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Examples of quiver in a Sentence
Nathan Borchelt, Travel + Leisure, 30 Nov. 2023
McGill is an extraordinary player, with a quiver of skills and a palette of colors that only buttress what is a singular sensibility toward his instrument.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2024
Lynn Reaser, economist YES: The return of the pandas will be another quiver tourist officials will have in their arrow kit to sponsor San Diego.
—Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2024
In fact, these boots can become a one-pair quiver for all of your winter needs.
—Maggie Slepian, Travel + Leisure, 9 Feb. 2024
The armor was equipped with a wooden quiver holding arrows, a bow and a sword, archaeologists said.
—Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2024
Birdsong flicks and flutters in the air and her eyes follow it, darting side to side, blinking and rolling with every tiny quiver in the melody.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 25 Jan. 2024
The most recent is the RS 6 Avant GT, the most potent arrow in Audi’s quiver and the final model in the RS 6 Avant lineage, the fourth series of which was launched in 2019.
—Robert Ross, Robb Report, 6 Feb. 2024
But what? Animals, according to somatic therapists, tremble and quiver to discharge stress.
—Rachel Sherman Lanna Apisukh, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023
Margaret Farrell, SPIN, 4 Apr. 2024
The curry is thickened with enough egg to transform it into a quivering custard that capitulates at the slightest touch of your spoon.
—Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
His Orin, though, is a villain straight out of Cartoon Network, all burgundy pompadour and quivering jowl.
—Sophia Nguyen, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024
But has the final stretch of a movie ever leaned so heavily on the quivering chin of one actor?
—Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2024
What of the quivering ears and palpitating throats that cause ear-splitting sonic vibrations and juddering visuals, prompting time-loop repetitions?
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2024
Nancy Iskander sobbed at the memory, her voice quivering.
—Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2024
But the actors who haunt the Edge of Hell and the Beast have only one goal: to reduce us to quivering blobs of fear.
—Robert Trussell, Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2024
Heart rates in this range are often caused by ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation, which are potentially lethal heart rhythms resulting from the lower chamber of the heart beating too quickly or quivering.
—Virginia Singla, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2023
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“Quiver.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quiver. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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quiver
1 of 3 noun
quiver
3 of 3 nounNoun
Middle English quiver "a case for carrying arrows," from early French quivre (same meaning); of Germanic origin
Verb
Middle English quiveren "to quiver," probably from quiver "agile, quick"
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