shudder
IPA: ʃˈʌdɝ
noun
- A shivering tremor, often from fear or horror.
- A moment of almost pleasurable fear; a frisson.
verb
- (intransitive) To shake nervously, often from fear or horror.
- (intransitive) To vibrate jerkily.
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Examples of "shudder" in Sentences
- I shudder at the thought of it.
- I shudder to think about the future.
- I shudder to think of the consequences.
- Parents shudder at the very thought of it
- They shudder to think what the outcome maybe.
- But I shudder to think of the uproar it will cause.
- There are shudders galore as mercury drops to zero.
- The Lights are superstitious and shudder at lightning.
- BUt yeah, mention Wong Jing and i break out in shudder ...
- I shudder at the inevitable disruption to the entire project.
- -- Netflix shouldn't shudder from the iTunes movie rental news.
- Reading about it made me shudder, which is not something I do easily.
- The parents terrify the children until they are shuddering in the corner.
- "I never had the desire to come here," Howard said with what could be described as a shudder.
- That's the social safety net you've been sneering at, oh-so-wittily placing the phrase in shudder-quotes.
- He appears to regard rights, a word that he usually encloses in shudder-quotes, as an alibi to advance material claims.
- I bent lower over her, and as I did so a slight, involuntary movement, akin to what we call a shudder, ran through her body.
- Alone, in a sequestered place, surrounded by vestiges of old time and decay, it rather has a tendency to call a shudder into being.
- The remoteness that made Goldberg shudder is just half a day's hike from the roadhead, on the east side of the mountain range where I happily spent all my childhood summers.
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