shivering

Example Sentences

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We weren’t really sure about that, but Barbare hadn’t said anything about slivering them.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019

I would undoubtedly spend most of the time in the kitchen slivering the very first of the season’s green garlic and maybe topping and tailing green beans to toss with almonds and zhoug.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2018

In "The Tempest" he plays Trinculo, whom the actor describes as a "slivering castaway jester" in Taymor's gender-bending version of Shakespeare's original.

From Reuters • Dec. 8, 2010

The bubbles gleamed, slivering the sun like prisms.

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate

The dragging lines Ma had thought were from Minli’s walking stick led to his cart, and the bowls of goldfish caught the sifting beams from the sun, slivering it into flashing sparkles of light.

From "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin