Example sentences for: shivered

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

  • To illustrate differences among types of information, we might base the conclusion that "the day was hot" on data from an instrument that records the room temperature (numerical and objective), a record of the atmospheric temperature as written down by an observer checking a thermometer (numerical and relatively nonsubjective), a survey asking people how hot they felt (nonnumerical and subjective), and a "thick" description of what clothes people were wearing, how much they perspired or shivered, whether they turned up the furnace or the air conditioner, and how much energy they seemed to have for work (nonnumerical and judgmental).

  • By noting that both women shivered in the unfamiliar 16 degree cold as they got off the plane, was the NYT pointing to the fact that Elian has been removed from his native (temperate) country to suggest that perhaps he ought to be returned there?


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