Example sentences for: quiver

How can you use “quiver” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It is no criticism of Solomon's lively and fascinating book that she has not sought to explain how an array of the most ordinary objects--a cordial glass, a bubble pipe, an egg, some glass disks, a map--should release powers of evocation in one another and quiver into an image that overcomes the personal and the biographical to attain universality, profundity, beauty, and truth.

  • When I read the psalm what I want is that quiver in my heart.

  • Failing a real hardwood blowpipe, you can buy the handsome quiver of stout rattan-bound bamboo with the poison darts (minus the poison), both authentic, and a shorter pipe of bamboo that does a perfectly serviceable job of blowing darts into your cork dartboard at home.

  • Perhaps it is because I am just one of the “ordinary readers with no special knowledge of the ancient East” [New English Bible, 1970] that I want more than anything else “a quiver in my heart” when I read the 23rd Psalm and confess to being rather shocked to find that “the Lord” is no longer my shepherd.

  • For my quiver I prefer doing with thou and thee!


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