How to Use quiver in a Sentence

quiver

1 of 2 noun

• Now, the clip is an arrow in the quiver of the truth-denying nihilists.
  — Time, 14 Jan. 2023
• Speaking of which, here are seven of the best knives to keep in your blade quiver.
  — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 5 Oct. 2023
• The skies were ablaze with disorder that night, the planets aghast in a quiver.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2022
• At times, multiple fish would thrash and quiver along the rocks.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2023
• In fact, these boots can become a one-pair quiver for all of your winter needs.
  — Maggie Slepian, Travel + Leisure, 9 Feb. 2024
• And that’s where the third new arrow in the quiver comes in: Electric bicycles.
  — Bill Roberson, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
• What a wonderful thing to have in your quiver of arrows.
  — Vulture, 17 July 2023
• Designed for waist-to-head-high surf, this is a one-board quiver if there ever was one.
  — Zander Morton, Outside Online, 27 May 2022
• The camera creeps ever closer to Kessell as the muscles of her face quiver with stress.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 6 May 2023
• Just the thought of the Backwoods Barbie herself strolling out onto the main stage is enough to make your heart quiver.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 7 Jan. 2022
• The person who fills a quiver full with them is truly happy!
  — Olivia Muenter, Woman's Day, 9 May 2023
• Now and then, the very space around him quivers in response, as if his tremors of conscience were giving off shock waves.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 20 July 2023
• His John Wick was a savage badass looking into the abyss…with a quiver of decency.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 Mar. 2023
• There’s no reason to be afraid of getting your first one, or of building a quiver full of specialized tools.
  — Pete Robbins, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
• 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
• One or two layers can’t possibly provide the comfort and safety that a quiver of them will.
  — Abigail Barronian, Outside Online, 11 Mar. 2023
• Guests can use a quiver of surfboards by local shaper Wax Surf Co., and hammocks are strung on every balcony.
  — Lindsay Talbot, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2021
• Don’t forget about color when building up your quiver of henley shirts.
  — Todd Plummer, Robb Report, 28 Dec. 2022
• His fabulous furry hat, for example, came from a brown bear, while his quiver leather was from a roe deer.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 18 Aug. 2016
• But then, this is just one more arrow in the quiver of antireality used by people like Mike Adams.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2010
• As third options go, a college football team could do a lot worse than having Chris Autman-Bell in its quiver.
  — Randy Johnson, Star Tribune, 22 Oct. 2020
• Tutoring is not a silver bullet, more like one arrow in a quiver.
  — oregonlive, 23 Nov. 2022
• Part of the engine's good nature is its silky smoothness: The Saab sixteen-valve never emits a coarse quiver or a discordant grind.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 2 Apr. 2023
• But the strongest economic arrow in its quiver wouldn’t do much damage.
  — Stephen G. Brooks, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2023
• Think of whiskey as another piece of gear in your quiver, a tool used to lighten the mood, provide perspective, maybe even slow things down and give you a chance to catch your breath.
  — Outside Online, 31 May 2021
• For most adventurers, side-by-sides haven’t been part of the typical outdoor quiver.
  — Outside Online, 11 Dec. 2020
• This short arm holds the hook and a soft-plastic lure, and the idea is to keep this rig shaking in place, allowing the lure to dance and quiver, until a non-committal fish decides to strike.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 9 Jan. 2023
• And Borgo San Felice has another new arrow to its quiver.
  — Lee Marshall, Travel + Leisure, 1 May 2021
• While retaining the angelic quiver of her voice, Twigs swaps the starkness of her previous work for abundance.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2022
• The armor was equipped with a wooden quiver holding arrows, a bow and a sword, archaeologists said.
  — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2024

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quiver

2 of 2 verb

• Her lips quivered when she heard the bad news.
• The bird quivered, seemed to doze for a minute, and took flight.
  — The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2023
• By five o’clock, my voice would have a quivering to it.
  — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 8 Mar. 2023
• 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
• Maybe they are destined for a quivering leche flan or a quick-to-vanish cupcake.
  — Ligaya Mishan Melody Melamed, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2023
• 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
• On very rough roads, the cowl does quiver noticeably when the two ends of the car are twisted in opposite directions, but the RX-7 keeps its tires nicely planted.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 11 Aug. 2023
• To strangers, Pitt’s a quivering ball of curmudgeonly scorn, but to his owners, he’s been a source of solace and humor throughout the war.
  — Yutao Chen, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
• The Florida teen rapper has been making a name for himself in rap with his witty bars and quivering flow.
  — Cydney Lee, Billboard, 28 Aug. 2023
• Research shows that healthy fatty acids may decrease the risk of abnormal heartbeats called arrhythmias, which can cause parts of the heart to quiver and lose function.
  — Bethany Thayer, Detroit Free Press, 12 Aug. 2023
• To me this is a silly question asked by old quivering misers and answered with a roaring NO by their doom-gurus.
  — Clem Chambers, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
• His Orin, though, is a villain straight out of Cartoon Network, all burgundy pompadour and quivering jowl.
  — Sophia Nguyen, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024
• Winslet wears the weight of that emotion in her face, which quivers as her character processes unseen and unknown (to us) traumas.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Sep. 2023
• Stella didn’t use masking tape on his paintings, and his lines often quiver; Pape’s prints bear the organic nature of her materials — the grain of wood and the grain of paper.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2023
• The queen reinvented herself in response, allowing her upper lip to quiver a little.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2022
• 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
• While the crowd rang out with applause at the presentation of each award, less delighted with the cannons was April, a small white dog, who was still quivering minutes after the final blast.
  — Ivy Scott, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Apr. 2023
• After hitting record highs at the start of the year, the market began to quiver in fear of the coronavirus pandemic in February and deepened its selloff in March as lockdown measures took hold across the Unites States.
  — Anneken Tappe, CNN, 31 Dec. 2020
• Part of the credit for that has to go to Ludwig Göransson’s magnificent score, which quivers and rumbles throughout, building and building the same way that Nolan’s narrative does.
  — Vulture, 27 July 2023
• Rapid, erratic heart signals cause the lower heart chambers to quiver uselessly instead of pumping blood.
  — Christopher Desimone, M.d., Ph.d. Mayo Foundation For Medical Education and Research, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2023
• In cardiac arrest, the heart quivers with uncoordinated contractions, and the blood flow to every part of the body — including the brain — ceases.
  — Theresa Tamkins, NBC News, 14 Sep. 2023
• Nancy Iskander sobbed at the memory, her voice quivering.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2024
• The butterflies enter first, quivering gaily atop their sticks.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023
• There are the quivering antennas of honeybees, and the fidgeting fists of kangaroos.
  — Amanda Gefter, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2023
• But his in-box still quivers with hopeful pitches, the subject lines full of affected confidence and casualness.
  — Lauren Larson, Men's Health, 7 Sep. 2023
• Jackson’s props, characters, and story were quickly subsumed by the conquering power that is Gwar; absorbed like the quivering flesh of their enemies.
  — Jackson Landers, SPIN, 10 Apr. 2023
• Other pastures carpeted in bluegrass and ringed in miles of blackboard fence contain momma and baby horse pairs, the newborn foals wobbling about, quivering nostrils lifted to catch a passing scent.
  — Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 21 Mar. 2023
• Einstein’s insight led to a new conception of the cosmos, in which space-time could quiver, bend, rip, expand, swirl and even disappear forever into the maw of a black hole, an entity with gravity so strong that not even light could escape it.
  — New York Times, 12 May 2022
• The duet with O’Connor is my favorite rendition: raw, quivering, a little off-kilter, unbearably intimate.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 27 July 2023
• Rea and Nolan are a phenomenal double act, wonderfully sharp as comedians and, when the play takes its turn, suddenly stomach-wrenching as two men reduced to puddles of quivering fear.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2023

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