quiver
verb (used with or without object)
to shake with a slight but rapid motion; vibrate tremulously; tremble.
quivers
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present tense formof quiver (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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His lower lip quivers; there’s an expression on his face that my husband and I used to call “sad baby.”
From Slate ● May 10, 2026
On a recent evening, Karuk men and boys gathered by the Klamath wearing traditional regalia and holding spears, bows and quivers made of animal skins and filled with willow branches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2024
With calculations based on linear algebra, the research team demonstrated that -- analogous to radioactivity in atomic nuclei -- a magnetic quiver can decay into a more stable state or fission into two separate quivers.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 3, 2024
Mr McKeown, who is 37, was taken to Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, where they discovered he had suffered a ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest, which is when the heart quivers instead of pumping normally.
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2023
She raises a hand to touch it and it quivers, dividing into droplets and then coming back together.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
