struck Bogo in Cebu province.
    Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
  • So stay calm, control your breathing, don’t be frightened.
    Ellise Shafer, Variety, 29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Even with more women 55 and older in the workforce than ever before, women often are afraid to talk about menopause in the office.
    Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Bohemian homes are never afraid of color, particularly when AD100 designer Justina Blakeney is involved.
    Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • This is nothing to be alarmed over.
    Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 3 Oct. 2025
  • China, in particular, has in recent years alarmed Washington with its rapid progress in chip and AI technologies, prompting the blacklisting of Huawei in 2019 and hundreds of others in subsequent years.
    John Liu, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
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“Tremulant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tremulant. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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