Example sentences for: shiver

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

  • 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.

  • With an unleashed passion that took her breath away, he suddenly grabbed, through her sheer dress, the firm yet pliant flesh of her buttocks, causing Monica to shiver with excitement, and then urgently kissed her, his tongue teasing hers, Lewinsky stated to the grand jury.

  • 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 grueling monotony is broken only at night, when the students go into their tents and the sounds come again and the very celluloid seems to shiver with cold and fear.

  • 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."


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