Example Sentences

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Each song shudders with youthful cockiness and desperation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

Then, he satirizes conservatives’ discomfort with his Blackness by sitting silently as Martin Short, playing a nervous young Republican delivering a hackneyed diatribe, shudders in his presence before scampering offstage to fall apart.

From Salon • Feb. 22, 2026

One shudders to think what Border Patrol sector chief Gregory Bovino thinks is excessive for la migra.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025

Shona Banu still shudders when she thinks of the past few days.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2025

David slumps over, and then his body shudders, and shudders again.

From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth