quiver
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She conjures a bewitching onscreen presence that many of her contemporaries could only dream of, pulling the viewer’s gaze with a single glare from her steely eyes or the quiver of her chin.
From Salon â Aug. 17, 2026
That wrist is how Alcaraz sculpts that spectacular drop shot that makes opponents quiver at the knees and would make Harry Hopman cry.
From The Wall Street Journal â Aug. 6, 2026
As Pierce sees it, a 10% cap is “one of the few arrows left in the quiver for the White House really struggling to address the affordability crisis.”
From MarketWatch â Mar. 19, 2026
With a few deft strokes of his pen, he could convey the quiver of self-doubt, the swagger of chauvinism, the crush of depression.
From Los Angeles Times â Jan. 21, 2025
But the nearer we drew to downtown, the more I felt that familiar, frightening quiver like Jell-O in my stomach.
From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals
His lower lip quivers; there’s an expression on his face that my husband and I used to call “sad baby.”
From Slate â May 10, 2026
Iang's face quivers as she recounts the story of what happened on 26 November in K-Haimual, her village in Myanmar's western Chin State, and then she breaks down.
From BBC â Dec. 21, 2025
With calculations based on linear algebra, the research team demonstrated that -- analogous to radioactivity in atomic nuclei -- a magnetic quiver can decay into a more stable state or fission into two separate quivers.
From Science Daily â Jun. 3, 2024
She played a new single, “Alone,” that had some jazzy, jagged percussion and Björk-worthy vocal quivers, showing she’s getting only more ambitious with time.
From Los Angeles Times â Nov. 13, 2023
One of them pauses, and quivers a little.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
His lips quivered as he held back tears.
From The Wall Street Journal â Jul. 9, 2026
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 â Apr. 9, 2025
Time itself quivered with the sound, that terrible, haunting chirping, adversely impacting our mental health forever.
From Salon â Feb. 9, 2024
Varinia Canto Vila complied, and her body began to vibrate until her elbows gradually quivered to life.
From New York Times â Dec. 16, 2022
The way the big pink wart on her upper lip quivered, I couldn’t tell if she had seen them kissing or just lost her nerve.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
Through evocative descriptions—the skylark’s trill “hovering in the quivering air,” or the sun rising over a “silvery, dew-thick cow meadow”—Ms. Haynes invites us to take part in the daily rhythms of our natural world.
From The Wall Street Journal â Apr. 17, 2026
"Cathy and Heathcliff's passions vibrate through their dress, their surroundings, and everything else within reach, and you leave the cinema quivering on their own private frequency."
From BBC â Feb. 10, 2026
Hegseth’s brief tenure at the Pentagon has been dominated by his quivering inability to deal with any kind of challenge or discomfort.
From Salon â Dec. 3, 2025
You will achieve nothing by quivering “B-b-but the price-to-earnings ratio!” as its stock continues to trade above this atmosphere.
From Slate â Jul. 8, 2025
The men on the quivering, battered boat were mad with terror, all except one who thought only of Alcyone and rejoiced that she was in safety.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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