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Example sentences for "shivery"

Lexicographically close words:
shivered; shivering; shiveringly; shiverings; shivers; shives; shkin; shleep; shlip; shly
  1. Then the voice of the minister brought me back, I found myself sitting here in church and went on with this less shivery thinking.

  2. For you found that through a hole in the ivy you could see a shivery distance straight down through the air to a street below.

  3. Not more shivery was that wretched man than Lady Isabel, as she walked by her side.

  4. In the shivery midnight blast; And 'tis dreary enough alone to bide, Hungry and cold, On the wintry wold, Where the drifting snow falls fast.

  5. There was a pleasant, shivery chill in the air.

  6. There was something shivery about its low-lying-heavy outline, with nothing visible beyond the border of thick willow growth.

  7. Both boys had a shivery feeling of being watched, but no sign was apparent as they floated in behind the point of the island and noiselessly beached the boat.

  8. Lord, how cold and shivery the mermaids must feel down there in those chilly, silent pools .

  9. How big her rooms looked, what a shivery feeling the card-tables gave her, with the markers, with the cards spread out in an S!

  10. Through the shivery morning air, every time a patron entered or left the place, a cloud of greasy, spicy aromas came wafting to the frozen little troupe leaving their dreary abiding place.

  11. The mere suggestion of it was shivery and I remarked to Bill that our attic, no matter how humble, was preferable to a sojourn at Sing-Sing.

  12. Mittyford waiting in awesome fur coat, goggles, and gauntlets, centered in the car-lamplight that loomed in the shivery evening fog.

  13. Sidney felt shivery cold all over and hot at the same moment.

  14. In search of cousins she now scanned these carefully, with a shivery feeling of prowling over dead bones--the writing was so queer and faded, the paper crackled and smelled so old.

  15. He may not see it again,' Mr. Bigge said, and I understood and felt shivery all over.

  16. She said much less than Miss Horne, who walked in and out of the shivery furniture, fanning herself in her agitation and declaiming against Mr. Dorward at the top of her voice.

  17. You see, I have been forgetting our sunsets, and I have been shivery and shaky when I should have faced my Big Black Bear!

  18. Anne had a little shivery feeling as she watched the girls go out into the hall and come back blushing.

  19. I came home an hour ago, and since then I have been sitting all shivery and shaky in my pink silk.

  20. Sad change, indeed, but we occasionally got some fun out of the nipping, shivery work from hungry prairie chickens, and squirrels and mice that came about us.

  21. Crabs and lobsters are so fortunate as to be able to shed their limbs when caught or merely frightened, apparently without suffering any pain, simply by giving themselves a little shivery shake.

  22. One of the shivery feelings which Carl supposed to be a "hunch" had been on him ever since they had started from the balloon house.

  23. The shivery feeling still held him in its grip, and he was looking for something else to strike Matt, and Ferral, and himself.

  24. My men felt cold and shivery and quite miserable in the choppy waters, which made them extremely ill.

  25. We felt cold and shivery and not particularly happy after the experience of the previous night.

  26. Commonly, people who do not get out much during the day are shivery and {666} suffer from cold, especially in the winter time, and so they are likely to keep their rooms rather tightly closed.

  27. It is too cold for them; they are shivery and become depressed.

  28. Cold and shivery on the way home from work in the early morning, they take a nip of whiskey to brace them up.

  29. And there is always a creepy, shivery feeling about here; the rest of the place is so open and bright.

  30. With a half-contemptuous smile at herself, she drew down the window, and in a very few moments was safely ensconced in bed, though somewhat shivery still.

  31. You know, Judy, I’ve missed most of your shivery adventures.

  32. Judy knew he was remembering another equally shivery adventure in a ruined castle.

  33. It gave her a shivery feeling of excitement.

  34. It was a cloudy, moist, showery day, when I arrived; and this fire gave me the brightest and most hospitable smile, and took away any shivery feeling by its mere presence.

  35. Since I have been in Liverpool we have hardly had a day, until yesterday, without more or less of rain, and so cold and shivery that life was miserable.

  36. When Gaupa hung up his coffee-kettle over the fire he felt shivery after his cold bed.

  37. For it was cold and shivery that night, ever so cold.

  38. And then, at that instant of shivery doubt, Dolores smiled at them; and in that same instant three men, with immortal souls, forgot everything of the world and affairs in the mad intoxication of her charm.

  39. Then Dolores spoke, slowly, quietly, almost soothingly; and those of her hardened ruffians who thought they knew her best hung on her words in shivery uncertainty.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shivery" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    agitated; aspen; bashful; brittle; chilly; cold; cool; cowardly; crisp; crumbly; delicate; diffident; fearful; fearsome; fidgety; fissile; flimsy; fluttery; fragile; frail; freezing; friable; frosty; frozen; icy; jumpy; nervous; nippy; palsied; quaking; quavering; quivering; scary; shaking; shaky; shivering; shivery; shrinking; shuddering; shy; skittish; timid; timorous; trembling; tremulous; twitchy; vibrating; vulnerable; wobbly