shudder

Example Sentences

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The floor rumbled underneath me as the very walls around us shuddered and creaked, sending torrents of rock dust down onto millions of dollars’ worth of equipment.

From Literature

“The poor dear. The damage that those weeds must be doing to her follicles, I shudder to think.”

From Literature

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

My entire body shuddered from the cold water, and she helped me out after only 30 seconds.

From Los Angeles Times

So, too, is the film’s music, composer Anthony Willis and soundtrack artist Charlie XCX entwining raspy strings with grimy, ominous shudders.

From Los Angeles Times