shiver
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"Other insects, like bees and moths, shiver to increase their heat," Stensmyr said.
From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2026
What viewer won’t feel a shiver at the prospect of encountering such a man, or fail to wonder what tales we are capable of spinning to get through?
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025
And when the time comes — when the crates of tomatoes start to dwindle and I feel that first late-summer shiver in the air — I’ll settle on a recipe.
From Salon • Jun. 2, 2025
The £300 entry fee at least gets you a bottle of water, accompanied by a shiver of GCSE-dread from decades past.
From BBC • Dec. 17, 2024
Countless were the times she had read of people caught in frightening circumstances; when things seemed at their most dire, inevitably these unlucky people would be described as having “a shiver run down their spines.”
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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