How to Use quiver in a Sentence

quiver

1 of 2 noun
  • Not a quiver in his lips, yet his frown growing.
    — Noah White, Miami Herald, 3 Dec. 2025
  • At times, multiple fish would thrash and quiver along the rocks.
    — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2023
  • His voice was low in her ears, sending a quiver dancing up and down her spine.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Speaking of which, here are seven of the best knives to keep in your blade quiver.
    — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 5 Oct. 2023
  • In fact, these boots can become a one-pair quiver for all of your winter needs.
    — Maggie Slepian, Travel + Leisure, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Now, the clip is an arrow in the quiver of the truth-denying nihilists.
    — Time, 14 Jan. 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 skies were ablaze with disorder that night, the planets aghast in a quiver.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Even the aerial shots have the jiggle and quiver of a helicopter, not a drone.
    — Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Even the aerial shots have the jiggle and quiver of a helicopter, not a drone.
    — Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Don’t forget about color when building up your quiver of henley shirts.
    — Todd Plummer, Robb Report, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Tutoring is not a silver bullet, more like one arrow in a quiver.
    — oregonlive, 23 Nov. 2022
  • The camera creeps ever closer to Kessell as the muscles of her face quiver with stress.
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 6 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
  • But the strongest economic arrow in its quiver wouldn’t do much damage.
    — Stephen G. Brooks, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 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
  • 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
  • Shaggy was holding a squishy ball between his knees and pumping his arms up and down, making his whole body quiver.
    — Natalie Meade, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
  • 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
  • This versatile mobile gear closet is light enough for short trips yet spacious enough for overseas stays with the quiver in tow.
    — Outside, 13 Nov. 2025
  • For most adventurers, side-by-sides haven’t been part of the typical outdoor quiver.
    — Outside Online, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Fast-forward a decade or more, and the brand is back in my quiver of reusable water bottles with its stainless steel style.
    — Clay Abney, Travel + Leisure, 20 Oct. 2025
  • One arrow in this marine quiver is the use of aircraft to patrol over vast distances while dropping sonobuoys to seek out subs.
    — New Atlas, 18 Jan. 2026
  • See the word snow in its pages and quiver with either childhood delight or curmudgeonly grumbling.
    — Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2021
  • His John Wick was a savage badass looking into the abyss…with a quiver of decency.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 Mar. 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
  • 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
  • Colleges and universities have new tools in their arsenal, new arrows in their quiver.
    — David Rosowsky, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • Here’s the latest bike gear, trail runners, and hiking essentials that earned a permanent spot in our quiver.
    — The Editors, Outside, 28 Aug. 2025
  • And there are a number of other arrows in the quiver that are incredibly important.
    — Alan Murray, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2022

quiver

2 of 2 verb
  • Her lips quivered when she heard the bad news.
  • His lips would quiver in exactly the same way.
    — Literary Hub, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Her papers quivered in her hand.
    — Tanya Babbar, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 June 2026
  • There’s a breathless mood in the air that quivers and quakes at the protests to come.
    — Sara Stridsberg september 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The child had jumped at the sting, her bottom lip quivering.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Mar. 2026
  • For a moment, the plane quivered around them like a greyhound straining on a leash.
    — Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Each time, brown leaves that had drifted from distant trees quivered and spun on the surface.
    — Literary Hub, 11 June 2026
  • Even now, there are moments during presentations when my voice still quivers.
    — Michelle De Almeida, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • The music of home often quivers with nostalgia.
    — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Within minutes, revellers were gasping for breath; their nostrils quivered, their lips turned blue.
    — Taran Dugal, New Yorker, 23 May 2026
  • Plume-like cypress trees quiver along curvaceous paths, walled in rustic local sandstone and concrete.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Maggie could see how the soles of her feet strained against the stirrups, her pale fists grinding into the platform, knuckles first and elbows quivering.
    — Literary Hub, 8 May 2026
  • Those of us without earplugs stupidly massaged our jaws, heads tilted, eyelids quivering, listening to overtones through our teeth.
    — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Audiences are already quivering with anticip— ation.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Danes is a four-time Golden Globe winner who brought her quivering lower lip to bear on the role of an author who thinks her next-door neighbor killed his wife.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Few things shake the confidence of a person like crawling to the top bunk of a quivering bed frame, your feet wrapping uncomfortably along the frail metal rungs of the ladder.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Johnston plays poor Bear as a quivering mess wracked with guilt that this monster — who used to be his friend — is the result of his own terrible decision-making.
    — Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 23 May 2026
  • Located on the street level of the Harbor Boulevard complex, the new shop gives dessert-loving denizens another place to pick up the quivering treat.
    — Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 26 May 2026
  • In the 1970s, James Lovelock proposed that the biosphere was not just green scruff quivering on Earth's surface.
    — Big Think, 23 Apr. 2026
  • A-fib is an irregular, quivering or often rapid heart rhythm resulting from the heart’s upper chambers, the atria, beating out of sync with the lower chambers, the ventricles.
    — Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The mesmerizing evolution reaches its peak when a quivering guitar solo jettisons into view.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 26 Feb. 2026
  • For Lusti, the highwire act has less to do with skiing over exposure that would turn the rest of us into quivering piles of jello and more to do with learning when her time outdoors stops being a refuge and starts being a hiding place.
    — Outside Online, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Over the years, Andrews has garnered comparisons to fellow Arizona native Linda Ronstadt for her rich, clear tone, which can modulate from quivering vibrato to crystalline belt on a dime.
    — Lily Goldberg, Pitchfork, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Risk factors for cardiac arrest A frequent trigger is rhythm disturbance—especially ventricular fibrillation—in which the heart quivers instead of beating effectively.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Facta and Tamaranamen both turn Two Shell tunes into cutesy, Dntel-adjacent electronica, the former’s low-end reinforced with a rough-around-the-edges-bassline and the latter with a quivering lead that sounds like a music box.
    — Andrew Ryce, Pitchfork, 12 Jan. 2026

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