How to Use vibrate in a Sentence

vibrate

verb

• The car started to vibrate.
• When you blow into the instrument, the air vibrates the reed.
• The chants were so loud that the car windows seemed to vibrate.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
• First, make a ukulele that can both move and vibrate on a bed of grass.
  — Alida Nugent, Peoplemag, 10 Apr. 2024
• The city seemed to be vibrating with the mere knowledge of B’s presence in the GTA.
  — Hazlitt, 19 July 2023
• There isn’t a cloud in the sky, and my phone has only vibrated twice.
  — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 28 June 2024
• Then a storm came and the gazebo started vibrating in the breeze.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 28 July 2019
• At one point, the sky started to vibrate, and the edges glowed violet and green.
  — New York Times, 23 Apr. 2021
• In other words, the show could stand to ease on down more and vibrate madly a bit less.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2023
• Vests will light up or vibrate to let a player know when they’ve been hit.
  — Stephanie Jarrett, chicagotribune.com, 11 Apr. 2021
• First the snake can vibrate its tail to mimic a rattlesnake.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 15 Aug. 2022
• The watch will vibrate when the session starts, and then again two minutes later when the time is up.
  — Jason Cipriani, CNN Underscored, 22 Sep. 2020
• There was the sense that the vibrating craft was an extension of my limbs.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
• The broad, flat sides will vibrate easily and project sound very well.
  — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2021
• Use some Thread Locker (blue or red) to keep the bolts from vibrating loose.
  — Jeff Dengate, Popular Mechanics, 14 Aug. 2023
• Bass notes on the electric organ made the ground under our feet seem to vibrate.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• Instead, the sleeve of your shirt, suit jacket or dress will glow, blink or vibrate with alerts.
  — Ray A. Smith, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2020
• Polarized light is like streaking a comb through messy hair—all the waves now vibrate in the same plane.
  — Max G. Levy, Wired, 23 June 2021
• All mobile devices must be set to silent or vibrate at all times.
  — Andrew Mahoney, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2022
• The incoming message will also make a noise and the phone should vibrate.
  — Rebecca Santana, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2023
• At its center, a metal bowl and a light bulb hang, emitting a low roar that makes the sculpture and the room around it vibrate.
  — Victoria Dalkey, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024
• This part of the movie, a song of the bittersweet, strange sadness of adolescence, vibrates with life.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 13 Sep. 2019
• Then, the warnings get louder and more frequent, the car tugs on your seatbelt, and the seat and steering wheel will vibrate.
  — Daniel Golson, The Verge, 27 Sep. 2023
• Thanks to a bass’s lateral lines, a vibrating jig is an easy bait for the fish to detect in the water.
  — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 12 Oct. 2023
• At idle, the mirrors vibrate so hard as to be unusable.
  — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 1 May 2021
• Touch your bracelet whenever your partner comes to mind and theirs will light up and vibrate.
  — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 19 Dec. 2022
• The waiter will pour the wine into your glass, and pour, and pour, and pour...until the surface tension of the wine vibrates slightly.
  — Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 23 Dec. 2019
• Sound waves traveling through your ear canal cause your eardrum to vibrate.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2022
• In the case of a harp, all 36 strings are vibrating at the same time and producing this synergetic tonal event.
  — Sean Illing, Vox, 11 Oct. 2024
• That's not all: While the light therapy is happening, the mask vibrates and targets key pressure points around the eyes, browline, and scalp.
  — Angela Trakoshis, Allure, 27 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024