Shivering is an English word with synonyms like shaky or trembling. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Shivering meaning
present participle and gerund of shiver
Using Shivering
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of shiver
- Useful related words include: shaky, trembling, unsteady, chill.
- In the example corpus, shivering often appears in combinations such as: shivering in, and shivering, the shivering.
Context around Shivering
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 6 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Shivering
- In this selection, "shivering" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, kept, now, spine, stopped, songs and fares stand out and add context to how "shivering" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a m shivering together and and the shivering stopped. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "shivering" sits close to words such as abducting, accentuate and accomplishes, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with shivering
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I added two more layers and the shivering stopped. (9 words)
It wasn’t the cold, I wasn’t shivering. (9 words)
Andrew said: “Monty was whimpering and shivering, he was in a bad state. (13 words)
In a clip shared by Jackman, the ripped and shivering 55-year-old took the term ‘refresh’ literally, offering words of support to fans ahead of 2024 before diving into what appears to be a nippy California beach. (38 words)
But now here he was, shivering in a cold garage in the Midwest, looking for anything he could find to help him make sounds that would make people think, and feel. (31 words)
But perhaps they should care more about thousands of pensioners in the north and north-east who are shivering for real after winter domestic energy benefits were axed so brutally. (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
And now she kept shivering, but she wasn’t sure anymore if it was a real impulse or if she was performing in the ways he wanted her to.
But it was far too shallow – he bumped his head and lost his glasses and was now shivering.
I added two more layers and the shivering stopped.
On Sunday morning, they woke up shivering from the biting wind and decided to return to their third-floor apartment, thinking that the temblors were finally over.
Shivering, the body's natural attempt to warm itself, is a first sign of hypothermia.
The Indigenous Songwriters Circle played together during the Shivering Songs music festival, which took place in Fredericton from Jan.
This latest horror outing by Itois chocked full of his trademark spine-shivering fares -- even if it features some hit-or-miss, less-than-stellar stories.
Welcome donations of a ‘shivering bite’ to the swimmers, with favourites including a shortbread round, were sometimes made.
As he waded towards the beach, shivering in 6ft of water, his commanding officer shouted, “Give us Highland Laddie, man”.
But now here he was, shivering in a cold garage in the Midwest, looking for anything he could find to help him make sounds that would make people think, and feel.
But perhaps they should care more about thousands of pensioners in the north and north-east who are shivering for real after winter domestic energy benefits were axed so brutally.
In a clip shared by Jackman, the ripped and shivering 55-year-old took the term ‘refresh’ literally, offering words of support to fans ahead of 2024 before diving into what appears to be a nippy California beach.
In recent weeks it has been pounding Ukraine's electricity grid, in what Western and Ukrainian officials describe as an attempt to leave the country shivering during the winter.
It wasn’t the cold, I wasn’t shivering.
One day I’m soaking up the sun in shorts; the next day I’m shivering and bundling up.
Residents of Sterling Heights, they’ve been sitting in the car since 4:45 a.m., shivering together.
The woman was found approximately two kilometers offshore, physically weak and shivering from the cold.
Wife Linda found him shivering in an armchair wearing only underpants and a t-shirt in a room with all the windows open while it was snowing outside.
Andrew said: “Monty was whimpering and shivering, he was in a bad state.
By mile 20, she was shivering uncontrollably, and had to stop going to receive treatment for hypothermia.
Common combinations with shivering
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- shivering in 9×
- and shivering 8×
- the shivering 6×
- shivering and 6×
- was shivering 4×
- shivering from 3×
- now shivering 2×
- up shivering 2×
- shivering the 2×
- shivering through 2×