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Example sentences for "shivered"

Lexicographically close words:
shite; shitten; shittim; shivaree; shiver; shivering; shiveringly; shiverings; shivers; shivery
  1. This time they saw it, for the Laocoon's helm was put down, her great sails shivered and threshed, and she stood off on the other tack.

  2. To me it seemed bitterly cold outside the inn, I shivered till my teeth chattered.

  3. He dreaded the power of the Church of Rome; he shivered as he thought of the terrors of England's laws against traitors.

  4. The little company in the tavern parlour shivered with affright, and cast uneasy glances at the doorway.

  5. I now shivered and shuddered at the thought of bed-time, and would have done anything to avoid it.

  6. Along the gutters the leaves whispered and ran and shivered and leaped, while the gas-jets flapped in pale lamps.

  7. Jenny and May, however, could hardly refrain from shrieking out in terror as they shivered by these furtive, crouching shapes whose gaze was concentrated on things not seen by them.

  8. The eight of them shivered at the thought.

  9. For all the sunlight of St. Valentine, the snowdrops looked like very foolish virgins as they shivered in the wind about the blackened grass, good sport for idle sparrows.

  10. He shivered from an odd sensation, not like either cold or heat, that passed up his spinal column and into his neck.

  11. At the top she turned; shivered in the warm spring air; lifting hand to brow, again strained her gaze up the Avenue.

  12. And Garain still shivered at the thought of his former colleague.

  13. Statues of nymphs shivered in the damp shade studded with pale lights.

  14. She shivered to think that once--thank God, only once!

  15. Caddie Sills sank across a thwart and shivered a little to mark the crowding together of white horses at the very place where she had stood.

  16. Women whom the sea had widowed shivered and rattled irons when the Old Roke came close to their windows; but the men listened, as if they had been called--each by his own name.

  17. They shivered when he came near, and ran off to get into the sunshine; so he was used to seeing visitors pass by the fine grounds of his castle with only a scared glance or two in that direction, and he wished it to be so.

  18. The sweet heaven-bird shivered out his song above him.

  19. She shivered inwardly and outwardly--and she said perpetually, "When will the night be gone?

  20. A mere shred of a man, with a shrinking, attenuated frame: the frame of one who has lived in some long agony, bodily or mental: and a white face that shivered as he stood.

  21. Heinzman began to blubber; choked, shivered all over, and cried aloud with an expression of the greatest agony: "You must dake me somewheres.

  22. This public washing was one of the many drawbacks to public charity which Garrison shivered at.

  23. He shivered through sheer nervous exhaustion, though the night was warm for mid-April.

  24. The sprinkler proved to be powerful; the water that penetrated beneath the edge of the slate shivered it into small bits.

  25. Smilingly he opened his eyes and--shivered with fright.

  26. These flames sought one another and when they found one another they blazed up convulsively into a larger flame, then fled dancingly away and shivered into pieces.

  27. Her hand went to her throat; her breath refused to come; she shivered so violently that she was afraid she would fall to the ground.

  28. There was a partial dispersing of the crowd, but many a poor fellow shivered in that pelting rain the night long.

  29. Greek-fire has shivered the statue of John C.

  30. Her head drooped on her breast; tears rolled silently down her checks; her arms fell to her sides; she shivered again and sighed.

  31. She shivered where she sat on the damp straw which they had cast upon the stones; and strange noises sang in her ears, and strange lights glimmered and flashed before her eyes.

  32. Folle-Farine shivered where she crouched in the shadow of the doorway; she still said nothing.

  33. He looked up at her as he worked, the shivered flints flying right and left.

  34. She shivered and gasped, and strove to totter on: the children were alone.

  35. All the light died; the moon rose; the white lilies shivered in its pallid rays; the night-birds went by on the wind.

  36. Now I begin to see," and she shivered all over.

  37. Great solid masses of cloud were banking up beyond the further ridge of the Tugela valley, and a low boom of thunder shivered the still air.

  38. Now as she thought of it a hot wave shivered through all her body, and tingled to her hair.

  39. Then a soft little cry broke from her, and she shivered slightly.

  40. She shivered a little, but quickly regained her self-control and cheerfulness.

  41. She shivered a little at his words, but she would not permit herself to think, determined to have her old carelessness, her old peace back, if she could grasp it.

  42. There shall be no more of it, Elsie," she said, after a long silence, during which Elsie had shivered herself quiet once more.

  43. These notes were cold as ice, and the young wife always shivered with dread when she opened them.

  44. The moon shivered out again for an instant, and Mr. Mellen saw a woman shrouded in a long cloak rushing towards the house.

  45. She grew cold, and her poor hands shivered as she drew on her gauntlet gloves, and tied the veil over her hat.

  46. Don't talk in that dreadful voice," shivered Elsie; "it sounds as if you were dying.

  47. Elsie shivered down among her cushions and was silent.

  48. The pike was shivered in pieces against the ground, and the rest of the officers, seeing their comrade assaulted, raised a shout, calling for help for the Holy Brotherhood.

  49. It was not cold, but Ben shivered and drew his poor coat about him.

  50. Again we tramped it all night long, though it was awful cold and I shivered and almost froze every time we stopped to rest.

  51. She shivered at the mere remembrance that only the night before he had held her hand and touched it with his lips.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shivered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.