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Examples of shudder in a Sentence
Verb
The old car shuddered to a halt.
The house shuddered as a plane flew overhead.
Noun
a shudder ran through him as he stepped outside into the snow
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Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 15 Jan. 2025
Sure, the movie eventually stumbles across a variety of recognizable genre signifiers (an ominous circle of mushrooms, a row of bushes that ward off local spirits, a puddle that shudders while the rest of the world lies still, etc.), but only after it’s set its terms on a more elemental level.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 25 Jan. 2025
Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025
The need for speed • Netflix’s race to mediocrity
• Awaiting the apocalypse
• The Cybertruck’s (shudder) appeal
1.
—Longreads, 20 Dec. 2024
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Verb
Fire victims like Zaire Calvin of Altadena, whose sister Evelyn McClendon perished in a blaze that burned down their family home, shuddered to think of another blaze like the Eaton Fire igniting.
—Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 15 Jan. 2025
Sure, the movie eventually stumbles across a variety of recognizable genre signifiers (an ominous circle of mushrooms, a row of bushes that ward off local spirits, a puddle that shudders while the rest of the world lies still, etc.), but only after it’s set its terms on a more elemental level.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 25 Jan. 2025
Noun
That brings shudders to Dutcher, whose team just surrendered 15 3s against San Jose State, the most by an SDSU team in a Mountain West game.
—Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025
The need for speed • Netflix’s race to mediocrity
• Awaiting the apocalypse
• The Cybertruck’s (shudder) appeal
1.
—Longreads, 20 Dec. 2024
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“Shudder.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shudder. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.
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shudder
1 of 2 verb
shud·der
ˈshəd-ər 
shuddered; shuddering
-(ə-)riŋ
1
: to tremble with fear or horror or from cold
shuddered just thinking about it
2
: shake entry 1 sense 1, quiver
the train slowed and shuddered to a halt
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