quivered

Example Sentences

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While the video played, Doncic’s lip quivered as tears pooled in the corners of his eyes, his emotion at its most visible.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2025

Time itself quivered with the sound, that terrible, haunting chirping, adversely impacting our mental health forever.

From Salon • Feb. 9, 2024

The only place that grass grew in designer Jonathan Anderson’s fashion dystopia was literally out of shoes, where green blades quivered and flapped surreally as the automatons filed by.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 25, 2022

Her hands quivered and seemed to want to flap-paddle the air.

From New York Times • May 17, 2022

My brother’s face was white as a ghost’s and his thick lower lip quivered as he introduced her to our family.

From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez