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
  • First, make a ukulele that can both move and vibrate on a bed of grass.
    — Alida Nugent, Peoplemag, 10 Apr. 2024
  • The red vibrates off the page in such a pleasing way.
    — Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 11 Dec. 2025
  • The chants were so loud that the car windows seemed to vibrate.
    — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Tefi was vibrating when the news broke.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 14 June 2026
  • Vests will light up or vibrate to let a player know when they’ve been hit.
    — Stephanie Jarrett, chicagotribune.com, 11 Apr. 2021
  • All mobile devices must be set to silent or vibrate at all times.
    — Andrew Mahoney, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2022
  • The whole place was vibrating from the power of the storm.
    — MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
  • My car vibrates at 50 miles per hour and higher.
    — John Paul, The Providence Journal, 7 Feb. 2026
  • The waterbed would vibrate to the rhythm of the music.
    — Hannah Dylan Pasternak, SELF, 17 Feb. 2026
  • There isn’t a cloud in the sky, and my phone has only vibrated twice.
    — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 28 June 2024
  • The broad, flat sides will vibrate easily and project sound very well.
    — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2021
  • Even the bathrooms down the hall vibrated with rhythm.
    — Kelsey Stewart, Vogue, 17 Feb. 2026
  • My jaw stopped clacking and my body stopped vibrating.
    — Bill Shaber, Outdoor Life, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Then the controllers tried vibrating the drill to knock the rock loose and had no luck.
    — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 7 May 2026
  • 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
  • There is a high whistling sound of wind rushing through the room, and the glass vibrates slightly.
    — Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Does hitting a person vibrate a car enough for driver to feel it?
    — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2018
  • Instead, the sleeve of your shirt, suit jacket or dress will glow, blink or vibrate with alerts.
    — Ray A. Smith, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2020
  • Whenever one rings, the very air seems to vibrate, as if a shock wave has passed through the house.
    — Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
  • There was the sense that the vibrating craft was an extension of my limbs.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Bass notes on the electric organ made the ground under our feet seem to vibrate.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Then a storm came and the gazebo started vibrating in the breeze.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 28 July 2019
  • With every pluck, the strings seem to vibrate in the air in front of you, blurring like bees’ wings.
    — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 4 June 2026
  • If the parent is needed, the device will vibrate and light up.
    — Erik S. Hanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 May 2018
  • The thing vibrates in a way that wouldn’t be allowed in German cars.
    — Kevin Sintumuang, Esquire, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Elements defy mode that vibrates the car to shed dust and dirt.
    — Mark Phelan, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Elements defy mode that vibrates the car to shed dust and dirt.
    — Mark Phelan, Freep.com, 14 Aug. 2025

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