shudder

Object

• halt: Now MS seemed to have brought his life to a shuddering halt.
• climax: The week came to its shuddering climax with President Bush's speech to the UN General Assembly.
• breath: A few minutes later the calf struggled into the world, took one first shuddering breath, closely followed by its last.

Preposition: down

• spine: The word alone was calculated to send a shudder down the spine of any honest 19th century worker.

Preposition: at

• thought: I shudder at the thought of a bleeding liberal like Kerry in office.
• sight: Which town has left you shuddering at the sight of gray estates stretching out into the distance?
• memory: We only wanted to do it as a Robin Hood type of thing. ' The singer shudders at the memory.

Adjective modifier

• slight: The world suddenly finds itself in an utterly new situation, vulnerable to the slightest shudder, for which few are prepared.
• cold: Those of you of " a certain age " may have a little cold shudder at the name Nancekuke.

Converse of object

• send: The word alone was calculated to send a shudder down the spine of any honest 19th century worker.
• feel: Thorne felt a shudder pass through him at the thought.
• bring: But of course there's one more twist in the tale, designed to bring a final shudder to the audience.
• cause: Attacks that might have caused economic shudders only a few years ago have almost no impact today.

Modifying Another Word

• slightly: For long the two enemies looked at one another; Hook shuddering slightly, and Peter with the strange smile upon his face.
• still: I still shudder at the sound of the Stukas ' sirens whenever I see them on film.
• again: Philip said he hoped so, too; and that made me shudder again.

Used with why or when

• when: But I still shudder when I think of it: I thought I should have died when our eyes met!

Infinitive complement

• think: I shudder to think what the others are like.
• imagine: What sort of jet they could produce, or for how long, I shudder to imagine.

Preposition: with

• horror: One can only shudder with horror to think what these children would have gone through.