quivers

Example Sentences

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His lower lip quivers; there’s an expression on his face that my husband and I used to call “sad baby.”

From Slate • 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 • 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 • 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 • Nov. 13, 2023

Some of them wore swords on their belts; others had quivers of arrows strapped to their backs.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo