Example sentences for: quiver

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

  • Did Morris have documentation for a snake-like quiver rushing through the crowd, or for its foot-shuffling?

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • I miss the translator's search for the quiver and the nightingale!

  • Perhaps the translation comes from some very important commentator but it hardly creates a “sublime” image and surely does not achieve the quiver mentioned in John Brough's translation of the Sanskrit poem:


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