Example Sentences

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The high-stakes game of chicken complicated the effort to negotiate an end to a conflict that has left thousands dead and sent shudders through the global economy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

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

Khushboo Bharti, 31, says she shudders every time she remembers the night of 13 November, when she had to rush her one-year-old daughter Samaira to the emergency.

From BBC • Nov. 26, 2025

Allied leaders will by and large keep their shudders under wraps.

From Slate • Nov. 6, 2024

The town clock rang out six deep booms that Lina could feel, like shudders, beneath her ribs.

From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau