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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of shudder.

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Examples

  • When Jamrkan heard these words, the ears of his heart were opened; his skin shuddered with horripilation and he said, O my lord, what shall I say that

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The airplane shuddered from the movement of the heavy control surfaces.

    The Crash of EgyptAir 990 2001

  • The airplane shuddered from the movement of the heavy control surfaces.

    The Crash of EgyptAir 990 2001

  • Mary smiled, but the word shuddered in her throat like a weary moan.

    The Three Sisters May Sinclair 1904

  • Edwin shuddered; and Wallace, letting the shroud fall over the face, added, "Never more will I look at it, for it no longer wears the characters of my friend – they are pictured on my soul; and himself, my Edwin, still effulgent in beauty, and glowing with imperishable life, looks down on us from heaven!"

    The Scottish Chiefs 1875

  • Now when I heard, O peahen, the ass’s words, my skin shuddered, and became as gooseflesh at the son of Adam; and I said to the lion whelp, ‘O my lord, the ass of a verity hath excuse and his words add terror to my terror.’

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The golem lowered an arm and the sword shuddered against metal with a mighty clang that set the whole of Malador's body quaking.

    The Weird Of The White Wolf Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1977

  • The golem lowered an arm and the sword shuddered against metal with a mighty clang that set the whole of Malador's body quaking.

    The Weird of the White Wolf Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1977

  • Those who opposed the idea shuddered at the thought of making over to a Romanist Power (?) the poor converts of Protestantism; the peoples who had been peaceful and happy so long under the protecting aegis of Great Britain; the races whom we were bound, by an unwritten contract, not only to defend, but to civilise, to advance in the paths of progress.

    To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • The door hissed shut and the barrista kind of shuddered all over and went "Oh my GOD oh my GOD oh my GOD!!!!" and squealed for a while and jumped up and down.

    Sharon Stone is the Public Enemy of All Mankind, Apparently « Skid Roche 2008

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