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

Iang's face quivers as she recounts the story of what happened on 26 November in K-Haimual, her village in Myanmar's western Chin State, and then she breaks down.

From BBC • Dec. 21, 2025

On a recent evening, Karuk men and boys gathered by the Klamath wearing traditional regalia and holding spears, bows and quivers made of animal skins and filled with willow branches.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2024

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

Raesa and Tulan, like Pol, had quivers strapped to their backs and hunting knives at their waists; they carried their bows and moved with a stealth that Kaede knew she could not match.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo