juddered; juddering; judders
chiefly British
: to vibrate with intensity
the engine stalled and kept juddering—
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Examples of judder in a Sentence
Verb
the engine began to judder alarmingly just a few miles outside of Brighton
Recent Examples on the WebMatt Kamen, WIRED, 22 June 2024
Scenes of wartime destruction in Aleppo are realized with impressive authenticity, courtesy of juddering sound work and Julie Berghoff’s textured production design, while a shivery, waterborne finale, staged under relentless lashings of rain, attains a genuine air of heart-in-mouth peril.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 25 Feb. 2024
Gaiutra Bahadur Keisha Scarville, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2024
It's made even better with Nvidia G-Sync, which eliminates screen tearing and judder by syncing the display's 240Hz refresh rate to the GPU output.
—PCMAG, 1 June 2023
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Verb
With phenomenal effects work blending prosthetics, CGI, and even stop-motion animation for some disturbingly juddering creatures, this stands apart from the horror crowd.
—Matt Kamen, WIRED, 22 June 2024
Scenes of wartime destruction in Aleppo are realized with impressive authenticity, courtesy of juddering sound work and Julie Berghoff’s textured production design, while a shivery, waterborne finale, staged under relentless lashings of rain, attains a genuine air of heart-in-mouth peril.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 25 Feb. 2024
Noun
Trucks carrying quartz sand for all this construction judder along the highways.
—Gaiutra Bahadur Keisha Scarville, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2024
It's made even better with Nvidia G-Sync, which eliminates screen tearing and judder by syncing the display's 240Hz refresh rate to the GPU output.
—PCMAG, 1 June 2023
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“Judder.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/judder. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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