Sentence examples for quivering dread from inspiring English sources

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I watched a fireman called Dornhoeffer, his heroic surname printed in large letters on the tail of his treated coat, put himself into character as a first-responder brought to quivering dread by the horror of it all.

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Do you quiver with dread at the sight of a new piece of equipment or machinery, which you not only need to turn on but actually have to use? Have you given up all hope of working out how to programme the video machine?

It's a sight that fills parents with dread: the quivering bottom lip and the welling tears that mean a toddler is on the cusp of having a full-scale meltdown.

As the scale of your cock-up sinks in, you feel a cold egg of dread being cracked open over your skull, its chilled albumen seeping down your temples, the icy yolk quivering atop your crown like the frozen cherry on a tortured metaphor.

Quivering slightly.

My legs stopped quivering.

Hanging objects quivering.

quivering balances and skittering muscles.

The woodwork stayed quivering.

I was actually quivering.

The erect, quivering nipple.

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