How To Use Shudder In A Sentence

  • This policy could bring that programme to a shuddering halt. Times, Sunday Times
  • ‘If we fail, send reinforcements…’ Her voice trailed away again, and they saw her shudder.
  • It reduces engine shudder and powers the moving parts much more efficiently, being directly connected to the drivetrain. The Sun
  • As she embraced him, she felt his shrunken arms and shuddered; the muscular vibrance that had always been the essence of his personality was completely absent. Empire of Dreams
  • The crew braces for shock, the boat shudders and a giant plume of boat wash is the only mark left in the faint moonlight as the boat races forward into harm's way.
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  • I'm not sure I could live in a world where the potential of a spider with googlie eyes chasing me is possible. *shudder* 3. Spiders don't have smiley faces. And Now the Conclusion of The Spider Wreck Chronicles
  • That Malkin b! tch is a mother (* shudder*) and she ought to know better. Think Progress » Thiessen’s Inconsistency Undermines Claim That Detainee Lawyers Can’t Be Compared To John Adams
  • To him however that feels the same disgust and loathing, the same unutterable shuddering, as I feel, start up within him and shoot through his whole frame at the sight of them, these miscreate deformities, such as toads, beetles, or that most nauseous of all Nature's abortions, the bat, are not indifferent or insignificant: their very existence is a state of direct enmity and warfare against his. The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck
  • A moment later, the dead boy's chest heaved in a last agonal gasp, a deep groan shuddering his body, his bed, my soul. Titrate until comfortable
  • But the taxidermy art gives me the shudders. Times, Sunday Times
  • There is a life-like pliability about it as it falls, and the tight cerements so define the outlines that the action makes me shudder. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
  • Alexis, violently shuddering, stood half hidden by her stepfather's bulk, a scarecrow in Craig's navy blazer. A THEORY OF RELATIVITY
  • I shudder to think how much this is all going to cost .
  • The morning light was diffused to a mucky orange by the pollution of the shuddering city.
  • I was desirous, but unable, to obey; these gleams were such as preluded the stroke by which he fell; the hour, perhaps, was the same -- I shuddered as if I had beheld, suspended over me, the exterminating sword. Wieland; or the Transformation. An American Tale.
  • Another surge of pain in my ankle caused me to give an involuntary shudder.
  • Yet he still shudders when he recalls the incident which knocked out THREE front teeth and fractured his jaw. The Sun
  • Simpson shuddered, recalling the pock-marked drummer on the O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921
  • Maria shuddered as she stepped outside.
  • Fergus shuddered, for although the Lad was young and firm-fleshed, the smile revealed the evil beneath.
  • People shudder at the thought of them and turn away.
  • After Claire excused herself to run her unspecified "errand" - making Roger shudder only slightly-he and Brianna had driven to the pub, but then decided to wait for their supper, since the evening was unexpectedly fine. Dragonfly in Amber
  • I shudder to think of the way my small, insignificant encounter would be treated today.
  • He shudders at the thought of retirement. Times, Sunday Times
  • The man shuddered,(Sentencedict) rippling like lightning through his hair.
  • The smell of lavender still makes me shudder. The Sun
  • I shudder at the word 'manchild' -- 'cuz I know exactly what you're talking about -- but still, Russell T. Davies and his gang deserve all the praise they get for bringing my childhood hero back in style. BSG Podcasts: My New Year's Resolution ...
  • His head throbbed with sharp stabs of pain, he couldn't seem to stop shaking and his breath came in long, shuddering wheezes.
  • Sometimes a shuddering terror struck him, as if he had been the author of the doom.
  • Stray outside - even to cut a corner between meanders - and you'll shudder onto a mudflat like those raiding warships. Times, Sunday Times
  • He was ghastly pale, and shuddered all over. The Daisy Chain
  • Shuddering with fear and anticipation at the prospect of the weekend ahead, she risked opening her eyes again.
  • The shudder in Tsushiko's body movements told Chase of the prisoner's rising anxiety.
  • Above them they saw the bulldozer lurching and shuddering slantwise down the torn edge of cliff. COUP D'ETAT
  • How many uninspired Hunter S. Thompson riffs have we had to sit and shudder through?
  • Upon this noblest youth -- so far in advance of his rude and turbulent time -- throw a horror that no philosophy, birth, nor training can resist -- one of those weights beneath which all humanity bows shuddering; cast over him a stifling dream, where only the soul can act, and the limbs refuse their offices; have him pushed along by Fate to the lowering, ruinous catastrophe; and you see the dramatic chainwork of a part which he who would enact Hamlet must fulfil. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866
  • And she had broken up with Bryan Stockwell... Jeff shuddered, trying to bring himself back to reality. GING GANG GOOLIE IT'S AN ALIEN
  • Your inner Jack Nicholson pounds around in circles in your head, swearing and shuddering, decrying your overuse of the word snagged and your repetitive and/or awkward sentence structure. Where I work...
  • But then the lorry shuddered, lurching forward over branches on the road towards the port. Times, Sunday Times
  • To suggest otherwise should make us shudder. Christianity Today
  • A rogue wave breaks over the coach-house roof, and the boat shudders in protest.
  • How can we take without either a shudder or a laugh the abject refusal of Emmathat "imaginist," self-indulgent, independent, charmingly creative and snobbish heroineto call Knightley "George" after they are betrothed: "I never can call you any thing but Mr. Knightley" (III. xvii, 420). Box Hill and the Limits of Realism
  • Language purists shudder at the way text-speak mangles, simplifies and abbreviates. Times, Sunday Times
  • That gave us the first shudder at the frightfulness of this war and at the principle of fight with which the Hun is fighting. Britain At War
  • Second, the oh-so-vile taste of the beer - I still shudder at the memory from last night.
  • The Grimm Ambient drags even lower with ‘Bathory,’ starting with thudding subharmonics, spreading out and shuddering to reluctant end.
  • She snapped, taking a deep, shuddering breath.
  • Her hand caressed his neck, then her fingers stroked up through his hair in a way that caused a tingle to travel all the way down his spine, his skin breaking out in gooseflesh as he shuddered in reaction.
  • They chew hasheesh; cut themselves with poisoned creases; swing their hammock in the boughs of the Bohon Upas; taste every poison; buy every secret; at Naples, they put St. Januarius’ blood in an alembic; they saw a hole into the head of the “winking Virgin, ” to know why she winks; measure with an English footrule every cell of the Inquisition, every Turkish caaba, every Holy of holies; translate and send to Bentley the arcanum bribed and bullied away from shuddering Bramins; and measure their own strength by the terror they cause. VIII. English Traits. Character
  • A few years ago, a well-known research immunologist injected himself with hookworms and reduced his allergic symptoms (shudder).
  • The soul abdicates quickly and the flesh abandons itself to shudders.
  • As I grasped the cage another surge of pain in my ankle caused me to give an involuntary shudder. A Roomful of Birds - Scottish short stories 1990
  • Igniting with unstoppable force, the whole shuddering plot accumulates volume on a logarithmic scale before its explosive, bunker busting climax.
  • But then the lorry shuddered, lurching forward over branches on the road towards the port. Times, Sunday Times
  • He was a little unlucky to only finish fourth in the Tingle Creek after a shuddering error when setting a blistering pace. The Sun
  • One shudders to think of the scale of red ink if there is a more serious slide in credit quality. Times, Sunday Times
  • The mere thought of standing in front of a classroom of high-spirited Scottish teenagers is enough, you might think, to make the vast majority of septuagenarians shudder.
  • He slumped against the windows, taking a deep shuddering breath.
  • Not from cold, not from pain, just from the nearness of him that sent shudders lightly through her body.
  • But then the lorry shuddered, lurching forward over branches on the road towards the port. Times, Sunday Times
  • Peaceful cities are affrighted by the crack of rifles and the snarl of machine-guns, and the hearts of the shuddering are shaken by the roar of dynamite. WANTED: A NEW LAW OF DEVELOPMENT
  • If you love skiing but shudder at the cost, take advantage of our superb family offer.
  • Though perhaps, as a bright 19-year-old, these old-school chivalries may make you shudder. Times, Sunday Times
  • Realizing that something was indeed watching her through the use of magic, Gwen shuddered, unable to think of anything that had the power to scry with out using water.
  • Horses whinnied and the trailers and trucks swayed and shuddered. In Gordath Wood: Writer Patrice Sarath » Earthquakes in New York: I thought I was just making it up!
  • What happens next still has me shuddering and recoiling with horror.
  • He still recalls that experience with a shudder. Times, Sunday Times
  • This policy could bring that programme to a shuddering halt. Times, Sunday Times
  • I shuddered and banished such thoughts to the back of my mind. Times, Sunday Times
  • One shudders to think of the scale of red ink if there is a more serious slide in credit quality. Times, Sunday Times
  • She breathed in and out in long shuddering breaths.
  • How many uninspired Hunter S. Thompson riffs have we had to sit and shudder through?
  • There was a blinding flash and the whole building shuddered.
  • She pulled away from my grasp and leaned against the nearest tree, shuddering and gasping for breath as she sobbed into her hands.
  • I shuddered, thinking of my own vacation in the brig.
  • She felt herself give an involuntary shudder and scolded her girlish urges.
  • Incidentally, all this was missing from the way audiences (in the Curzon cinema I think) saw another 1960s shockumentary — The Savage Eye (directed by Joseph Strick) — when I saw it I, like the audience, shuddered but felt no complicity at all. Ballardian » An Exhibition of Atrocities: J.G. Ballard on Mondo films
  • The ancient ramshorn curl of a great horn sounded its low, shuddery demand for attention. The Fate of the Phoenix
  • He spoke sincerely, but with a drunken slur, and I shuddered.
  • Her shuddering lessened, and her expression calmed. Deep Kiss Of Winter
  • He's fooled around with most every idiom of electronic dance music (some of which he shudders in shame to mention).
  • These white hulks, so Coyote told them, came shuddering down the arroyo when spring floods sent a muddy fury rioting between the banks. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
  • I shuddered at the sight of the dead body.
  • Derec shuddered at the idea of untrained people teasing through the tatters of a positronic brain. Mirage
  • His name causes museum and gallery curators shudder, for his calling card is paintings once hung. Times, Sunday Times
  • She gives a painful shudder. Times, Sunday Times
  • They had driven off from the pumps without paying but their getaway came to a shuddering halt when they barely made it off the forecourt. The Sun
  • I still shudder at the thought of that hideously preppy name.
  • But then the lorry shuddered, lurching forward over branches on the road towards the port. Times, Sunday Times
  • One shudders to think of the scale of red ink if there is a more serious slide in credit quality. Times, Sunday Times
  • With a shudder he turned back and entered the ball once more, just as unnoticeable and undistinguished that he had been when he first arrived.
  • I recognised him and tried to say something but just ended up shuddering and gasping breaths, hyperventilating.
  • As I grasped the cage another surge of pain in my ankle caused me to give an involuntary shudder. A Roomful of Birds - Scottish short stories 1990
  • The airship pitched suddenly diving forward and then back as the aircraft shuddered in a sick whine.
  • He lifted his hands to the skies and sounded a long weird call that seemed to shudder endlessly out into space, dwindling and fading, yet never dying out, only receding farther and farther into some unreckoned cosmos. Wings in the Night
  • A cannon ball struck the wall of the fortress and the building shuddered underneath us.
  • One separates from the throng hovers awhile on the edge shudders, hesitates, realizes it is alone, a grace note, composes a radical new choreography darts and dives to its own dance that complements, defies and defines solo and ensemble, both we and me. Contretemps - French Word-A-Day
  • The carriage shuddered and began to roll forward, clattering over the cobblestones.
  • One could almost feel the shudders of disapproval through the floor. Times, Sunday Times
  • But Meriem could but shudder as she recalled the cruelties of this terrible old hag in the years gone by. The Son of Tarzan
  • Until very recently he worked as a teacher and he still shudders at the memories.
  • We shudder to imagine what destructive power they would then wield. The Sun
  • The mere thought of this weak-kneed party getting into power sends shudders down my spine.
  • The sight of the coffin sent a shudder through him.
  • I imagine that most writers blanch and shudder upon meeting meeting meeting*, then reach for the internalized thesaurus... On a meeting meeting
  • As it was slowing to a stop, the aircraft shuddered and its landing gear collapsed, propellers digging into the runway.
  • His tongue slid against hers; she shuddered, not with anger nor with displeasure but with some dark, deep emotion.
  • He gave a shuddering sigh, and bent his body into a fetal position.
  • He was rocking on his mattress, chanting, the steady whump of his head on plaster a gentle shudder in the house. FAMILY PICTURES
  • Pooley, taking this to be some after-effect of his discovery, shuddered briefly and tried to make himself heard.
  • But when they moved him into the buckboard using a hard board stretcher, he shuddered violently and passed out.
  • The old engine ground and shuddered.
  • A good friend of mine passed along your wonderful recent article on architects, and I had to laugh and shudder at the same time.
  • She took another shuddering breath as she placed her head under the running water and allowed it to soak her hair.
  • He shuddered and then settled back in his chair with a trembling sigh. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
  • At least that's one explanation for the involuntary shudder I experienced as my son began pointing and shouting. Times, Sunday Times
  • Alone, in a sequestered place, surrounded by vestiges of old time and decay, it rather has a tendency to call a shudder into being. The Mystery of Edwin Drood
  • The engine misfires, the body shudders to a halt.
  • He shudders as Jack leaves his body, trailing ectoplasm and humming ‘I'm the Wolf.’
  • He leapt again - at the window this time, barely making it shudder as the chair bounced off it at a crazy angle, ballooned out of his hands and almost struck Owen in the head as it glided across the corridor.
  • But the sombre peace is shattered when a bomb blast is heard shuddering in the distance and the spooks must answer the call of duty.
  • Stray outside - even to cut a corner between meanders - and you'll shudder onto a mudflat like those raiding warships. Times, Sunday Times
  • If Darwin could have seen the molecular complexity of the eye, his shudder might well have turned even colder.
  • His skin was rough and calloused, and it made the nerves under her skin shudder to feel the texture.
  • Mr Campion shuddered to think of the kind of ambuscade Uncle William might have arranged had he ever conceived the idea of such a method of shelving the suspicion against him. Police at the Funeral
  • With a cold shudder he forced the recollection away and rowed on to town. A Time of War
  • _Keeling's_ wife is worthy of a place in the author's long gallery of woolly-witted matrons; while in _Silverdale_ he has given a study of clerical futility and egotism almost savage in its detestability, a portrait at which one laughs and shudders together. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 28, 1917
  • Autumn looked in the mirror at Daisy's mop of frizz and shuddered. ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
  • Yet once again the buried memory tried to rise, bringing with it a cold shudder. A Time of War
  • And so she shuddered away from the threat of his enduring love. North and South
  • She shuddered again, the goosebumps rising on her stomach.
  • I remembered with a shudder the crib in which Luman had been bound; and the look of unappeasable rage in his eyes. GALILEE
  • Her father shouted, loud enough to make Melanie shudder and step back.
  • The elevator rose with a shudder.
  • The ship's motion altered as the main topsail backed, as the ship's speed checked and its corkscrew shudder ended.
  • I heard a massive explosion and the ground shuddered beneath me.
  • I shudder to think how much this is all going to cost .
  • Police shudder at the prospect of facing a population which has anti-aircraft guns and rocket launchers at its disposal.
  • He drew a deep shuddering breath, cursing with every ounce of his soul the hallmark of the Elven race that gave him the memories of his parents' lives as they themselves had lived them.
  • I knew from experience that before you went swimming off a dock for the first time each summer, you needed to check the sides and the ladder carefully for bryozoa, colonies of slimy green critters that grew on hard surfaces underwater think coral, but gelatinous—shudder. The Boys Next Door
  • Let there be an end of this shy, proud reserve on the one hand, and this shuddering fine ladyism on the other; and we think we shall find both ourselves and the College bettered. Lay Morals
  • My entire body orgasmed, my legs and muscles tensing and clenching with pleasure, my breath exploding in a shudder. My Fair Succubi
  • The road surface had worn smooth and in places there were sunken tyres tracks that caused vehicles to shudder when they pass over them.
  • The shrewmouse eyes me shudderingly, then flees; and, worse than that, Fly Leaves
  • This is not a horror story but I urge you not to shudder at Forster's vision of future humans reduced to fungoid growths by their slavish dependence on technology. Archive 2010-04-01
  • But then the lorry shuddered, lurching forward over branches on the road towards the port. Times, Sunday Times
  • That's the social safety net you've been sneering at, oh-so-wittily placing the phrase in shudder-quotes. Archive 2009-02-01
  • Beyond 40m, the pull begins to ease and I shudder as a thermocline reduces the water temperature from a cosy 26°C to a chilly 19.
  • Bloodwing twisted and arced away from the explosion and the remaining torpedoes, and on the other side, Ortisei, having just begun an evasive maneuver, shuddered and sideslipped as the force of the explosion hit her shields. Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages
  • Margaret shuddered at that thought, she didn't want to fight.
  • A deep sigh shuddered through her body.
  • The wounds stung and I shuddered when she applied the pressure.
  • She joined him shortly afterwards, shuddering and knotting the shawl at her throat as the wintry breeze hit her warm skin.
  • I shudder to think how much this is all going to cost .
  • He remembered Thelma's shuddering repugnance at the sight of her, -- a repugnance which he himself had shared -- and which made him shrink with fastidious aversion, from the idea of confiding to any one but Sir Philip, the miserable secret of his connection with her. Thelma
  • I shuddered at the thought of a three course meal filled with dumplings, bread and cheese.
  • He appears to regard rights, a word that he usually encloses in shudder-quotes, as an alibi to advance material claims. Archive 2009-01-01
  • The car eventually shuddered to a halt on its roof.
  • When the lever is pulled, the body twists and shudders violently, cooks and sizzles obscenely, and emits horrible noises from the nose, mouth and anus.
  • This one stood shuddering with cold for a minute or two, head hanging, before he slowly raised his gloved hands and fumbled at the fastenings of his cloak.
  • I shudder at the sight of all the contemporary gadgetry.
  • With that our rally has ground to a shuddering halt. Times, Sunday Times
  • Jake awoke instantly, shuddering and gasping for breath.
  • What might follow is needless for me to name; -- your soul must shudder at the idea of conjugal infidelity! Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father
  • You will scream, you will shudder, you will turn pale with fright.
  • The normally high-speed Channel Tunnel service was brought shuddering to a halt on Friday by what a British spokesman called a fall of "fluffier" than expected snow, amid widespread chaos across the rest of the transport network. Dose.ca Music briefs
  • They had arrived at the straw pallet on which Philip lay, so still and mute that Cadfael's heart misdoubted for a moment, and then caught gratefully at the sudden shudder and crepitation of breath. A River So Long
  • The profession of advocate had terrified him, and he shuddered at the idea of tilling the soil. Theresa Raquin
  • He still recalls that experience with a shudder. Times, Sunday Times
  • The terrible figure of Draupadi, as she dishevels her long black hair, is the very impersonation of revenge; and a Hindoo audience never fails to shudder at her fearful vow -- that the straggling tresses shall never again be tied up until the day when Bhima shall have fulfilled his vow, and shall then bind them up whilst his fingers are still dripping with the blood of Duhsasana. The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims, In All Times and Countries, especially in England and in France
  • To gauge by the shudder of inadequacy this compilation can send through its readers, that may be for the best.
  • The midway, while still a charming slice of carnival colour, is full of antiquated rides that wheeze and shudder like geezers on their deathbeds.
  • But I think that first-degree murder verdict should send a shudder through the defendant.
  • An American cackle, piercing my ear, and I shuddered away by instinct, which was sound judgment, for if I felt dreadful, she looked worse, a raddled slattern grinning her stinking breath into my face, reaching out a fat hand across my chest. THE NUMBERS
  • The Welshman took a deep, shuddering breath, yet when he spoke his voice was steady.
  • Alone in the car, she shuddered with fear.
  • It has its wild and demonic forms and can sink to an almost grisly horror and shuddering. Sociology and Religion: A Collection of Readings
  • Some of the collision energy can be channeled into a collective shudder of the condensate called a phonon.
  • You shudder at them still. Times, Sunday Times
  • And find me one left blogger that does what the right frequently does in terms of advocating violence ( 'glassing' whole countries, killing too-moderate Supreme Court judges, eliminating liberals, etc. and all that is in public -- I shudder to think what messages regarding her family this young woman received). Second Blogger Quits Edwards Campaign
  • Pears … pallid corpselike mounds with no flavor. (shudder) And then in some ponderously jiggling, translucent green or orange blob reminiscent of a bad scifi B movie. Weird Foods « Colleen Anderson
  • Police shudder at the prospect of facing a population which has anti-aircraft guns and rocket launchers at its disposal.
  • Ollie put his arms gently round Jean's shuddering body and lightly kissed the top of her head.
  • The factors bringing the age of cheap food to such a shuddering halt are well understood. Times, Sunday Times
  • shudderingly, she acknowledged to herself that she dared not face what lay before her
  • Catherine shuddered as she heard the stuffless sounds, the tiny rustlings and burrowings of those wild, shy creatures whose solitude had lately been so rudely invaded, and who now of man's night made their day. Studies in love and in terror
  • The shuddering din, in the enclosed yard, alerted the three-man staff in the prison office, from which a door was flung open. BARRACUDA 945
  • After relating the bare facts of the suicide decades later, Dan looked away, shuddering to keep his composure.
  • I do shudder to think of how the teams such as the one described in this article would have reacted to such pressure.
  • The train began to pull out of the station-then suddenly shuddered to a halt.
  • Perhaps we are now subliminally doing cross training on our prefrontal cortexes while we shudder and shriek with things like "can you believe they just did that? Kevin J. Fleming, Ph.D.: Twinkie Diet: Empty Calories, Full Wisdom
  • I drew her down and we went to work sidestroke-like, while she nibbled and bit at my ears and chin and lips, gasping and shuddering like the expert trollop she was; I remember thinking, as she gave her final practised heave and sob, Susie was right: with another nineteen like this we'll be able to buy California after a year or two; maybe I'll stay about for a while. Isabelle
  • The Megafortress shuddered, then started to yaw hard to his left. DALE BROWN'S DREAMLAND (5) STRIKE ZONE
  • It reduces engine shudder and powers the moving parts much more efficiently, being directly connected to the drivetrain. The Sun
  • Yet once again the buried memory tried to rise, bringing with it a cold shudder. A Time of War
  • Ellen suppressed another shudder and gave a wan smile that she hoped he would take to mean the week would be a long one for her.
  • They had driven off from the pumps without paying but their getaway came to a shuddering halt when they barely made it off the forecourt. The Sun
  • Autumn looked in the mirror at Daisy's mop of frizz and shuddered. ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
  • I only buy steel shelves or real wood now. shudders ... pressboard. No more modular furniture, ever! A photo essay in real time
  • Trinity's office tower shuddered and dust began to penetrate the building down elevator shafts from the top.

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