quivered

Example Sentences

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While the video played, Doncic’s lip quivered as tears pooled in the corners of his eyes, his emotion at its most visible.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2025

“I quivered at the end of every year when we learned what the budget was,” Waters said.

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2024

Time itself quivered with the sound, that terrible, haunting chirping, adversely impacting our mental health forever.

From Salon • Feb. 9, 2024

The only place that grass grew in designer Jonathan Anderson’s fashion dystopia was literally out of shoes, where green blades quivered and flapped surreally as the automatons filed by.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 25, 2022

My nostrils quivered as I felt the song of the mockingbirds and the drone of the grasshoppers mingle with the pulse of the earth.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya