Example sentences for: shudder

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

  • 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.

  • 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."

  • In fact, we shudder to think of all that our young Slovakian friends might have missed without the Enquirer this month, from the detailed story of the wedding of a woman missing the entire lower half of her body (she walked up the aisle on her hands, with the garter concealed under her sleeve) to the assertion that Al Gore may be more electable than George W. Bush because of his strong jaw and cheekbones.

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

  • 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."


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