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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Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
Neumark shudders to think how much his grandmother may have spent on Beanie Babies.
—Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Oct. 2025
Tim Britton, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
The resulting mass grave of human remains in various arrangements is enough to send a shudder, and if that’s not spooky enough, there’s the entrance inscription that reads: Arrête!
—Sophie Friedman, AFAR Media, 22 Oct. 2025
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Verb
So one shudders to think what might happen when the Dolphins now face a murderer’s row of elite running backs and mobile quarterbacks.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
Neumark shudders to think how much his grandmother may have spent on Beanie Babies.
—Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
And my list has become … shudders … out of date.
—Tim Britton, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
The resulting mass grave of human remains in various arrangements is enough to send a shudder, and if that’s not spooky enough, there’s the entrance inscription that reads: Arrête!
—Sophie Friedman, AFAR Media, 22 Oct. 2025
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“Shudder.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shudder. Accessed 6 Nov. 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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