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.

  • The "E word" may not crop up much, but that doesn't mean people shudder at the concept, as Miss Manners claims.

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

  • 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."

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


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