Example sentences for: shudder

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

  • It concluded, "Perhaps even Monica, watching him from afar, felt a last shudder of tenderness and regret for her ex-lover, so important and so alone."

  • Toward the end of the film, as Pitt's Harrer contemplates the takeover of Tibet by the intolerant, totalitarian Chinese, he says in a voice-over, "I shudder to recall how once, long ago, I embraced the same beliefs."

  • Almost all the scenes she writes and stages are blandly generalized--a homogeneity that seems part commercial cunning (her movies go down easy, like Muzak) and part the result of being rich and snobbishly insulated on the Upper West Side of New York City, that magic kingdom where people parade their liberalism but the word "Brooklyn" is always good for a laugh and a shudder.

  • It's easy to imagine Dick Armey and Trent Lott nudging each other with told-you-so glee, or Gore and Gephardt averting their eyes with a shudder.

  • "I shudder at the idea they will leave this haven.


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