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Example sentences for "shivering"

Lexicographically close words:
shitten; shittim; shivaree; shiver; shivered; shiveringly; shiverings; shivers; shivery; shives
  1. A ruddy light was on the hill, But shadows in the valley slept; A white mist rested o'er the rill, And shivering leaves with tear-drops wept.

  2. Yergunov, shivering and gasping, breathed on his hands, huddled up, and made a show of being very cold and exhausted.

  3. First of all you would be shivering as in a fever, shrugging and dancing about.

  4. At first he had a violent shivering fit and a feeling of sickness; something revolting as it seemed, penetrating through his whole body, even to his finger-tips, strained from his stomach to his head and flooded his eyes and ears.

  5. There is sometimes a shivering and general tremor, which may exist throughout the whole course of the disease.

  6. If the animal has shivering fits, and the whole surface is chilled, apply warmth and moisture as recommended in article "Locked-Jaw.

  7. And the horse is shivering a bit, like they will.

  8. Isak was eager to see what would come next; he was shivering still; a coldness seemed to radiate from the figure before him--it must be the Evil One!

  9. To wait his pleasure, shivering at his wrath: They bow to their accepted Orient With offer of the all that renders bright: Forgetful of the growth of men to light, As creatures reared on Persian milk they bow.

  10. Dink, waiting under the blanket, saw the captain bear down upon him and, shivering like a dog watching the approach of his punishment, drew the folds tighter about him.

  11. The strange request roused me from my reverie; and looking imploringly in my face stood a thinly-clad, shivering little girl, who carried a small bundle, which she held in her hand with a singular tenacity.

  12. My eye passed rapidly from one to the other; from the savage on the cliff to the perilous path along which my horse crawled, shivering with affright.

  13. I seized the bridle, and he sprang up; but I could feel that he was shivering like an aspen.

  14. Tenderly the latter held her shivering form, as the proud head fell on her shoulder; and after a time, Beryl lifted a face white as an annunciation lily, drenched by tropical rain.

  15. A strange shivering thrill shot along his nerves, and his quiet, well regulated heart so long the docile obedient motor, fettered vassal of his will, bounded, strained hard on the steel cable that held it in thrall.

  16. Mrs. Singleton sponged her forehead with iced water, and by degrees the convulsive shivering became less violent.

  17. They stood side by side, yet she shrank farther, and kept her face averted, shivering perceptibly.

  18. The terrible strain gave way suddenly, her proud head was laid against his arm, and suppressed emotion shook her, as a December storm smites and bows some shivering weed.

  19. Thanks, for your clearness of diction, your perspicuity which leaves no cobweb of misty doubt wherewith to drape my shivering moral deformity!

  20. However that may have been, Dick, looking around him, had the shivering sense of having just escaped from danger.

  21. Dick had darted into the house, and was now sitting beside Emmeline, who was shivering and holding the child, which had awakened at the sound of the thunder.

  22. Against this grey and indescribably sombre background stood the smouldering ship with the breeze already shivering in her sails, and the smoke from her main-hatch blowing and beckoning as if to the retreating boats.

  23. Holly standeth in ye house When that Noël draweth near; Evermore at ye door Standeth Ivy, shivering sore, In ye night wind bleak and drear.

  24. Come then, O day of warm heart-cheer, Make glad the waste and waning year, While old December shivering goes To rest beneath the drifted snows!

  25. She crept to her bed and sat shivering gently, holding fast her treasured blooms.

  26. My mother took him up, shivering with cold.

  27. I'm shivering yet with the excitement; just feel my hand, will you, Giraffe?

  28. At sight of that deathlike face, the limp, shivering man pulled himself together with all his weary might.

  29. The old spinster, lamp in hand, leaned shivering over it.

  30. You are still shivering like an old woman with the palsy.

  31. But at the thought of it he moved his hands gratefully over his sides, which now were dry, and soft, and smooth; slightly chilled on the surface perhaps, for he felt a sudden tremor of shivering from the warm contact of his hands.

  32. She pursued her way into the gloom, bending, though there was no need, shivering at the coarse feel of the seaweed beneath her naked feet.

  33. She could not answer Siegmund's question, but lay clasped against him, shivering away her last chill as his warmth invaded her.

  34. Pinkey waited, shivering in a corner, while Chook did the buying.

  35. But Miss Perkins (whom she had found shivering and hungry on the doorstep as she was going to bed one night and had taken in without asking questions, as was her habit) guarded Mrs Yabsley's property like a watchdog.

  36. They stood shivering in the cold air, greedy to hear what sensation had come to their very doors.

  37. The door swung wide, with creak and din; A blast of cold night-air came in, And on the threshold shivering stood An aged man, with cloak and hood.

  38. It is keen and frosty without; and her eldest boy has just come home from his work, shivering with cold.

  39. It was a bleak winter morning, and the muffled passengers hurried shivering on their way.

  40. There had been two desperately unhappy marriages, and a shivering and scattering of two sets of household gods; and yet he and she, through whatever misunderstandings and scruples, had failed to set up their new structure on the ruins.

  41. On this occasion Orion lost every scrap of nerve he possessed, and fell flat down upon the sanded floor of the arena, shivering and crying painfully.

  42. Little Orion, shivering in his queer circus dress, was glad of this, and a faint degree of returning courage came into his heart.

  43. No cup of cold water for this thirsty soul; no spark of charity to warm this shivering child of the Covenant.

  44. After the midday meal everyone crawled out into the sunlight, standing in little shivering groups, while Monet played upon his violin.

  45. He rose to his feet, shivering until his teeth chattered.

  46. Fred wrapped himself in a blanket and sat half shivering in the gloom.

  47. He felt that he was even more forbidding than on that night when he had sent Brauer shivering from his presence.

  48. They were looming high above him now; the roaring of the breakers swelled in his ears, in his soul, dazing him, appalling him, poor shivering mite of life that he was.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shivering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ache; aching; agitated; ague; aspen; chilblain; chill; chilling; chilly; chorea; cold; cool; creeps; fidgety; fluttery; freezing; frostbite; frozen; jactitation; jumpy; palsied; palsy; quaking; quavering; quivering; shake; shakes; shaking; shaky; shiver; shivering; shivery; shuddering; spasm; timorous; trembling; tremulous; twitchy; vibrating; vibration; wobbly