How to Use vibrate in a Sentence

vibrate

verb

• The car started to vibrate.
• When you blow into the instrument, the air vibrates the reed.
• The kind of tired where your face vibrates and your eyes throb.
  — Lyz Lenz, Glamour, 26 Nov. 2018
• The chants were so loud that the car windows seemed to vibrate.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
• First, make a ukulele that can both move and vibrate on a bed of grass.
  — Alida Nugent, Peoplemag, 10 Apr. 2024
• The city seemed to be vibrating with the mere knowledge of B’s presence in the GTA.
  — Hazlitt, 19 July 2023
• The system is set up so that the ear closest to the source of the sound will vibrate most strongly.
  — Joshua Sokol, The Atlantic, 30 May 2017
• The thing vibrates in a way that wouldn’t be allowed in German cars.
  — Kevin Sintumuang, Esquire, 21 Sep. 2017
• There isn’t a cloud in the sky, and my phone has only vibrated twice.
  — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 28 June 2024
• Then a storm came and the gazebo started vibrating in the breeze.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 28 July 2019
• At one point, the sky started to vibrate, and the edges glowed violet and green.
  — New York Times, 23 Apr. 2021
• In other words, the show could stand to ease on down more and vibrate madly a bit less.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2023
• Vests will light up or vibrate to let a player know when they’ve been hit.
  — Stephanie Jarrett, chicagotribune.com, 11 Apr. 2021
• First the snake can vibrate its tail to mimic a rattlesnake.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 15 Aug. 2022
• In the midst of the tranquil scene, my phone began to vibrate with texts, tweets, and LinkedIn messages.
  — Thea Lee, Cosmopolitan, 21 Aug. 2017
• The watch will vibrate when the session starts, and then again two minutes later when the time is up.
  — Jason Cipriani, CNN Underscored, 22 Sep. 2020
• There was the sense that the vibrating craft was an extension of my limbs.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
• If the parent is needed, the device will vibrate and light up.
  — Erik S. Hanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 May 2018
• If necessary, the top of the steering wheel will flash red, alerts will sound and the seat vibrates to get the driver to take over.
  — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 29 May 2018
• The broad, flat sides will vibrate easily and project sound very well.
  — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2021
• Use some Thread Locker (blue or red) to keep the bolts from vibrating loose.
  — Jeff Dengate, Popular Mechanics, 14 Aug. 2023
• Some of it is so large that the rings vibrate from the impact for decades, like a bell struck by a cosmic clapper.
  — Robert Lee Hotz, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2017
• Bass notes on the electric organ made the ground under our feet seem to vibrate.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• Instead, the sleeve of your shirt, suit jacket or dress will glow, blink or vibrate with alerts.
  — Ray A. Smith, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2020
• For now, the Levi’s jacket features touch inputs and a tag that blinks and vibrates in sync with your phone.
  — Amy Verner, Vogue, 6 Mar. 2019
• Miyako was on her way to the door when her sleeve vibrated with a different type of alarm.
  — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 8 Dec. 2018
• Polarized light is like streaking a comb through messy hair—all the waves now vibrate in the same plane.
  — Max G. Levy, Wired, 23 June 2021
• And the mother felt the thing that had been vibrating in her for so long cease entirely.
  — Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 9 July 2017
• Materials in the ground will vibrate at different frequencies, as will the soil itself, and these differences are picked up by the laser when it is reflected back to its emitter.
  — Ritsuko Kawai, WIRED, 4 Dec. 2024
• It’s composed of rows of TV monitors arranged into a grid (à la Minimalism) and displaying undulating black-and-white patterns that appear to vibrate (à la Op).
  — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 6 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 24 Feb 2025