vibrating

present participle of vibrate

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of vibrating Microneedling is a treatment that uses thin, vibrating needles to puncture your skin. Carley Millhone, Health, 9 Sep. 2025 Rodríguez’s phone is vibrating, shaking the bottle and glasses, though the chicharrones don’t move. Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025 This zoo of proposals all introduce new effects outside the horizon that should change how a vibrating black hole emits gravitational waves. Matt Von Hippel, Quanta Magazine, 27 Aug. 2025 Imagine 750-horsepower wind machines kicking up debris and haptic signals vibrating the seats as the iconic twister lifts Dorothy’s house and deposits it next to the yellow-brick road. Dade Hayes, Deadline, 27 Aug. 2025 The story of damped harmonic systems goes back to 1900, when British physicist Horace Lamb built a simple mathematical model of a particle vibrating inside a solid. Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 16 Aug. 2025 Entre2, Vidbertus A brilliant, very fresh Parellada with a vibrating acidity, very drinkable. Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025 In a different city, a different time, but vibrating at the same sacred frequency, a new story began to hum. Shelby Stewart, Essence, 4 Aug. 2025 Tiny diaphragms, cantilevers, vibrating masses, or circuitous channels, usually smaller than 100 micrometers (the diameter of a human hair), respond to a physical stimulus and then transduce it to an electronic signal. IEEE Spectrum, 27 Nov. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vibrating
Verb
  • Not even a month had passed since his big sister, Toraya, was shot and killed at an apartment complex in New Jersey, devastating the Reid family and shaking the Timberwolves organization to its core.
    Jon Krawczynski, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • In sixteenth-century Europe, just as Martin Luther’s ideas were shaking Catholic institutions, a far more radical movement for freedom rose up among peasants.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • He, too, was bowled over by the film's tear-jerking finale.
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
  • With an epic Oscar-winning title song by Streisand and tear-jerking scenes aplenty, this film is a perennial favorite and often referred to in pop culture.
    Alex Apatoff, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Andy sighed, shuddering between them.
    Bryan Washington, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The White House will be well aware of this fact, particularly in an environment where fiscally conservative Republicans will be shuddering at Uncle Sam’s $37 trillion (and growing) national debt.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2025

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“Vibrating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vibrating. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.

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