shudder

An omen among omens: Mid-dog-walk that day, I spot a onesie that reads “Milk Drunk” and shudder at the impulse to recruit our newborns into low-key bacchanalia.

From Slate ● May 10, 2026

A 1970s-style outcome, or anything close to it, would have been enough to make anyone shudder — but especially retirees and others living on fixed or semi-fixed incomes.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 8, 2026

Nurse Angela explains away the smell—“Oh, that’s just ether”—but readers familiar with the earlier novel featuring Dr. Larch might shudder.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025

My face would scrunch up and I’d shudder from the intense flavors, but I never cried.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2025

The squeamish ones would pull back their hands as if from a hot stove, and they would shudder and squeak.

From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli

Then, he satirizes conservatives’ discomfort with his Blackness by sitting silently as Martin Short, playing a nervous young Republican delivering a hackneyed diatribe, shudders in his presence before scampering offstage to fall apart.

From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2026

So, too, is the film’s music, composer Anthony Willis and soundtrack artist Charlie XCX entwining raspy strings with grimy, ominous shudders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026

As a bestselling author, relationship coach Matthew Hussey shudders at the idea of using ChatGPT to write a book.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026

She shudders when she looks at the building.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2025

The tip of her cane shudders as it knocks against the runnels, finding every storm drain.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

The stock market shuddered Thursday after investors resumed a weekslong bond selloff that has defied the Treasury Department’s attempts to curb borrowing costs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

Despite all the times I shuddered at the trailer tagline, “Believe in the Hail Mary,” over the last year, I really do.

From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026

"Now I'm afraid of the river," he shuddered.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2025

It should have been a routine procedure but the command module, Odyssey, shuddered.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2025

I shuddered to think of John’s sisters, who slept three to a bed, jumping from a window, their nightshirts billowing up around them as they fell.

From "Worth" by A. LaFaye

In 2008, the shuddering global economy and soaring fuel prices helped push several airlines into bankruptcy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026

“They think we’re these evil business owners,” she said, shuddering.

From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2026

Stunned captain Alyssa Healy says Australia let themselves down after their reign as one-day world champions was brought to a shuddering halt by hosts India.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2025

But instead of taking momentum into those two big games against the tournament favourites, they have been jolted by a shuddering wake-up call.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2025

His eyes were closed; and his body moved only to the long, shallow, shuddering breaths that came at widening intervals.

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford