How to Use shiver in a Sentence

shiver

1 of 2 verb

• To walk up on the shore, sit shivering on the sand, and drink it all in.
  — Victor Blue, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2023
• As the rest of the nation shivers, Phoenix enjoys a warm up.
  — Robert Anglen, The Arizona Republic, 17 Jan. 2024
• Then Colon started to shiver and shake with a bone-deep cold.
  — Jonas Shaffer, Baltimore Sun, 23 Dec. 2022
• This cashmere knit shows just the right amount of skin that won’t leave you shivering in the cold.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Feb. 2023
• Ohioans will have to shiver through six more weeks of winter.
  — Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 2 Feb. 2023
• My body shivered against the weather and my fearful thoughts.
  — Sue Williamson, Vogue, 26 Jan. 2024
• The kittens were cold, unable to shiver or cry, and their eyes were covered in crud.
  — Maria Lopez, cleveland, 29 July 2021
• With my mother shivering in the cold in the middle of winter!!
  — Zizi Strater, Peoplemag, 25 Apr. 2023
• Another, with big sad eyes, shivered as he was pushed in a kids stroller.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 6 May 2023
• Why not a shivering kid with a towel wrapped around his waist?
  — Scott Bordow, The Arizona Republic, 11 July 2023
• Sheeran was dared to shiver and refer to himself in the third person.
  — Andrea Towers, EW.com, 9 Nov. 2021
• According to the fire department that rescued the pet, the dog had stopped shivering and could walk again when the pet left the area.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 13 Dec. 2023
• The other, a lanky middle-aged man shivering in jeans and a hoodie, was Tony Hawk.
  — Bret Anthony Johnston, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
• Even body horror buffs will shiver at the scenes of mutilation and murder in the woods.
  — Emy Lacroix, Peoplemag, 29 Sep. 2022
• Our house began to shiver, and the sidewalk started to patter.
  — Bryan Washington, Time, 16 Apr. 2021
• The Australian Open is a two-week summertime party held when much of the world is shivering.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 1 June 2023
• And so children come in shivering with fever, and with no acetaminophen, little can be done for them.
  — Samar Abu Elouf, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
• Cold air comes muscling in today, changing our overnight rain to snow and then leaving us to shiver all weekend.
  — Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2022
• Old people don’t like to shiver all winter or sweat all summer.
  — Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2023
• Cold water may cause the child to shiver, which would raise their body temperature.
  — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2022
• Standing in the cold outside her friend’s apartment with her two shivering little dogs, Casper called the tow yard again.
  — Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 2 Feb. 2024
• In the meantime, stomach-deep in the water, his family shivered.
  — Melissa Chan, NBC News, 18 Aug. 2023
• Askew slept that night in the car — shivering, broken glass everywhere — swapped it out at the rental place in the morning, and turned on the UberEats app again that afternoon.
  — Britt Peterson, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2023
• Julia stood with her hands clasped, shivering in her party frock.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 4 May 2023
• Jihan and her husband stood shivering under floodlights, and were informed that the name of their new home was Al-Hol.
  — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• Much of the United States is shivering through brutal cold as most of the rest of the world is feeling unusually warm weather.
  — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 17 Jan. 2024
• The snow was cold enough to creak and shiver beneath my skis, and the yellow birch forest strained the morning sunshine into silvered lines of shadow.
  — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2022
• Parts of Maine and New Hampshire could shiver through wind chills of 60 degrees below zero, or lower.
  — CBS News, 2 Feb. 2023
• Video shared by the highway patrol showed aerial nighttime video of the moment the shivering teens were found on the bank after scanning the river.
  — Greg Norman, Fox News, 25 July 2023
• For many months, long-period quakes had shivered within the peninsula’s deep crust.
  — Robin George Andrews, Quanta Magazine, 20 Feb. 2024

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shiver

2 of 2 noun

• Nabokov spoke of the shiver between the shoulder blades.
  — New York Times, 19 Jan. 2021
• This realignment caused a shiver to run through the art world.
  — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2022
• And strange air, dark and gray and silver and soft and very precise, emerges to pool around every pore and shiver of skin.
  — Christopher Cokinos, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2020
• On our first encounter with it, there’s even a shiver of sinister John Williams in Tesori’s score.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2023
• If just the idea of stepping outside runs a shiver down your spine, then bring the fun indoors with a game night or shopping trip at the mall.
  — Seventeen.com Editors, Seventeen, 12 Jan. 2023
• An icy shiver passed through Adam: thirty-five years old, learning about vanguards for the first time.
  — Matt B. Weir, Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022
• Suddenly, a jaguar’s roar broke the spell, giving us shivers.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2023
• But even more compelling of a draw was the prospect of cooling down with shivers of ecstatic terror.
  — Matt Alt, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023
• Games have been interrupted by those same air-raid sirens that still send a shiver down Shevchenko’s spine.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 7 July 2023
• Central to Japan’s slide was deflation, a term that sends shivers up the spines of economists.
  — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
• The very thought sends shivers all the way down to his anatomically ambiguous crotch flesh pouch.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 July 2023
• Decker’s loud cries conveyed her profound pain and sudden fear, sending a shiver down the spines of all who heard them.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2022
• The seeming callousness with which the dancers burlesque a fourteen-year-old’s death—the breezy way that the dance turns a killing into a sight gag—induces a shiver.
  — Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2022
• There’s a shiver of recognition, an unmooring, a reaching beyond your life only to be left with the sum of your deeds.
  — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2023
• And that’s not even counting the looming threat of avian flu, which has sent a shiver through the industry but thankfully hasn’t spread enough to force the killing of Koch’s factory flocks.
  — Chloe Sorvino, Forbes, 17 May 2022
• When the news segment ended and the live coverage resumed, the announcer uttered a series of words that send a shiver down my spine to this day.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 10 Sep. 2021
• The chilly fall breezes can send a shiver down your spine, which can be blocked by an outdoor curtain, depending on what your patio layout is.
  — Courtney Campbell, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2020
• There is a mournful chord and an existential shiver in all of her art — life hanging by a filament, mixed with the will to survive.
  — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 6 Apr. 2021
• Poets have long approached the cold with a shiver of respect, aligning it with the least hospitable, most mysterious kinds of truth.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2022
• Stephen King has crafted some of the most chilling tales of the past 50 years, but nothing quite sends shivers down the spine like a recent revelation made by the Master of Horror.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 6 Sep. 2023
• Then again, the softer tune makes sure rough pavement is dispatched with a minimum of shakes or shivers making their way into the cabin.
  — Andrew Wendler, Car and Driver, 12 June 2023
• Soon enough, a Caribbean reef shark—sometimes a shiver of sharks—emerges from the deep blue beyond, looping over the heads of the divers and claiming fish from the handler, who feeds the shark using a long metal stick.
  — Juli Berwald, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Sep. 2023
• Friday’s high temperature was 52 degrees, a slightly chilly reading — but not the sort to send shivers down spines.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2023
• Bryan Cranston recently sent a shiver down the Internet’s spine with his talk of retirement and selling his stake in Dos Hombres.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 July 2023
• Boaters and swimmers off Orange Beach’s Bird Island were startled last weekend when a shiver of hammerhead sharks swam in near shore.
  — Warren Kulo | [e-mail], al, 13 June 2023
• Head to Hulu and stream a season (or several) of the always-creepy American Horror Story for hours of spine shivers.
  — Diana Pearl, Peoplemag, 23 Oct. 2023
• The engine produces 670 horsepower and has a Ferrari-like howl that'll send shivers down your spine—and have bystanders swiveling in your direction.
  — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 28 Aug. 2023
• Four months removed from his 40th birthday, Gould was forced to make the tackle, delivering a right-shoulder shiver, on Amari Rodgers’ 50-yard return down the right sideline in the first quarter.
  — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Aug. 2022
• The report sent a shiver of excitement through the ornithological world – and beyond.
  — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 July 2023
• One day Nosal saw footage from a news helicopter flying over a shiver of sharks, prompting the scientist to order a 6-foot-wide helium balloon for the same birds-eye view.
  — Ana Ramirez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024