shudder

Example Sentences

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On my second watch, I was shocked by how much of “One Battle After Another” already felt tattooed on my brain, down to the shudder I got from Sean Penn’s loathsome Col.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

These revelations bring a shudder, naturally, but also complicate, or rather radically change, our interpretation of Laius’ death.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

"We felt the whole plane shudder – it was a massive hit."

From BBC • Aug. 15, 2025

The scientists of the Manhattan Project, who helped build the bomb and then witnessed Trinity’s fireball, recognized—felt—its epochal shudder.

From Slate • Jul. 17, 2025

Last of all came a little hump-backed, wizened old man in whom she recognized with a shudder the new Grand Vizier and her own betrothed husband, Ahoshta Tarkaan himself.

From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis