Meaning of knee-trembling | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Filled with strong emotion
2. Terrified.
3. Thrilled.
4. Overwhelmed.
5. Causing strong emotion; thrilling.
6. Very frightening.
7. Causing a feeling of rapture.
8. Impressive.
9. Involving a knee-trembler.

Examples

“A terrible, knee-trembling wash of terror ran down his spine as he lifted the gun and pressed its cold metal to his chest.”

“An example: say Lyndon Baines Johnson had gotten wind that he was being trashed by some Capitol Hill minnow, chances are a single phone call from the Oval Office would have been enough to induce a knee-trembling silence.”

“One ship's captain remembered Blackbeard as 'a tall, spare man' - an unembroidered eye-witness description that supports many knee-trembling references to a giant of a man, a devil in disguise.”

“Her knee-trembling, heart-pounding fear of thunderstorms was no match for her fascination with the light show offered by the sky.”

“"I just want to look at you," he said, his blatant stare filling her with knee-trembling excitement.”

“The first said Clare Philips and Magpie, the second, to my knee-trembling delight, said Adam Bray and Custar and the third one we came to said Paula Wilkie and Jazz, so we went in.”

“Hearing the familiar voice, I felt a sudden rush of stomach-empty, knee-trembling relief.”

“Knee-trembling exhaustion. With each step he'd felt like he was fighting gravity just to stay upright and he'd developed a niggling pain in his lower back, the first pain he had experienced in all his very long years.”

“The precursor to advancing across unknown ground was knee-trembling agitation: this may be for the last time.”

“The putting surface, however, has three levels and it can offer a knee-trembling experience where the danger of a three-putt is acute.”

“Where, the purists cry, are the heart-racing climbs and knee-trembling descents for which the Dolomites is justly famed?”

“Standing near the soloists during a finale was a knee-trembling experience.”

“Things like the consciousness-expanding, life-altering, knee-trembling mind and music of John Winston Ono Lennon.”

“Marc flashed me one of his knee-trembling smiles and a minute later we pulled up outside a quaint little pub.”

“It was one thing to accept Axel's friendship, even a friendship with some knee-trembling benefits.”

“If the trust's assets grow by 5 per cent each year, the redemption yield for capital shareholders will be a knee-trembling 75.9 per cent a year.”

“Not only is it now acceptable to be curious — and this book is largely about how that came to be the case — but it is easier than ever, because of the knee-trembling quantity of information we have at our fingertips.”

“A vast foyer leads to a pool area of knee-trembling tranquillity, an oasis of polished tiles and palm trees arranged in a swaying phalanx around an elegant infinity pool.”

“That is definitely better than having them all walking the streets, dropping litter, binge-drinking in pubs, defecating in alleyways, having knee-trembling encounters in skips that frequently result in pregnancy, and so on.”

“Suggestions of a knee-trembling encounter on a snooker table in Bird's gentlemen's club lend the story a Palmerstonesque flavour – legend has it that the Victorian prime minister and old rascal died while potting the balls on the green baize with his maid.”

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