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
Shona Banu still shudders when she thinks of the past few days.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2025
Allied leaders will by and large keep their shudders under wraps.
From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2024
Before Ma can answer, the ground beneath our feet shudders as the volcano belches out more lava and smoke.
From "Dragons in a Bag" by Zetta Elliott
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