How To Use Shiver In A Sentence

By the time harmony was a few centuries old, it began to shiver and shake from them.
Magical moments that will send shivers down your spine. Times, Sunday Times
As she was starting to shiver, he gallantly wrapped his cloak around her shoulder.
I shivered suddenly, and then shook as with an ague and spent the rest of the night sitting up before the. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
Shivering he slowed his breathing and closed his mind, retreating within himself in one of the meditation rituals.

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As a fellow pantzer, I find that it usually takes me at least three drafts before I'm reasonably happy with a story -- the first is my "crapola" discover the story draft, the second is aimed at what readers would want, the third to polish and ((shiver)) copy-edit. An Interview with Allison Brennan
My whole body is shivering. Times, Sunday Times
A kind of shiver ran through the country last week as the coffin was dug up. A Daughter Denied?
The words spoke truth; shivered up and down inside her, earthing right down to the OK Corral.
Several other reporters and cameramen stood shivering in unseasonably cold temperatures, ready to capture the multi-vehicle arrival Superdelegate deluge
Okay, so the missionary position doesn't always make your mate shiver with desire.
Through the dense trees I could see purple bougainvillea shivering against the stucco of the hacienda-style buildings. SILENT JOE
I sat on the bed shivering, straining to hear their conversation, but they were too far down the hall and speaking too softly anyway.
Just mentioning the name sends a curious shiver through our household. Times, Sunday Times
He had asked to wear thick underclothes under his shirt as he was very concerned that if he shivered in the cold, the crowd might think that he was scared.
The Prince of Wales shivered in the chill of an unheated theatre yesterday as he launched a campaign to help one million children to become involved in the arts over the next five years.
The Octopus Back Massager will send shivers down his spine.
Rob shivered a little, cold and uncomfortable lying on the firm, hard ground.
Ignoring the shivery thrill that raced down her spine, she hurriedly obeyed. ON A WICKED DAWN
She felt an involuntary shiver go through her.
Those produced in brass, anodized aluminum or galvanized iron impart a golden glow or a silvery shiver.
She is not the woman for whose be-dazzlement I must advertise the value of my goods by sweating sonnets to her, or shivering serenades at her, or perpetuating follies for her. The Kempton-Wace Letters
Ruth deposited her wet mackintosh on the floor and went upstairs, shivering every now and then.
So far, however, it does not appear to have hurt the company or reduced shareholders to fits of cold shivers.
There was a kind of shiver, and Trace heard something go chink on the floor near his boot. Archive 2006-08-01
He also describes cold shivering, increased muscle tension, and a delicious taste, and he swallows repeatedly.
Autumn shivered as she stepped from a streetcar, pulled up the collar on her coat and walked briskly towards the Doghouse. ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
His dark-gold hair, damp and draggled, hung into his eyes, which were dilated and sunk into violet pools; his blank beautiful face was grey and sweating, his entire frame racked with shivering.
A chill shiver rippled over his skin.
The setting sun set the haze aglow like icy blood, and Rupert gave a shiver.
In spite of the hotel's extravagant overheating, she shivered. THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
Over to the left I saw an unhappy little urchin, hardly a rag covering his shivering, bleeding body, grovelling piteously in the snow, while his blind and goitrous mother did her best at gathering firewood with a hatchet. Across China on Foot
If not for you, I must be shivering in the despair and fear, groaning painfully. But for you, every day I will dream the most beautiful apart. Becoz u use your whole life to love me, and I feel free. My life seems to leave me like the sand flowing. I can hear that, but I can still smile only as long as I see you sleeping by my side.
Then a breeze shivered among the tops of the apple-trees, and the sered leaves were blown from the branches. Esther Waters
Heath Ledger, this opinion not being bias towards his death, changed his acting style overnight to do something incredible in molding the Joker into something you feared and shivered at every time you saw him in a scene. Sound Off: The Dark Knight - What Did You Think?! « FirstShowing.net
Outside the Waldorf-Astoria, demonstrators and cops shivered in a cold, persistent drizzle; inside, delegates sweltered in the over-heating that seems to tempt every hotel manager.
Angus thought everyone looked so chilly that he shivered in sympathy and took a swallow from his flask.
When a patrol boat got the hungry and shivering dog, they found no identification on her other than a brown collar.
His thumbs stroked my hip bones as I folded my arms up by my side and shivered.
‘I feel bad, like I guilted you into buying me stuff,’ he sighed, moving his hand from her hip to her back which he gently rubbed, sending little shivers up her spine.
I was just starting to wrestle out of my oversized shirt, shivering slightly in the cold bathroom, when a heard a faint knocking on the main door.
It was a sad day for him when, after a couple of months 'snug lying, he had to betake himself to his attic under the roof, where he shivered in the coalless city. The Mountebank
Around us, I noticed with a shiver, lay femurs and tibiae, ﬁ nger bones and ribs. Going Coastal
They rose, and the scrunt of Janet's chair on the floor, when she pushed it behind her, sent a thrilling shiver through her body, so tense was her mood. The House with the Green Shutters
A shiver of excitement ran through him, mixed with with fear.
Bemused onlookers were even more surprised when they saw central bankers dishing out free champagne and hot toddies to their shivering customers.
felt all shivery
As the region shivered in Artic conditions hundreds of passengers at Manchester airport were left stranded after flight were cancelled.
It tasted sweet and bitter on his tongue at the same time and made him shiver slightly, unable to decide if he enjoyed the taste or not.
She swam eastward a dozen strokes and stood shivering on the rocky bottom, waiting for Wolf to surface.
Well the poor mutt ran away howling in pain and agony and he scampered shiveringly to a refuge in a deserted shack.
His cruel and callous comments made me shiver.
But the blending of the two together gives me a little shiver. Times, Sunday Times
He could see something moving there, shaking, and shivering in fear.
The daylight hallucinations of Mr.Darko strike a chord with someone who has drank a skinful the night before and is shivering in the post booze darkness.
Snow slurries were expected to leave the region shivering today, with the promise of raw northerly winds, possibly gale force, blowing into tomorrow.
Charles, "would he say," the thin-blooded wand of forty years ago in a brocaded waistcoat and a pair of dancing-shoes seeking his way through a labyrinth of demoniac trees, shivering half with cold and half with terror like a _forcat_ from the _bagne_ of Doom Castle
She shivered at the thought of going into the dark house alone.
I shiver as I pass the clothes boutiques, where assorted mannequins stare out like different species of plastic aliens.
A shiver of fear ran through his .
This last haunts only the tops of trees in high beechen woods, and makes a sibilous grasshopper-like noise, now and then, at short intervals, shivering a little with its wings when it sings; and is, I make no doubt now, the _regulus non cristatus_ of Ray, which he says "_cantat voce stridula locustae_. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1
It sits there shivering in its damp towel until she comes with urine bottle and tube.
One brown knoll alone breaks the waste, and on it a few leafless wind-clipt oaks stretch their moss-grown arms, like giant hairy spiders, above a desolate pool which crisps and shivers in the biting breeze, while from beside its brink rises a mournful cry, and sweeps down, faint and fitful, amid the howling of the wind. Westward Ho!
While one part of the globe shivers, other regions are basking in the sun. Times, Sunday Times
Chap it, an 'let us up to hell oot o' this," and the bottomer, no less frightened than he, tore at the bell, and jumping in himself just as the cage began slowly to ascend, clung to the bar, shivering with terror. The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner
They were shivering outside in the rain like biblical shepherds, watching their flocks of celebrity sheep get themselves into all kinds of trouble. The Sun
As my gaze lands on them, I feel several small shivers running down my spine.
“I have more to do than to shiver in the Great Hall for every gadling the Puck of Pook’s Hill
‘Hey stranger,’ his voice was husky and I shivered slightly.
Then the Greeks they groaned and quivered, And they knelt, and moaned, and shivered, As the plunging waters met them, And splashed and overset them; And they call in their emergence Upon countless saints and virgins; And their marrowbones are bended, And they think the world is ended. Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
He shivers in brumal blasts, and hungry he chirps before your door. Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales
His muscles under his tan skin rippled, sending shivers up my spine.
They seemed to have made a cowardly retreat and were most likely shivering in fear from the sound of her giant robot's earth-shaking footsteps.
Suddenly, I saw its myriad blades rise erect and shivering.
Turning her head, my mother saw a young girl of about 16 who stood shivering in fear and quaking from emotion.
The way he said her name sent shivers up her spine, reminding her of Italian lessons and the romantic sound of the overture to La Bohème she used to play over and over after Giovanni left and went back to Italy. That’s Amore
His velvety-voiced villainy sent pleasurable shivers up the spine.
Don't stand outside shivering-come inside and get warm!
Eugene felt a shiver travel up his back, along his spine.
She pulled her duster closer around her and shivered at the icy blast of wind Mother Nature sent her way.
The sight sent 'shivers' down his spine, yet he was pulled forward as if hypnotised. Archive 2008-01-01
Don't stand outside shivering-come inside and get warm!
Shiona shivered beneath the bedclothes.
She shivered slightly as a cool breeze stirred beneath her cloak and he hugged her close against his side to share his warmth. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
Anyone who can listen to Mozart's Requiem Mass without getting shivers up the spine is either physically or emotionally dead.
An ambulance crew and firefighters eventually arrived to cut the shivering dad from the vehicle.
He curled into a fetal position, his knees drawn close to his body, and shivered slightly.
I smiled and climbed the ladder into the hay loft, shivering in the refreshingly cool air.
A black dark shivery morning, and Mr Pronsias Reilly was well pleased that Mrs O'Rourke had dressed fast and without complaint. FIELD OF BLOOD
Shivering in the cool of the night, she wrapped her arms around her, running her hands along the goosebumps on her arms.
But in the winter, the damp still creeps through the building and leaves the children shivering with cold.
She gave a little shiver and laughed.
But the blending of the two together gives me a little shiver. Times, Sunday Times
She shivered slightly as a cool breeze stirred beneath her cloak and he hugged her close against his side to share his warmth. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
And unbidden, the memory returned of her involuntary shiver the previous week when checking the room for her guest. THE GOSPEL MAKERS
The word brushed against my hair, and his breath sent shivers across my scalp. The Geek Girl's Guide to Cheerleading
They stood in a shelter at the bus stop and shivered with cold. The Glasgow Girls
We waited, an 'we waited, an' _we waited_, an 'we got skeerder, an' skeerder, an '_skeerder_, an', gee! how we shivered! Humorous Ghost Stories
Her gown was thin, and she shivered, partly from cold.
They were curled up on the bare, frozen earth, rimed in frost, shivering and gasping in obvious anguish.
They hugged table-legs, raced up walls, skulked under shelves and stood shivering in nooks and corners.
When any of these things occur, the body immediately shivers, the person becoming speechless cannot draw his breath, but the breath (pneuma) stops, the brain is contracted, the blood stands still, and thus the excretion and defluxion of the phlegm take place. On The Sacred Disease
More rain and cold wind whipped at him, and he shivered again.
The wood that had been drawn for the fire was green, and it ignited too slowly to satisfy the shivering impatience of women and children; I vented mine in audibly grumbling over the wretched fire, at which I in vain endeavoured to thaw frozen bread, and to dress crying children. Roughing It in the Bush
We were shivering so much that we decided to go upstairs and put very hot water into the bathtub.
Birds, also to some extent like mammals, have involuntary nervous controls to regulate heat; for instance, shivering.
It was a day to make your spirit sink as Dundee shivered in the icy squalls of rain that repeatedly doused its pavements and tenements.
Max was not up in matters pertaining to ghosts in general, and could only make a guess at emitting the proper kind of sound; but really it did seem quite "shivery," even to the boy responsible for making it. The Strange Cabin on Catamount Island
The somnambule shivers and feels cold in her lower limbs, despite the fact that my laboratory is very warm. The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal
Ed's horror shivered and shimmied all around her, like an alien force, but she made herself ignore it. A MEANS TO EVIL
He was dressed in the purple-bordered toga praetexta and preceded by twenty-four lictors shivering in crimson tunics and brass-bossed black leather belts, with the ominous axes inserted in their bundles of rods. Fortune's Favorites
She shivered slightly as a cool breeze stirred beneath her cloak and he hugged her close against his side to share his warmth. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
Feeling the swift, nippy morning winds from inland against my scaly hide, I shivered and took a brief glance at the icicles which had formed on the roofs before turning my head back.
His pulse was weak and feverish, more like a shiver than the pump of his life's blood.
As I dragged myself out from underneath him the door clanged shut with such a final note that I felt a shiver go down my spine.
The rest were made up of unfortunate women of the vilest and most ragged description, aged itinerants, with features seared with famine, bleared eyes, dropping jaws, shivering limbs, and all the mortal signs of hopeless and aidless, and, worst of all, breadless infirmity. Pelham — Complete
My whole body is shivering. Times, Sunday Times
We ducked back into shadow, shivering, and VDU screens and Victorian bracket clocks told us how slowly the hours went by. The Gates of Noon
This brought on a shiver of fear. Times, Sunday Times
That sort of extreme attitude is what has put fear into the minds of New Zealanders, and it is why contemporary claims send a shiver down their spine.
She felt a shiver run down her spine.
Set in the Dust Bowl years (yet slightly futuristic), "Mr. Shivers" lives up to its name - if, that is, you can keep your focus on the novel and ignore the near-Shakespearean prose that overpopulates its pages. Naplesnews.com Stories
In Shiver, a sexy bride and her nebbish hubby go to visit her cousins in their ancestral home.
I shivered as he poured the cool liquid onto my back, and then he began rubbing it in, massaging my back and shoulders.
I shivered in disgust, stomping past them into the hallway.
The patient experienced muscle weakness, tremulousness, ‘hot and cold’ feelings, paresthesias, diaphoresis, shivering, and frontal lobe headache starting 24 hours after discontinuation.
It is cold and she shivers, but the contrast is amazing and she floats in blissed out space on a second lingering orgasm of mind as the sensations finally overwhelm her and she leaves reality behind her for several minutes. Again, from everyone on my f-list, that book meme thingy
His appearance sent a cold shiver down her spine.
At its most terrifying, his writing sends shivers up and down my spine.
The baron, shivering barefooted, pulled out his watch. CHAPTER 24
Anyway, I'm ill at the moment - woke up at 2.30 am yesterday morning with a very scary attack of the shivers.
It was something sudden, and it makes one shiver to think of a strong man with all the strength withered out of him by one glance from the soft eyes of a weak, blond, female creature like Flush of Gold. Flush of Gold
She was shivering with delight and pent-up desire.
This is a shiveringly good read, especially by torch, in a tent. Times, Sunday Times
There is a particular passage in Myth that sends shivers down my spine.
Sometimes things were so pretty, she got all shivery inside. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
The girl shivered in the rain as she took a step back.
sparkling light from the shivering crystals of the chandelier
Her nerve-ends in total chaos, Robbie could hardly believe this was really happening, this shivering delight.
He was obese, and I still shiver at the thought of him. Times, Sunday Times
The importance of William of Norwich to his aunt Liviva is made apparent in corporeal manifestations of the pain she feels: "A cold shiver invaded her innermost marrow, her face grew pale, her mind fled along with her blood, and as if dead she fell from the hands of the bystanders to the ground. A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
My chest sears with pain at your words, sending a cold shiver down my spine.
We moved on, Strickland silent and wrathful, until Fleete was taken with violent shivering fits and sweating.
The fork shivered angrily and then slid across the table, banging Sven's glass.
Just mentioning the name sends a curious shiver through our household. Times, Sunday Times
I was sitting on the floor shivering with fear.
She drapes the warm blanket around his shivering skin.
On a rare weekday at home, I wander down to the market on my local high street, dodging young women with pushchairs and pensioners with canvas shopping-trolleys, and a shiver goes down my spine.
A hair-raising screech from the sound of metal scraping metal sent shivers through me.
She wore big woolly parkas and sipped hot chocolate and coffee the whole way, but she couldn't stop shivering.
A breeze of cold wind blew past her as she shivered with cold and with fear.
They were both soaked to the skin and shivering from cold.
Yet the sun starved goons are still sitting out, shivering, trying to drain the last goodness from the day and avoid facing up to the fact that they have an exam in the morning.
She shaded her eyes and shivered in the bright sunlight.
The thought sends shivers down your spine. The Sun
The wind seemed to blow bitter cold through him as much as around him, and Taberah sometimes shivered even when he was inside and wearing a sweater.
I felt a stale coolness on my face and I shivered and stood back, then I went out of the cave. THE EXECUTION
If you want to survive, you shivering ninny, you might as well shoot off your big toe.
Julie again felt a shiver run up her spine.
A freezing gust of wind blew into Iris' face making her shiver slightly.
That night, streetlights shimmer in shivering puddles, darkened only briefly by the shadows of bicycles.
He chuckled, a wickedly delicious little chuckle that sent a shiver down her spine.
The thought sends shivers down your spine. The Sun
Opening the door to a chink, Rosalie saw the Miss Pockets, shivering, the permanent decoration on the nose of the elder Miss Pocket very conspicuous and agitatedly swinging, ushered into the study, and presently her father follow his jutty nose into the study after them, and very shortly after that the This Freedom
The boy supped and brandished the weapons and in the process broke them all to shivers and splinters.
When Joe and Charley weren't throwing fits they were making believe, and in the darkness the shivers from the cold which I couldn't see seemed like fits, too. TOLD IN THE DROOLING WARD
Rather, his low laugh held a note that sent unexpected shivers down her spine.
In a jerk the goat in tiger skin shivered with fear. Even the hesitant jackal which had stopped its steps was baffled.
The second-topmost stage is queasiness, which is in some ways worse; I feel like I'm going to throw up because my stomach is spinning like a top and my entire body is shivering tautly, like a puppet with the strings being pulled in every direction, but I'm not quite sick enough to vomit. The Ferrett's Stress Alert Level
A 75-year-old man was admitted for fever, shivering, arthralgia, and chest pain that increased with deep breathing.
A shiver of pleasure went down her spine as she turned to look at him.
He went to bed saying he felt cold and shivery and he awoke at 5am the following day coughing up blood.
My skinny body shivered in the cold of the basement pool.
‘But it amounts to a morgue,’ Jen quietly agreed, shivering slightly at the reduced temperatures in the small room.
With the coming of night, however, the wind lost its brick-kiln heat and blew almost chilly, so that Hornblower found himself shivering a little. Hornblower In The West Indies
I felt the air around me drop a few degrees and shivered a bit.
Again, Saoirse shivered pleasantly, enjoying the cool of his hands against her warm, humming skin.
Just being in the same room as him sent shivers of something down her spine that up to now she had never experienced.
Here is a new series of mystery stories for girls by an author who knows the kind of stories every girl wants to read -- mystery of the "shivery" sort, adventure that makes the nerves tingle, clever "detecting" and a new lovable heroine, Judy Bolton, whom all girls will take to their hearts at once. Marjorie's Busy Days
Throwing off a shiver, the newsman recovered to offer a succinct report on the effectiveness of the controversial police deterrent.
She shivered as their chilled breath filled the air, suffocating her with its putrid weight.
Whenever I hear that music, I feel a shiver down my spine.
He picked the larger shivers of glass out of the cut but that just made it bleed more.
Briana shivered in the 90⁰ heat, jumping with hotch scotch feet over puddled corners. Madi's Love
I watched in horror as he shivered, streams of tears tracing paths through the dust on his cheeks.
It sits there shivering in its damp towel until she comes with urine bottle and tube.
Watching her devotion to her new son sent a shiver down my spine. The Sun
She took her knife and "uncast" the circle; Larry shivered, looked down at his feet, and concentrated on getting himself all locked down. Jinx High
I'm scared, " she admitted, with a shiver.
Trinity gasped as his movement sent shivers up her spine and her arms broke out in gooseflesh.
She shivered with fear and anger.
As he stepped off the last creaking stair and onto the cold stone floor of the cellar, a shiver ran up his spine.
The workout area was drafty and cold as always, and Star slightly shivered under her workout clothing but she could take it.
He shivered at the thought of the cold, dark sea.
How do scientists explain why shivering over such scary things is fun?
I am standing, dripping and shivering, on the cold lino of the Palmers Green bathroom, just out of the big enamel bath, pleading, "Dry me, Mummy, I'm freezing", and then sitting on her lap, warmly wrapped in that same towel with its pale green stars. Family life
We moved on, Strickland silent and wrathful, until Fleete was taken with violent shivering fits and sweating.
She felt a shiver run up her spine as she closed the door behind her.
She shivered a little, leaning on the balustrade and looking down into the darkness while he gave some instructions to the maid.
Tooth abscesses can also cause fever (high temperature), shivers and general aches and pains.

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