How to Use judder in a Sentence

judder

verb
  • The cracks had formed as the ice skidded and juddered over a subglacial mountain.
    National Geographic, 13 June 2018
  • Bikes judder around so violently that water bottles jump out of their cages and chains hop off the gears.
    Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 13 July 2018
  • As the train juddered through the Bulgarian countryside, Javed, fighting a mild fever, lay on his back and went over his plans.
    Matthew Wolfe, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
  • Sometimes blue neon lights would judder along to her beat, but mostly the images (shot by Frances Arpaia) were smeary, underwater, car-window dreams.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 17 June 2021
  • The crime-scene van was parked next to the black Honda Civic already identified as belonging to the shooter, the yellow tape marking its perimeter juddering in a helicopter gust.
    Jay Kirk, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Many copulating pairs engage in a juddering movement—tap-dancing with eight or more legs.
    Constance Casey, Slate Magazine, 14 Aug. 2017
  • The hooker ended up hurting himself as a result of his bone-juddering hit on Artemyev but Samoa was again reprieved as Matu'u was also only shown a yellow.
    Ben Church, CNN, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Trump allies seized on Mueller's at times juddering performance, tweeting out a range of derogatory assessments, ranging from the critical to the cruel.
    Author: Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey, Anchorage Daily News, 25 July 2019
  • No screens, no juddering technology or buffering, no contending with the distracting horror of your own disembodied face.
    Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2020
  • In particular, the GMC’s adaptive-damping suspension felt a little behind, failing to contain transient wheel juddering after hitting uneven surface.
    Dan Neil, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2018
  • Only with the juddering transition to democracy could Russia begin the gradual acquisition of collective self-knowledge.
    Christian Caryl, New Republic, 27 Oct. 2017
  • If Veldhoven vanished tomorrow, our version of capitalism—our cellphone-toting, remote-working, Netflix-binging, online-buying, cloud-storing, smart car-driving, Internet-of-Things-ing capitalism—would judder to a halt.
    Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 9 Apr. 2021
  • The cracks had formed as the ice skidded and juddered over a subglacial mountain.
    National Geographic, 13 June 2018
  • Bikes judder around so violently that water bottles jump out of their cages and chains hop off the gears.
    Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 13 July 2018
  • As the train juddered through the Bulgarian countryside, Javed, fighting a mild fever, lay on his back and went over his plans.
    Matthew Wolfe, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
  • Sometimes blue neon lights would judder along to her beat, but mostly the images (shot by Frances Arpaia) were smeary, underwater, car-window dreams.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 17 June 2021
  • The crime-scene van was parked next to the black Honda Civic already identified as belonging to the shooter, the yellow tape marking its perimeter juddering in a helicopter gust.
    Jay Kirk, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Many copulating pairs engage in a juddering movement—tap-dancing with eight or more legs.
    Constance Casey, Slate Magazine, 14 Aug. 2017
  • The hooker ended up hurting himself as a result of his bone-juddering hit on Artemyev but Samoa was again reprieved as Matu'u was also only shown a yellow.
    Ben Church, CNN, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Trump allies seized on Mueller's at times juddering performance, tweeting out a range of derogatory assessments, ranging from the critical to the cruel.
    Author: Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey, Anchorage Daily News, 25 July 2019
  • No screens, no juddering technology or buffering, no contending with the distracting horror of your own disembodied face.
    Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2020
  • In particular, the GMC’s adaptive-damping suspension felt a little behind, failing to contain transient wheel juddering after hitting uneven surface.
    Dan Neil, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2018
  • Only with the juddering transition to democracy could Russia begin the gradual acquisition of collective self-knowledge.
    Christian Caryl, New Republic, 27 Oct. 2017
  • If Veldhoven vanished tomorrow, our version of capitalism—our cellphone-toting, remote-working, Netflix-binging, online-buying, cloud-storing, smart car-driving, Internet-of-Things-ing capitalism—would judder to a halt.
    Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 9 Apr. 2021

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