How to Use shudder in a Sentence

shudder

1 of 2 verb

• The old car shuddered to a halt.
• The house shuddered as a plane flew overhead.
• The wounded zombie shuddered and fell to the ground in agony.
  — Brady MacDonald, latimes.com, 22 Sep. 2017
• All the striped bass off the Jersey Shore should shudder in fear.
  — Jason Nark, Philly.com, 13 June 2018
• Certain felt the plane shudder and twist slightly to the left.
  — Jeremy Redmon, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
• Stepan Dmitrievich shuddered and threw his arm over her.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 2 Apr. 2018
• My pre-teen self just shuddered at the thought of JT’s manhood.
  — refinery29.com, 30 June 2018
• Those who shudder at the current state of the world can still hope — and plan for — a better day.
  — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2020
• When your ankle touched my shoulder / the cord shudders in the spine.
  — Stephanie Burt, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2017
• The picket fence shuddered as the ground opened beneath us to take us all down.
  — Hazlitt, 31 May 2023
• Many bibliophiles shudder at the thought of tossing a book in the trash.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 23 Feb. 2018
• Punks may shudder to think of it this way, but Fugazi weren’t far removed from the Grateful Dead . . .
  — Leor Galil, Chicago Reader, 27 Apr. 2018
• Every now and then when coming to stop signs the brakes on my 2014 Hyundai Sonata will shudder.
  — Bob Weber, chicagotribune.com, 21 Oct. 2021
• Some people may shudder at the many ways Google has a hold on our lives online and that’s fair.
  — Chris Velazco, Washington Post, 26 June 2023
• This week the ten-year Treasury-bond yield passed the 3% threshold for the first time in over four years and investors shuddered.
  — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
• Zhou Enlai the diplomat and opera-lover might have shuddered.
  — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
• The wind moaned and shuddered, an eerie Halloween gale that seemed about three weeks too early.
  — Time, 19 Oct. 2017
• Then, the metal walls of the tunnel crinkled as the spacecraft shuddered.
  — Eric Berger & Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 6 Feb. 2018
• Or when a goose bumped into the long arm of the ultralight that held the GoPro camera and the plane shuddered.
  — Robin Aigner, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 July 2019
• And what about patients who might shudder at the thought of being zipped into a body bag?
  — oregonlive, 23 July 2021
• The LC-130 Hercules cargo plane, fitted with skis, shuddered to a stop on a sheet of ice two miles thick.
  — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 17 Jan. 2018
• Then the Taliban would launch their assault, the coalition would respond, and the earth would shudder.
  — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
• And every Cubs fan should shudder at the thought of that coming somewhere else.
  — David Haugh, chicagotribune.com, 10 Dec. 2019
• That’s when a fearful, shuddering ball of fur caught his eye.
  — Scott Craven, azcentral, 11 Nov. 2019
• And what about patients who might shudder at the thought of being zipped into body bags?
  — NBC News, 11 July 2021
• His head bounces inside the cockpit as a wheel shudders over a rumble strip.
  — Michael M. Grynbaum, New York Times, 13 May 2023
• The couple shudder at the thought of passing the pandemic in their former home: a 32-foot boat with a dorm-size fridge.
  — Sarah Feldberg, SFChronicle.com, 11 May 2020
• Like many Chicagoans, Barry Star shudders when someone asks for ketchup on a hot dog.
  — Michael Mayo, sun-sentinel.com, 2 July 2019
• Many of the cars shudder and jerk and frighten and irritate owners.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 24 July 2019
• There are Olympic and world champions from Europe who shudder at the Lake Placid run.
  — Tim Layden, SI.com, 14 Feb. 2018

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shudder

2 of 2 noun

• For Sang, the thought of returning to the pits brings a shudder.
  — TIME.com, 18 July 2017
• Is there one of us who does not shudder to hear or read of them?
  — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 28 Aug. 2017
• Rising yields at the start of 2022 have sent a shudder through tech stocks.
  — Joe Wallace, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2022
• It’s a phase of life that many of us recall with a shudder — the breakouts, the growth spurts, the hair in new places.
  — Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2021
• The first thing the pilots would have heard or felt is a bang, sway, or shudder, as the engine failed.
  — Jack Stewart, WIRED, 17 Apr. 2018
• The names bring a shudder in our decade of calamitous wildfires.
  — Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024
• Or it’s about, shudder, the Clippers (and would be a lot shorter).
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2022
• When sharing licks of ice cream with friends didn’t cause a shudder to go down your spine.
  — oregonlive, 15 July 2023
• The tent shudders on its stout poles and the tent fabric strains at its triple-sewn seams, seething and popping.
  — Barry Lopez, Harper's magazine, 10 Jan. 2019
• For every shudder of fear, there’s a quake of laughter.
  — Scott Burns, Dallas News, 28 Mar. 2020
• The Stars shudder to think about what life without Jake Oettinger might look like.
  — Dallas News, 29 Oct. 2022
• For many buyers who lived through the housing crash, the mere mention of ARMs can cause them to shudder.
  — Anna Bahney, CNN, 10 June 2022
• Then the world changed in early 2020 — but those trends held more or less true, after a brief shudder.
  — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 6 Oct. 2021
• This stop-start is among the smoothest on the market, reviving the gas engine with nary a shudder.
  — Andrew Krok, Car and Driver, 18 May 2023
• In this work, the text makes the eye shudder with a stencil motif that includes the blue as part of the lettering.
  — John Zotos, Dallas News, 13 Jan. 2021
• When the line slows or stops at a factory, the impact sends shudders back through the network.
  — Grace Schneider, The Courier-Journal, 19 Mar. 2020
• But there's a shudder-inducing dark side to Bloom's good habit.
  — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 20 Jan. 2022
• The mere sight of tourists wearing the leather-and-cork sandals with socks used to make fashionistas shudder on the avenues of Paris.
  — Nick Kostov, WSJ, 26 Feb. 2021
• Some shudder at the thought Norton could have remained a Bruin this whole time.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2022
• Nothing sends a shudder down the spine like an email from your landlord or letting agent.
  — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 26 Jan. 2022
• That wouldn't touch the biggest jetliners, but the idea sent a shudder through the industry.
  — Samantha Masunaga, latimes.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• That poor teen having to consider (shudders) their back-up state school for a few weeks?
  — Anne Branigin, The Root, 13 Apr. 2018
• If [this week’s Dow tumble] turns out to be more than a shudder, Trump may start looking for someone to blame.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2018
• For most people, the thought of spending nine hours in coach on an airplane provokes a full-body shudder.
  — Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren, USA TODAY, 30 June 2017
• Lillard left the bubble early — and sent a shudder through Rip City — with a knee injury.
  — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 30 Aug. 2020
• The crash itself is a white-knuckle sequence in which every shudder of the aircraft is felt.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2023
• These movies are wonderful when they're all about set pieces, and world-building (shudder, that word).
  — Simon Abrams, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Apr. 2018
• Toschi’s mother, with a final shudder, threw some covers over the furniture and closed the place down.
  — Nancy Hass Simon Watson, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2022
• Trump, in a makeshift bunker in the basement at Mar-a-Lago, felt the earth shudder as the last warhead landed in the town of Jupiter, Florida, about 20 miles away.
  — Jeffrey Lewis | Opinion, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Dec. 2017
• These questions are enough to make journalists and PR folk shudder.
  — April Margulies, Forbes, 4 June 2021

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