shudder
Definition:
1. To shake because you are cold or frightened, or because of a strong feeling.
2. To shake very hard.
Use 'shudder' in a sentence:
- 1. At the entrance of the parlour the youth again said quite loudly, "If I could but shudder!"
- 2. How his name would fill the world, and make people shudder!
- 3. I do so wish I could shudder, but no one can teach me how.
- 4. They are always saying: "It makes me shudder, it makes me shudder!"
- 5. The third night he sat down again on his bench and said quite sadly, "If I could but shudder."
- 6. What makes me shudder so, dear wife?
- 7. I shudder to think how much this is all going to cost.
- 8. We all shudder at the thought of the dreadful dirty place.
- 9. His hand closed upon the knife; he raised it, glanced at it, and let it fall, with a shudder.
- 10. A shudder passed through Peter, and he sat on the floor and cried.
- 11. A decision by the Finns to float their currency sent a shudder through the foreign exchanges.
- 12. Natalie shuddered. "I don't know. it's a godforsaken place, briny."
- 13. "It does not make me shudder," thought he.
- 14. She gave an involuntary shudder.
- 15. Then he woke up and cried, "Oh, what makes me shudder so?"
- 16. Elaine shuddered with cold.
- 17. I shuddered when I heard the gory details.
- 18. She drew a deep shuddering breath.
- 19. I still shudder when I look back on the past.
- 20. He slammed on the brakes and the car shuddered to a halt.
- 21. It gave someone gooseflesh and he shuddered all over.
- 22. I shuddered at the sight of the dead body.
- 23. "That is all very well," said he, "but still I do not know what it is to shudder!"
- 24. I shudder to think what would have happened if he hadn't acted as quickly as he did.
- 25. Sit down beneath it, and wait till night comes, and you will soon learn how to shudder.
- 26. Have you learnt how to shudder yet?
- 27. As for me, I shudder at the cost of a new vehicle.
- 28. If I did but know what it was to shudder!
- 29. If I could but shudder!
- 30. "You wretch," cried he, "you shall soon learn what it is to shudder, for you shall die."
- 31. Presently, Huckleberry whispered with a shudder, "It's the devils sure enough."
- 32. A few steps brought them to the spring, and Tom felt a shudder quiver all through him.
- 33. But the car had begun to shudder and was losing speed.
- 34. The word still causes a shudder among some of my students.
- 35. "I cannot manage to shudder," said he.
- 36. The next crisis sent a shudder of fear through the UN community.
- 37. A shudder shook the boy's frame, and his face blenched.
- 38. Now I know what it is to shudder!
- 39. Lloyd had urged her to eat caviar. She had shuddered at the thought.
- 40. It gives me the shudders. ((
- 41. The train began to pull out of the station — then suddenly shuddered to a halt.
- 42. The spade strikes something hard, sending a shudder through his spine.
- 43. The sight of the coffin sent a shudder through him.
- 44. With the gloom of the contraltos added, one could scarcely help shuddering.
- 45. The whole ship shuddered and trembled at the sudden strain.
- 46. In his "Phaedrus", Plato describes a man, who after beholding a beautiful youth, begins to spin, shudder, shiver and sweat.
- 47. There was a blinding flash and the whole building shuddered.
- 48. She gave a violent shudder.
- 49. She gave a dramatic shudder of repulsion.
- 50. The whole car shuddered with an almost frightening surge of power.
- 51. Alone in the car, she shuddered with fear.
- 52. Just thinking about the accident makes me shudder.
- 53. Another surge of pain in my ankle caused me to give an involuntary shudder.
- 54. The elevator rose with a shudder.