How to Use shudder in a Sentence

shudder

1 of 2 verb
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  • The old car shuddered to a halt.
  • The house shuddered as a plane flew overhead.
  • The wounded zombie shuddered and fell to the ground in agony.
    — Brady MacDonald, latimes.com, 22 Sep. 2017
  • All the striped bass off the Jersey Shore should shudder in fear.
    — Jason Nark, Philly.com, 13 June 2018
  • Certain felt the plane shudder and twist slightly to the left.
    — Jeremy Redmon, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Stepan Dmitrievich shuddered and threw his arm over her.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 2 Apr. 2018
  • My pre-teen self just shuddered at the thought of JT’s manhood.
    — refinery29.com, 30 June 2018
  • Those who shudder at the current state of the world can still hope — and plan for — a better day.
    — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2020
  • When your ankle touched my shoulder / the cord shudders in the spine.
    — Stephanie Burt, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2017
  • The picket fence shuddered as the ground opened beneath us to take us all down.
    — Hazlitt, 31 May 2023
  • Many bibliophiles shudder at the thought of tossing a book in the trash.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Punks may shudder to think of it this way, but Fugazi weren’t far removed from the Grateful Dead . . .
    — Leor Galil, Chicago Reader, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Every now and then when coming to stop signs the brakes on my 2014 Hyundai Sonata will shudder.
    — Bob Weber, chicagotribune.com, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Some people may shudder at the many ways Google has a hold on our lives online and that’s fair.
    — Chris Velazco, Washington Post, 26 June 2023
  • This week the ten-year Treasury-bond yield passed the 3% threshold for the first time in over four years and investors shuddered.
    — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Zhou Enlai the diplomat and opera-lover might have shuddered.
    — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
  • The wind moaned and shuddered, an eerie Halloween gale that seemed about three weeks too early.
    — Time, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Then, the metal walls of the tunnel crinkled as the spacecraft shuddered.
    — Eric Berger & Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Or when a goose bumped into the long arm of the ultralight that held the GoPro camera and the plane shuddered.
    — Robin Aigner, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 July 2019
  • And what about patients who might shudder at the thought of being zipped into a body bag?
    — oregonlive, 23 July 2021
  • The LC-130 Hercules cargo plane, fitted with skis, shuddered to a stop on a sheet of ice two miles thick.
    — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Then the Taliban would launch their assault, the coalition would respond, and the earth would shudder.
    — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
  • And every Cubs fan should shudder at the thought of that coming somewhere else.
    — David Haugh, chicagotribune.com, 10 Dec. 2019
  • That’s when a fearful, shuddering ball of fur caught his eye.
    — Scott Craven, azcentral, 11 Nov. 2019
  • And what about patients who might shudder at the thought of being zipped into body bags?
    — NBC News, 11 July 2021
  • His head bounces inside the cockpit as a wheel shudders over a rumble strip.
    — Michael M. Grynbaum, New York Times, 13 May 2023
  • The couple shudder at the thought of passing the pandemic in their former home: a 32-foot boat with a dorm-size fridge.
    — Sarah Feldberg, SFChronicle.com, 11 May 2020
  • Like many Chicagoans, Barry Star shudders when someone asks for ketchup on a hot dog.
    — Michael Mayo, sun-sentinel.com, 2 July 2019
  • With his head in his hands, fingers scraping through the thick, unruly brown locks, and breath shuddering from the tight line of his lips.
    — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Spooky season has long tapped into humans' deepest fears, and the creepy, crawling, and chittering creatures can make even the strongest of us shudder with disgust, especially in numbers.
    — Sarah Sprague, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2023
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shudder

2 of 2 noun
  • For Sang, the thought of returning to the pits brings a shudder.
    — TIME.com, 18 July 2017
  • Is there one of us who does not shudder to hear or read of them?
    — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 28 Aug. 2017
  • Rising yields at the start of 2022 have sent a shudder through tech stocks.
    — Joe Wallace, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2022
  • It’s a phase of life that many of us recall with a shudder — the breakouts, the growth spurts, the hair in new places.
    — Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2021
  • The first thing the pilots would have heard or felt is a bang, sway, or shudder, as the engine failed.
    — Jack Stewart, WIRED, 17 Apr. 2018
  • The names bring a shudder in our decade of calamitous wildfires.
    — Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Or it’s about, shudder, the Clippers (and would be a lot shorter).
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2022
  • When sharing licks of ice cream with friends didn’t cause a shudder to go down your spine.
    — oregonlive, 15 July 2023
  • The tent shudders on its stout poles and the tent fabric strains at its triple-sewn seams, seething and popping.
    — Barry Lopez, Harper's magazine, 10 Jan. 2019
  • For every shudder of fear, there’s a quake of laughter.
    — Scott Burns, Dallas News, 28 Mar. 2020
  • The Stars shudder to think about what life without Jake Oettinger might look like.
    — Dallas News, 29 Oct. 2022
  • For many buyers who lived through the housing crash, the mere mention of ARMs can cause them to shudder.
    — Anna Bahney, CNN, 10 June 2022
  • Then the world changed in early 2020 — but those trends held more or less true, after a brief shudder.
    — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 6 Oct. 2021
  • This stop-start is among the smoothest on the market, reviving the gas engine with nary a shudder.
    — Andrew Krok, Car and Driver, 18 May 2023
  • In this work, the text makes the eye shudder with a stencil motif that includes the blue as part of the lettering.
    — John Zotos, Dallas News, 13 Jan. 2021
  • When the line slows or stops at a factory, the impact sends shudders back through the network.
    — Grace Schneider, The Courier-Journal, 19 Mar. 2020
  • But there's a shudder-inducing dark side to Bloom's good habit.
    — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 20 Jan. 2022
  • The mere sight of tourists wearing the leather-and-cork sandals with socks used to make fashionistas shudder on the avenues of Paris.
    — Nick Kostov, WSJ, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Some shudder at the thought Norton could have remained a Bruin this whole time.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2022
  • Nothing sends a shudder down the spine like an email from your landlord or letting agent.
    — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 26 Jan. 2022
  • That wouldn't touch the biggest jetliners, but the idea sent a shudder through the industry.
    — Samantha Masunaga, latimes.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • That poor teen having to consider (shudders) their back-up state school for a few weeks?
    — Anne Branigin, The Root, 13 Apr. 2018
  • If [this week’s Dow tumble] turns out to be more than a shudder, Trump may start looking for someone to blame.
    — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2018
  • For most people, the thought of spending nine hours in coach on an airplane provokes a full-body shudder.
    — Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren, USA TODAY, 30 June 2017
  • Lillard left the bubble early — and sent a shudder through Rip City — with a knee injury.
    — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 30 Aug. 2020
  • The crash itself is a white-knuckle sequence in which every shudder of the aircraft is felt.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2023
  • These movies are wonderful when they're all about set pieces, and world-building (shudder, that word).
    — Simon Abrams, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Apr. 2018
  • Toschi’s mother, with a final shudder, threw some covers over the furniture and closed the place down.
    — Nancy Hass Simon Watson, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Trump, in a makeshift bunker in the basement at Mar-a-Lago, felt the earth shudder as the last warhead landed in the town of Jupiter, Florida, about 20 miles away.
    — Jeffrey Lewis | Opinion, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Dec. 2017
  • These questions are enough to make journalists and PR folk shudder.
    — April Margulies, Forbes, 4 June 2021

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