verb
definition
To tremble or shake, especially when cold or frightened.
example
They stood outside for hours, shivering in the frosty air.
definition
To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.
verb
definition
To break into splinters or fragments.
noun
definition
The action of a person or thing that shivers; a trembling.
Examples of shivering in a Sentence
She's shivering and she's really upset.
By the time they reached the house, she was shivering and stiff.
She walked out onto the sidewalk, shivering in the cold.
You were soaking wet and shivering like a leaf.
She slid out from under the table and stood, hugging herself and shivering violently as she peered out the kitchen window into the darkness.
She was always there, shivering in the cold.
She crossed her arms, shivering.
He then carried Cynthia Byrne's limp but still drenched and shivering body through the connecting door to her bed and laid her on one of the towels.
She may have been asleep and she may have been a wet shivering mess but, by God, she was still beautiful and the whole procedure was beginning to bother Dean as he tried to be objective to his task.
The shivering grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
Sherpa party found him shivering over a candle part way out of the cave.
She responded, shivering at the energy that fluttered through her when their lips touched.
Gabriel trailed her, resisting the urge to wrap her shivering body in his arms.
His eyes watered, and he shook his head, shivering.
Shivering, she walked until she found a Starbucks and ducked inside.
His eyes found Bianca, who stood shivering in the rain, staring towards the fire, as if waiting for Jonny to reappear.
Shivering, she pulled out her phone to call her father as she made her way towards the street.
She locked the wardrobe, still shivering.
Some time latter she woke, shivering.
Natasha did not reply, nor did she sob any longer, but she grew cold and had a shivering fit.
Often, polio survivors awaken from anesthetic shivering violently.
Then home shivering under the cold, starless sky on Saturday nights, with 9d., 1s., or 1s.
Some children may have reactions to anesthesia or sedation, including headaches, shivering, or vomiting.
She pulled the blanket around her shoulders and curled into a shivering ball, staring through the window into the darkness.
Talon swatted at raindrops ahead of her, and she crossed her arms, shivering.
Darian moved sluggishly towards the shivering woman.
Jule began shivering, and she turned up the heat until it was too hot for her to stand.
Fevered and shivering, she felt too weak and hungry to focus well, but the shape of the black hourglass was unmistakable.
She pushed the door closed and stood, shivering, and gazed at the green glow visible even during daylight.
Suddenly, he thought that she had never looked as beautiful as she did standing drenched and shivering beside the lake.
She pushed it away and crossed her arms, shivering.
Toby was agitated and shivering, skipping up and down the sidewalk while shaking with cold.
Franny had been first on the scene behind Dean, dressed only in panties, her arms covering her tiny breasts, shivering as much at the sight as the chill of the early winter morning.
Dan had given her a jacket, but their slow crawl through the forest had left her soaked and shivering.
Shivering, she began to run again on the trail. She heard the fast moving stream long before she reached it and paused to catch her breath on its bank.
She leaned back against the bluff, shivering.
Mam Tor, or the Shivering Mountain, is made of these shales.
After his return to his native country Houdon executed for the king of Prussia, as a companion to a statue of Summer, La Frileuse, a naif embodiment of shivering cold, which is one of his best as well as one of his best-known works.
He tells of the high position he holds among the Venetians; of the jealousy shown him by some of the meaner sort of native artist; of the honour and wealth in which he might live if he would consent to abandon home for Italy; of the northern winter, and how he knows that after his return it will set him shivering for the south.
Which was why he chose this spot, and she couldn't help shivering at the thought that this place was too perfect for this to be the first time he'd imprisoned someone here.
The public address announcer was almost gleeful in his statement of the obvious to the shivering crowd gathered at Boundary Park.
Over by the telephone boxes, shivering slightly in their torn jeans, the rent boys were gathering.
If you develop vomiting, fever, Headache and shivering you might have sunstroke and should consult your doctor.
This shivering would then turn into a really vicious contraction.
These requests, however, remained unanswered, and the Prussians and Saxons spent the night before the battle shivering in their miserable bivouacs.
With one hand he supported the other; he was pale and his jaw trembled, shivering feverishly.
From pain, cold, and damp, a feverish shivering shook his whole body.
They disappeared into the forest, and Count Orlov-Denisov, having seen Grekov off, returned, shivering from the freshness of the early dawn and excited by what he had undertaken on his own responsibility, and began looking at the enemy camp, now just visible in the deceptive light of dawn and the dying campfires.
One afternoon noticing Natasha shivering with fever, Princess Mary took her to her own room and made her lie down on the bed.
The sherpa party found him shivering over a candle part way out of the cave.