vibrate
verb (used without object)
to move rhythmically and steadily to and fro, as a pendulum; oscillate.
have vibrated
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present perfectof vibrate.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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A few hours later, the popular diner was in flames, the generator later found to have vibrated across the floor to a wall, where the hot exhaust sparked the fire.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 2, 2020
And his pervasive sense of resentment must have vibrated with those who know resentment as a primary emotion.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 12, 2016
Here are gathered, in this vast multitude of what must appear to you strange faces, thousands whose hearts have vibrated to the chord of sympathy which your written speeches have touched.
From Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States by William Henry Seward
Wood itself, I dare say, must have vibrated a little at that.
From The Lady Paramount by Henry Harland
What a satire, in a period of time of which the shifting seasons could be counted upon one 71 hand, to have vibrated from manuscript to beef, and for the change to be seemingly unalterable!
From A Breath of Prairie and other stories by J. N. Marchand
