23 examples of shivery in sentences

Somehow, as we went forward, a sense of the silent loneliness and desertion of the old garden grew upon me, and I felt shivery.

I felt cold and shivery.

Certain paragraphs that came from you hot are now patched and shivery.

" "Well, I've had enough of spooks to last me forever," said Laura, with a shivery glance over her shoulder as the boys left the girls at their door and started off down the hall.

Each of them wore a shivery bit of shawl, in which their hands were folded, as if to keep them warm.

She read The Explorer, fascinated in a shivery, uncanny way by the first line, as though a ghostly voice were whispering to her from the black corners of the cave: "There's no sense in going furtherit's the edge of cultivation."

As for Tom, though of a shivery disposition, he would have dithered to death before admitting that a bedroom fire might increase his comfort.

Adj. brittle, brash [U.S.], breakable, weak, frangible, fragile, frail, gimcrack^, shivery, fissile; splitting &c v.; lacerable^, splintery, crisp, crimp, short, brittle as glass.

Adj. powdery, pulverulent^, granular, mealy, floury, farinaceous, branny^, furfuraceous^, flocculent, dusty, sandy, sabulous^, psammous^; arenose^, arenarious^, arenaceous^; gritty, efflorescent, impalpable; lentiginous^, lepidote^, sabuline^; sporaceous^, sporous^. pulverizable; friable, crumbly, shivery; pulverized &c v.; attrite^; in pieces.

'Yes, I must go in nowI am getting shivery,' answered the old man, meekly.

'He was so chilly and shivery this afternoon that I was obliged to light a fire,' said Mrs. Steadman.

He bubbled in shivery delight with the first frigid sting of the downpour; he laughed in ecstasy as he pulled the valve wide open, inviting a Niagara.

I had that shivery feeling chasing up and down my spine which came from knowing that I was covered by a hundred rifles, and that if I made a move which seemed suspicious to the men behind those rifles, they would instantly transform me into a sieve.

" "Yes, it makes me shivery to think of," ejaculated Mrs. Robinson; "but mother really has extraordinary nerve.

It was shivery work!

My dear E, Though rushing, rapid rivers roar between us (if you refer to the map of England, I think you'll find that to be correct), we still remember each other, and feel a sort of shivery affection for each other....

What have you been doing these weeks, these months, that you should be so shivery and so thin?

I'll land you and your friend in Mudros Bay if I can, and if I have other orders I'll tranship you.' Feeling very shivery and tired, Ken was escorted below to the genial warmth of the engine-room, where he found Dave already changed, and engaged in putting away a great mugful of hot Navy cocoa.

But everything comes to an end at last, and, after having seen Bubbles put to bed, Dr. Panton turned his attention to Donnington, and he did not leave his second patient till the young man felt, if still shivery and queer, fairly comfortable in bed.

I'm all shivery with delight, already.

He was too frightened and shivery and creepy to sleep.

Except for the fact that he would play awfully shivery music at all hours of the night, I was glad to have him.

Makes me shivery, like, jest to think of it now.

23 examples of  shivery  in sentences