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Example sentences for "shuddering"

Lexicographically close words:
shuckings; shucks; shud; shudder; shuddered; shudderingly; shudderings; shudders; shude; shue
  1. In torrents away from the airy lakes, Heavily poured on the shuddering ground, And shedding a nameless horror round.

  2. Shuddering I look On what is written, yet I blot not out The desultory numbers; let them stand, The record of an idle revery.

  3. Returning across the Vieux Port in the bateau mouche, Monsieur Peloux no longer shuddered in dread of crime to be committed--his shuddering was for accomplished crime.

  4. It was while crossing in the ferryboat that a sudden shuddering beset him: as he perceived with horror--but without repentance--the pit into which he descended.

  5. At this terrible sentence, a shuddering cry broke from the women.

  6. The yellow folds of the flag fluttered back in silken, shuddering waves as if it were a reluctant thing.

  7. Of the length of time that passed before, spent with fatigue and shuddering in every limb, she paused suddenly before a fallen tree that blockaded the road, I can form no idea.

  8. The sky was covered with flying scud; and, as this was ragged, there was quite a wild chase of shadow and moon-glimpse over the surface of the shuddering water.

  9. Let there be an end of this shy, proud reserve on the one hand, and this shuddering fine ladyism on the other; and we think we shall find both ourselves and the College bettered.

  10. Is there in any language a word that can raise so many shuddering sensations as "La Morgue?

  11. Was it the power of song and of prayer that worked in her, or was she shuddering at the cold morning twilight that was approaching?

  12. I knew it, and a shuddering came upon me.

  13. All night long their little ship was filled with the hum of the shuddering masts, broken now and again with the creaking and jerking of their rusty cable.

  14. Then, shuddering and trembling, the ship slowly righted herself and Wulfrey breathed again.

  15. A Voice reproves me thereupon, More sweet than Nature's, when the drone Of bees is sweetest, and more deep Than when the rivers overleap The shuddering pines, and thunder on.

  16. There was a ringing in his ears, there was a long shuddering sensation, like being overwhelmed.

  17. He felt the sensitive nerves in the arm he held, quiver with a shuddering pain.

  18. Adam, turning round at last, and shuddering as he now clearly recognized the friar, and recalled his malignity.

  19. It was a shuddering gasp of consternation from the bow that brought them back again.

  20. I exclaimed incredulously, shuddering at the horror of a cold-blooded cruelty that even Allen's deliberately matter-of-fact recital could not obscure.

  21. The big fellow took a long shuddering breath, and when he spoke it was as though he had rallied himself from a spell of faintness by sheer force of will.

  22. He does not stare upon the air Through a little roof of glass: He does not pray with lips of clay For his agony to pass; Nor feel upon his shuddering cheek The kiss of Caiaphas.

  23. The great storehouses were now below him, and he could see the shuddering inky masses of smoke blotting out quarter after quarter.

  24. He sat outside on the portico, listening to the passage of feet about Allen in a high shuddering protest.

  25. The harmony wavered and sank, and out of the shuddering silence that followed Lemuel Doret turned again from the city.

  26. He was still shuddering at the recollection of it, the poor fellow!

  27. I was bowing to him, blushing and embarrassed, when, noticing me, he stopped short, shuddering from head to foot.

  28. Or think of the feeble miserables who never know what a day's health means--crowding into Davos or shuddering on the Riviera!

  29. Mr. Wiggett," replied Molly, and fell into such a fit of shuddering that the Bonnie Lassie forebore to question her further concerning the transaction.

  30. At the mere mention of his name she fell into a cold and shuddering silence.

  31. In some alarm, Lilly placed her hand on the shorn head, shuddering in spite of herself as if the ends were bleeding.

  32. In the third act, when a half-crazed victim of the third degree is led out in shuddering and horrible invocation, she sprang to her feet for an instant, her gesture decrying its fullest arc.

  33. More than once she lifted her hands to her mouth, and even then little shuddering murmurs broke from her.

  34. A dozen times a day the memory of that night when she had believed that he would die sent her shuddering to her knees with fresh prayers and promises.

  35. For a moment he lay limp and inert; then one shuddering spasm passed over him and he lay silent and still, with his face half buried in the sand.

  36. He stood rooted for he knew not how long, staring down at the dead face with twitching fingers and shuddering limbs.

  37. This accounts for the shuddering attitude of the English to such platitude-monging foreigners as George Bernard Shaw, the Scotsman disguised as an Irishman, and G.

  38. Around scores of elementary platitudes there hangs a shuddering silence as complete as that which hedges in the sacred name of a Polynesian chief.

  39. But there was one who sat bowed, collapsed, shuddering in his seat, who recognized that voice, and knew what those awful words meant; and that one was Earl De Courcy.

  40. Pet, with her dark eyes fixed on the floor, was uneasily wondering whether she had killed the man she had shot at, and shuddering to think what a dreadful thing it was to shed blood, even in self-defense.

  41. Still she waited in that shuddering suspense, with every nerve so tightly strung, that voice or footfall vibrated on them into pain.

  42. With a shuddering sob he held his own out as if to clasp her, saying, "May I, Ross?


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shuddering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abomination; ague; allergy; antagonism; antipathy; aspen; aversion; chorea; disgust; enmity; hate; hatred; horror; hostility; jactitation; loathing; nausea; palsied; palsy; quaking; quavering; quivering; repugnance; repulsion; shake; shakes; shaking; shaky; shivering; shivery; shuddering; spasm; thrill; timorous; trembling; tremulous; vibrating; vibration; wobbly