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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Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
The sound seemed to shudder like a pot about to blow its lid.
—Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 1 May 2025
Catherine Arnst, Quartz, 13 May 2025
The news sent shudders through a sprawling community of scientists who immigrated to the United States for careers in research.
—Ellen Barry, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
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Verb
One shudders to think how Ross, whom Grant divorced in 1929, and who died in 1951, would have reacted to so echoing a lack.
—Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
The sound seemed to shudder like a pot about to blow its lid.
—Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 1 May 2025
Noun
One study that sent shudders through the food industry was an examination by researchers at Cornell University of purchases of 150,000 households.
—Catherine Arnst, Quartz, 13 May 2025
The news sent shudders through a sprawling community of scientists who immigrated to the United States for careers in research.
—Ellen Barry, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
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“Shudder.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shudder. Accessed 24 May. 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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