quivers

Example Sentences

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His lower lip quivers; there’s an expression on his face that my husband and I used to call “sad baby.”

From Slate • May 10, 2026

With calculations based on linear algebra, the research team demonstrated that -- analogous to radioactivity in atomic nuclei -- a magnetic quiver can decay into a more stable state or fission into two separate quivers.

From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2024

Mr McKeown, who is 37, was taken to Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, where they discovered he had suffered a ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest, which is when the heart quivers instead of pumping normally.

From BBC • Dec. 23, 2023

She played a new single, “Alone,” that had some jazzy, jagged percussion and Björk-worthy vocal quivers, showing she’s getting only more ambitious with time.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2023

Hanging their quivers and bows on a branch, she moved off through the ferns.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver