shudder
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An omen among omens: Mid-dog-walk that day, I spot a onesie that reads “Milk Drunk” and shudder at the impulse to recruit our newborns into low-key bacchanalia.
From Slate ● May 10, 2026
A 1970s-style outcome, or anything close to it, would have been enough to make anyone shudder — but especially retirees and others living on fixed or semi-fixed incomes.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 8, 2026
Nurse Angela explains away the smell—“Oh, that’s just ether”—but readers familiar with the earlier novel featuring Dr. Larch might shudder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
My face would scrunch up and I’d shudder from the intense flavors, but I never cried.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2025
So she sat there, wiping her tears with a Kleenex and watching her son shudder with grief in the middle of the waiting room floor.
From "Forged by Fire" by Sharon M. Draper
Each song shudders with youthful cockiness and desperation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
Then, he satirizes conservatives’ discomfort with his Blackness by sitting silently as Martin Short, playing a nervous young Republican delivering a hackneyed diatribe, shudders in his presence before scampering offstage to fall apart.
From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2026
Wayne says he shudders to think what would have happened without people like Jessica and Ahmed.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2025
One shudders to think what Border Patrol sector chief Gregory Bovino thinks is excessive for la migra.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025
David slumps over, and then his body shudders, and shudders again.
From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth
Our Waymo shuddered to a stop, and we jumped out in the middle of the street.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Soon after, Hipolito’s legs shuddered and buckled and his body began to shake violently.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026
Despite all the times I shuddered at the trailer tagline, “Believe in the Hail Mary,” over the last year, I really do.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026
"Now I'm afraid of the river," he shuddered.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2025
I shuddered, thinking of those beings from the other world.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
In 2008, the shuddering global economy and soaring fuel prices helped push several airlines into bankruptcy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
“They think we’re these evil business owners,” she said, shuddering.
From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2026
Stunned captain Alyssa Healy says Australia let themselves down after their reign as one-day world champions was brought to a shuddering halt by hosts India.
From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2025
Even before the red, it looked likely that Martin's period of calm after Saturday's League Cup win over Hibernian was about to come to a shuddering and noisy end.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025
He takes a deep, shuddering breath, and sighs.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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