How to Use judder in a Sentence

judder

1 of 2 verb
  • The cracks had formed as the ice skidded and juddered over a subglacial mountain.
    — National Geographic, 13 June 2018
  • Her entire body juddered, as if someone had kicked her, and her eyes drifted shut again.
    — Shuang Xuetao, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • Hers is prose in which sentences judder and disintegrate and run over each other.
    — Book Marks august 28, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Baxter’s carriage is a horse’s head melded onto a juddering steam engine.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Many copulating pairs engage in a juddering movement—tap-dancing with eight or more legs.
    — Constance Casey, Slate Magazine, 14 Aug. 2017
  • 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
  • The cars judder past the fallow fields of late November as day gradually brightens the gray, polluted sky.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Apr. 2016
  • Unfortunately for the would-be lesbian lovers on the run, crazy screaming lady — whose raspy yowl ensnares the listener in a juddering time loop — has other ideas.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 16 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But as the Israeli military began its bombing campaign of Gaza, the building would judder dangerously with every nearby hit.
    — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Only with the juddering transition to democracy could Russia begin the gradual acquisition of collective self-knowledge.
    — Christian Caryl, New Republic, 27 Oct. 2017
  • With phenomenal effects work blending prosthetics, CGI, and even stop-motion animation for some disturbingly juddering creatures, this stands apart from the horror crowd.
    — Wired, WIRED, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Markets have juddered for weeks on the pileup of policy moves and statements by White House officials — some of them contradicting one another over how much, if any, pain consumers should expect from the administration’s changes.
    — Steve Kopack, NBC news, 28 Mar. 2025
  • But the visceral sound design provides plenty of distraction, making the audience feel every clanking industrial noise and juddering movement, every pummeling of turbulence and rocky landing in the pit of their stomachs.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Aug. 2024
  • In these wondrously transporting images of juddering waves and swirling particles, accompanied by the rumbling, surging, keening strains of Ludwig Göransson’s magnificent score, Nolan makes a rare leap into realms of pure cinematic abstraction.
    — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2023
  • 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
  • There’s no denying Gordon’s bona fides (disheveled noise-rocker, riot-grrl signal amplifier, fashion designer, unvarnished solo artist, cultural commentator), but none of that really prepares you for PLAY ME’s jarring, juddering audio verite.
    — Jason Pettigrew, SPIN, 9 Mar. 2026

judder

2 of 2 noun
  • As the plane descends, there’s a lurch and a judder, a sense of doom.
    — Hamilton Cain Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Each new product release sent judders through the stock market.
    — Harry Booth, Time, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Its photos are poorly lit and awkwardly framed; its videos judder and blur.
    — Jody Rosen, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Trucks carrying quartz sand for all this construction judder along the highways.
    — Gaiutra Bahadur Keisha Scarville, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2024
  • But the vast majority of viewers seem to be totally fine with judder.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2025
  • In these clips, the screen judders and blurs, the lights fluttering in a mad blitz, as if this person’s aura can overwhelm the time-space continuum.
    — Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 17 Dec. 2025
  • If about to confront a Detroit-style pothole looming fast, don’t expect a ker-thump as a wheel drops into it, or feel any thudder-judder in the steering.
    — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Ride quality is generally compliant with the standard steel-spring suspension, but there can be some hard hits on rough pavement and some chassis judder with the top down.
    — Mark Maynard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Sep. 2017
  • These monitors typically drop multiple frames at a time rather than creating judder by dropping every other frame.
    — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 2 May 2022
  • There’s an occasional stutter effect on the TCL, more pronounced judder, and more sense of resolution loss from panel blur.
    — John Archer, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
  • Games that support 120Hz frame rates look and feel fantastically smooth and responsive, with no hint of judder, blurring, dithering or any other artefacts.
    — John Archer, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Contrast that with Robert Lewandowski, whose stutter, pause, judder, wait for the ’keeper to dive and then place it wide of the post didn’t work for Barcelona during their surprise defeat away to Sevilla a few hours later.
    — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • For instance, the way judder is handled natively (that is to say, without any processing in play) with 24p content can vary dramatically between different TVs.
    — John Archer, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Cuba has for months been squeezed by an American ban on Venezuelan oil imports to the island, which has quickly spiraled into an energy crisis where blackouts and food shortages are common, and health care and transportation judder to a halt.
    — Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The movie judders from one set piece to another with only a loose plot to follow—the story involves some dead bodies, an evil billionaire (Danny Huston), and a budding romance between Drebin and Beth.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2025
  • Choose a Custom Picture Clarity, though, and set the projector’s judder reduction tool to level one or two, and the digital artefacts and excessive smoothness all fade away, leaving you with a picture that looks clean and cinematic.
    — John Archer, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Sexistential ’s production judders and glitches in ways that call to mind ’80s synth experimentalists such as Art of Noise and the rowdy sample collaging of the Beastie Boys in the ’90s.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Inside the nearly empty Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown LA last Monday afternoon, the air rumbles and judders and roars like a B-52 engine readying for takeoff.
    — Erik Pedersen, Daily News, 30 Apr. 2026

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