shudder
verb (used without object)
to tremble with a sudden convulsive movement, as from horror, fear, or cold.
had been shuddering
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past perfect progressiveof shudder.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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How precious these tears were to Maynard, who day after day had been shuddering at the continually recurring image of Tina with the dry scorching stare of insanity!
From Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot
In striving to reach this position, however, I apprehend that the Chief Justice, unreservedly, crossed the chasm on whose brink American jurists had been shuddering for ninety years.
From The Theory of Social Revolutions by Brooks Adams
Where, before, he had been shuddering over thoughts of the death-house cell that might be awaiting him, he now had concern only for the safety of the woman he cherished.
From Within the Law by Bayard Veiller
The man had been pointing to the roof, which threatened to fall in a mass upon them, while she had been shuddering back from the depth of eddying waves below her.
From Erema — My Father's Sin by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
