SHIVER in a Sentence

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186 example sentences for SHIVER, such as:

1. Jake stood shivering in the cold air.
2. A sudden gust of cold wind made me shiver.
3. I was sitting on the floor shivering with fear.
4. He shivered at the thought of the cold, dark sea.
5. He shivered as he heard the strange noise in the night.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHIVER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
shiver
 v.  shake with or as if with cold; tremble; break into fragments or splinters
Classic Sentence: (177 in 12 pages)
1  He said nothing but, seeing her shiver, he took his coat and placed it about her shoulders.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
2  The wintry wind swept her damp ankles and she shivered again but her shiver was less from the wind than from the dread his words evoked in her heart.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
3  The cold wind made her shiver and the chilly needle-like drops drove hard into her face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
4  "Yes, you are," said Scarlett, but a shiver went over her, like a goose walking across her grave.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
5  She allowed herself to be led into the front room and though she stood on the hearth rug in front of the fire she began to shiver.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
6  He felt a slight shiver down his spine as he ventured this, but her laugh reassured him.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
7  She turned from the thought with a little shiver, but it hung on her all the way to the station, and dogged her down the platform with the persistency of Mr. Rosedale himself.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
8  She drew back with a shiver from the pleasant paths in which her thoughts had been straying, and set her feet once more in the middle of the long white road.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
9  Even the immediate one of letting Trenor, as they drove homeward, lean a little nearer and rest his hand reassuringly on hers, cost her only a momentary shiver of reluctance.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
10  She sat up, bewildered by the strangeness of her surroundings; then memory returned, and she looked about her with a shiver.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
11  It was a day of amber sunlight, but there was a shiver of coming winter in the air.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VI
12  This voice of the people rejoicing in the night had made him shiver in a prolonged ecstasy of excitement.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
13  He gave a sudden start and shiver; but made no answer.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
14  The unfortunate creature's tongue seemed hardly to have been moistened in it before it gave a convulsive shiver in every limb, and lay as rigid and lifeless as if it had been struck by lightning.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
15  The young, who can't make, but only break; shiver into splinters the old vision; smash to atoms what was whole.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
Example Sentence:
1  I shiver as I stand smoking on the lawn, listening to the birds talk to each other in autumn wind.
2  A sudden gust of cold wind made me shiver.
3  Jake stood shivering in the cold air.
4  I was sitting on the floor shivering with fear.
5  Mason, shivering as some one chanced to open the door, asked for more coal to be put on the fire, which had burnt out its flame, though its mass of cinder still shone hot and red.
6  She shivered at the thought of going into the dark house alone.
7  He shivered at the thought of the cold, dark sea.
8  He shivered as he heard the strange noise in the night.
9  It shivered in my heart, like a suffering child in a cold cradle; sickness and anguish had seized it.