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