Example Sentences

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Network Rail seemed to pride itself on displaying platform information at the last possible moment, so we were quivering like greyhounds as we waited to run to the train.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 27, 2017

“Shortly girls were quivering and fainting wherever he turned up to sing Long Tall Sally, I Got a Woman, and Blue Suede Shoes,” the magazine explained.

From Time • Jan. 8, 2016

Mr. Starr has a skinny, burred voice that sounds as if he were quivering, and when the guitarist Paul Jackson chimes in with high harmony vocals, as on “Six Ways to Sunday,” it’s bracing.

From New York Times • Aug. 13, 2012

Its views were stated with unnerving energy and conviction; the prose was tight; the suburban settings had the authentic odor of nylon pile, and the characters were quivering chunks torn from the author's own life.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Wh- what . . . what do you . . . ?" His Jowls were quivering like mounds of suet.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin