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Example sentences for "shudder"

Lexicographically close words:
shucked; shucking; shuckings; shucks; shud; shuddered; shuddering; shudderingly; shudderings; shudders
  1. After high emotions, as after high seas, the appetite is capricious, shrinking to the shudder of repulsion or rising to whetted keenness.

  2. She was glad in the third movement, her mind in its knotted concentration catching but one passage, and that given with a new rendering, to emphasize her displeasure by a little shudder and frown.

  3. As to the man, he answered Lina's with another horrible howl, forced from him by the convulsive shudder of every muscle of his body, then reeled gasping to and fro, and dropped his candle.

  4. One shudder went from head to foot, and next instant she stepped to meet her.

  5. The beasts their cowering tails with trembling fold, And shrink and shudder at the gusty cold; Thick is the hairy coat, the shaggy skin, But that all-chilling breath shall pierce within.

  6. With a shudder she crept down in the bed and hid her face, hating herself, loathing herself, wishing herself dead.

  7. He turned again to his fishing, but his shrug was more of a shudder than appeared to be complimentary to Percy Draymore.

  8. If he shudder once again, or frown, I die!

  9. I shudder at the fatality that seems to haunt your footsteps, and throws a shadow of crime about your path, you being guiltless.

  10. You shudder at me, I perceive," said Miriam, suddenly interrupting her narrative.

  11. I shudder when I think how helpless I should have been without you.

  12. After a moment of indecision, she turned with a shudder and walked toward the house, dragging the rifle by the stock.

  13. He did not put it to these words, but the shudder that is in the thought for all of us, seized him.

  14. Marcella alone saw the slight, mysterious smile, the gradual sinking of the lids, the shudder of departing life that ran through the limbs.

  15. She could not speak; only point upward and shudder as does one with heavy chills.

  16. A shudder went through him at sight of the steel.

  17. Norman recognized one with a shudder and one with surprise.

  18. And therefore many a parent who would shudder to use rack or thumb-screw to our children, think nothing of whipping them.

  19. At her father's name a slight shudder ran over the young lady's person, and her eyes became dimmed with tears.

  20. But the nucleus of the destroyer was now upon us;--even here in Aidenn I shudder while I speak.

  21. Jim Wilson must have sustained a sick shudder as he replied.

  22. Beasley, and there was a barely distinguishable shudder of his muscular frame.

  23. One ball after another passed over as he approached and he felt a nervous shudder run down his spine.

  24. Pierre to himself, and an involuntary shudder ran down his spine.

  25. Russia will shudder to learn of the abandonment of the city in which her greatness is centered and in which lie the ashes of your ancestors!

  26. On seeing Rostov, Denisov screwed up his face and pointing over his shoulder with his thumb to the room where Telyanin was sitting, he frowned and gave a shudder of disgust.

  27. They did not weep or shudder and during these last days they themselves felt that they were not attending on him (he was no longer there, he had left them) but on what reminded them most closely of him--his body.

  28. Ann bit her lip; a shudder passed over her strong frame from head to foot.

  29. Now and then, as she trudged along, kicking up the back part of her heavy linsey skirt in her sturdy strides, a shudder would pass over her and a weighty sigh of indecision escape her big chest.

  30. He looked down into the blackness with a shudder and said.

  31. An ancestral shudder from the Steppes came over me.

  32. A shudder shook her frame, and gazing down into the countenance of the young girl lying at her feet, she broke into moans of such fathomless despair as wrung the hearts of all about her.

  33. Mr. Travis gave a quick shudder and that was all.

  34. Both are quiet save for an occasional shudder which shakes the bed of the latter.

  35. I shudder even now, as I remember the fearful rush of waters around us when our craft was cut loose from the sinking vessel.

  36. These questions were so coldly put--so rudely forced upon him, that he could only answer by an inward shudder of repulsion.

  37. At this period, she was under the reaction of a great excitement, and turned with a nervous shudder from anything calculated to remind her of all the pain which lay in the past.

  38. Her face hardened and grew white, as the secret burst from her lips; for she saw the shudder and heard the shriek that broke from her child.

  39. A shudder ran through her frame, and she sat down upon a neighboring divan, gasping for breath.

  40. Yet I shudder every time I think of it, and twice, when I have dreamed that I was his wife, I have waked the whole house with my screams to be saved from him.

  41. And when she lay dead, the young King remembered what he had promised, and it made him shudder to think of lying in her grave alive, but there was no escape.

  42. He looked at her in horror, and a shudder ran over him.

  43. It makes me shudder to think of it now, and that was not all.

  44. He cried, looking up with a shudder for all his tears, “What about that negative you smashed?

  45. Pocket hardly knew what made him shudder at the proposition.

  46. They traveled like a shudder about her body, and suddenly she was pressed close to him.

  47. A bit of sanity was returning to her; comprehension of her position sent a shudder through her.

  48. I should have welcomed that, rather than the inward loathing, like a shudder of the soul, at something inhuman and unclean.

  49. For some reason or other the place affected me most unpleasantly, and it was with a little shudder that I retreated and skirted the fence which guarded the dangerous part of the cliff.

  50. I shudder to think what the effect upon him would be were he to hear himself referred to as a boarder.

  51. He stopped, and a shudder passed over him.


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