Example Sentences

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Shrug we may, but I’ll bet that over in Baltimore the Washington Monument — the real Washington Monument, as Baltimoreans insist ad nauseam — is quivering at its base.

From Washington Post

The industry is quivering with the unmistakable impulse of a new "trend."

From Time Magazine Archive

“I just wanted to tell you first,” she says, and now her voice is quivering, too.

From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway

My jaw is quivering, but it’s a small quiver.

From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell

But the thin, piping tones swelled a hundred years later into the sullen roar of the French Revolution, and civilization to this day is quivering to the reverberations of his voice.

From Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)