Example sentences for: shudder

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

  • I was allowed to waveAway the tray of nougat--or rather, the flies on it.Sipping, I waited for a word, a sign from the saint.I'd wanted to lie, as if underground, and watch Him dig up the sky, or stand at a riverbankAnd have the water sweep off my presumptions,Have him blow light into my changeling bones.I wanted to feel the stalk rise and the blade fall.I wanted my life's arithmetic glazed and fired.I wanted the hush, the wingstroke, the shudder.

  • 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."

  • I shudder to think what a future archaeologist might make of those or of GOD!

  • 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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