Example Sentences

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For now, the words "minor issue" are enough to send shudders through England and their followers.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

Each song shudders with youthful cockiness and desperation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 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

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

The Mustang shudders as Tony revs the engine.

From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher