SHIVER in a Sentence
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186 example sentences for SHIVER, such as:
1. Jake stood shivering in the cold air.
2. A sudden gust of cold wind made me shiver.
3. I was sitting on the floor shivering with fear.
4. He shivered at the thought of the cold, dark sea.
5. He shivered as he heard the strange noise in the night.
2. A sudden gust of cold wind made me shiver.
3. I was sitting on the floor shivering with fear.
4. He shivered at the thought of the cold, dark sea.
5. He shivered as he heard the strange noise in the night.
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Meanings and Examples of SHIVER
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shiver
n. an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
n. a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement
Classic Sentence: (177 in 12 pages)
1 He said nothing but, seeing her shiver, he took his coat and placed it about her shoulders.
2 The wintry wind swept her damp ankles and she shivered again but her shiver was less from the wind than from the dread his words evoked in her heart.
3 The cold wind made her shiver and the chilly needle-like drops drove hard into her face.
4 "Yes, you are," said Scarlett, but a shiver went over her, like a goose walking across her grave.
5 She allowed herself to be led into the front room and though she stood on the hearth rug in front of the fire she began to shiver.
6 He felt a slight shiver down his spine as he ventured this, but her laugh reassured him.
7 She turned from the thought with a little shiver, but it hung on her all the way to the station, and dogged her down the platform with the persistency of Mr. Rosedale himself.
8 She drew back with a shiver from the pleasant paths in which her thoughts had been straying, and set her feet once more in the middle of the long white road.
9 Even the immediate one of letting Trenor, as they drove homeward, lean a little nearer and rest his hand reassuringly on hers, cost her only a momentary shiver of reluctance.
10 She sat up, bewildered by the strangeness of her surroundings; then memory returned, and she looked about her with a shiver.
11 It was a day of amber sunlight, but there was a shiver of coming winter in the air.
12 This voice of the people rejoicing in the night had made him shiver in a prolonged ecstasy of excitement.
13 He gave a sudden start and shiver; but made no answer.
14 The unfortunate creature's tongue seemed hardly to have been moistened in it before it gave a convulsive shiver in every limb, and lay as rigid and lifeless as if it had been struck by lightning.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
15 The young, who can't make, but only break; shiver into splinters the old vision; smash to atoms what was whole.
Example Sentence:
1 I shiver as I stand smoking on the lawn, listening to the birds talk to each other in autumn wind.
2 A sudden gust of cold wind made me shiver.
3 Jake stood shivering in the cold air.
4 I was sitting on the floor shivering with fear.
5 Mason, shivering as some one chanced to open the door, asked for more coal to be put on the fire, which had burnt out its flame, though its mass of cinder still shone hot and red.
6 She shivered at the thought of going into the dark house alone.
7 He shivered at the thought of the cold, dark sea.
8 He shivered as he heard the strange noise in the night.
9 It shivered in my heart, like a suffering child in a cold cradle; sickness and anguish had seized it.