Example sentences for: shiver

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

  • A staircase creak in a dark old house makes him shiver.

  • The shiver is accompanied by a murmur: "The President's on his way downstairs."

  • A shiver of excitement strikes the line of people waiting four-breast outside Theodore Roosevelt's front gate, and runs in serpentine reflex along Pennsylvania Avenue as far as Seventeenth Street, before whipping south and dissipating itself over half a mile a way.

  • The movie, about a man who's unaware that his whole life is televised, leaves "the viewer with a spectral feeling that somehow warms: the shiver of radiance."

  • You've seen this sort of picture before: People get drunk and drag skeletons out of closets, and the tension between the formal dinner party rituals and the truths that simmer beneath the surface give way to a Walpurgisnacht . The anti-patriarchal content is fairly routine, but you should see the movie anyway because the director, Thomas Vinterberg, is a great, hypersensitive filmmaker whose edgy, grainy, caught-on-the-fly camerawork seems to make the very celluloid shiver with rage.


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