Example Sentences

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Now, all the other NFC contenders are getting hot — Seattle, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Chicago — and the Rams are shuddering in an emotional ice bath.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2025

Even so, stocks are shuddering and consumers are watching nervously as the central bank prepares for what could be an unusually rapid withdrawal of monetary support — ramping up pressure on its policymakers.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2022

The radar masts of superyachts moored along the Rolf Neslund Body Parts Memorial Ship Canal are shuddering.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 12, 2017

Sporting officials are shuddering at a return to the bad old days of the cold war.

From Economist • Nov. 12, 2015

Poor widows, lacking money to buy coal, are shuddering even now in squalid tenements, and covering their wailing little ones with shoddy blankets.

From American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' by Morgan, Wallace