shivery
IPA: ʃˈɪvɝi
adjective
- Given to shivering; tending to shiver.
- (archaic) Easily broken; brittle; flaky.
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Examples of "shivery" in Sentences
- Just plain shivery and I reported it.
- The musicians had been softly playing some "shivery" music.
- In the shivery gray of mountain dawn, Stubener was routed from his blankets by old Pat.
- It gave them a "shivery" sort of feeling, and they were glad to cuddle down in their warm beds.
- I should not like to be a blade of grass on your land, she concluded, with a little shivery shudder.
- He sure did like music, especially them Spanish songs what made a fella kind of shivery and sad-like from his boots up.
- You know, it makes me feel kind of shivery, even though I know that they won't do anything to us when they do catch us, Jack. "
- A shivery gray fellow named Hyppo, the Hypothermic Hippopotamus (see below), who sips whiskey from a flask and angrily fires wool socks into the crowd.
- Max was not up in matters pertaining to ghosts in general, and could only make a guess at emitting the proper kind of sound; but really it did seem quite "shivery," even to the boy responsible for making it.
- Alongside works by Pablo Neruda and Ko Un are poems drawn from Estonian, Hebrew, Catalan, Swedish Eeva-Liisa Manner's shivery "The trees are bare. . ." in which "Autumn / leads its fog-horses to the river", all of them unknown, all demanding further investigation.
- Here is a new series of mystery stories for girls by an author who knows the kind of stories every girl wants to read -- mystery of the "shivery" sort, adventure that makes the nerves tingle, clever "detecting" and a new lovable heroine, Judy Bolton, whom all girls will take to their hearts at once.