Small tremors were still being felt several days after the earthquake. I heard a tremor in her voice. His tremors were caused by the disease.
Recent Examples on the WebThe earthquake followed several others that began the previous day, including a magnitude 6.4 tremor the previous night. Elaine Yu, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2022 Shura felt something like a tremor in her breastbone. Sana Krasikov, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022 The California Governor's Office of Emergency Services said several aftershocks ranging from magnitude 2.5 to 4 were still hitting the region following the initial tremor. Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 20 Dec. 2021 First, on July 31, an American drone missile struck a house in central Kabul, its tremor felt for several miles. Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2022 Just when fans think their favorite guys are settled, a tremor occurs and all of a sudden, a coach gets fired or an assistant leaves for a higher-profile and higher-paying job. Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Aug. 2022 The tremor had forced hospital patients and medical staff in the city of Manila to evacuate. Landon Mion, Fox News, 27 July 2022 The damage to the wheat crop has sent yet another tremor through India’s underperforming agriculture sector.New York Times, 14 June 2022 The Cala Trio device is available by prescription only, and is calibrated to each patient’s individual brain signal patterns, addressing the root cause of essential tremor through electrical stimulation known as neuromodulation. Jim Vinoski, Forbes, 10 June 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Middle English tremour, from Anglo-French tremor, from Latin, from tremere