• Russia nearly made the points safe when Pavlyuchenko's dipping shot left the Wales crossbar quivering.

    BBC: Wales 1-3 Russia

  • Intelligent, typically confident executives turn into quivering teenagers when they get up on the podium.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • They melt under the heat of the broiler and go down quivering and gooey.

    NEWYORKER: Whitehall

  • That created a column of fire which then detached itself to form a floating, quivering fireball.

    ECONOMIST: Ball lightning

  • John taking unsteady aim-a twist of the wrist and the quivering meniscus breaks.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Woodsburner'

  • Jacott is a one-man study in self-justifying paralysis (the movie's funniest scene is his quivering interview for a video-store job).

    CNN: ENTERTAINMENT

  • Perhaps it is always the fate of Democratic presidents to be portrayed as quislings quivering before this or that random evil dictator.

    FORBES: It's Time to End the Jackson-Vanik Amendment

  • She was visibly trying not to cry, but her lips were quivering.

    FORBES: Behind Every Great Man Is the Mother of His Children. One of Them Finally Comes Out.

  • A. had a map light on a chrome stem, and quivering dials.

    NEWYORKER: Hand on the Shoulder

  • But by now, the Dutch were up with the required rate and a splendid innings from De Grooth reduced the hosts to quivering wrecks.

    BBC: Superb Netherlands shock England

  • Prosecuting QC Andrew Edis told Southwark Crown Court Ms Pryce was one of the UK's "most powerful, talented, intelligent" women and not "the quivering jelly kind".

    BBC: vicky pryce

  • His first stone missed by several feet, but he struck home with the second, making a loud hollow bang and leaving the sign quivering in the wind.

    NPR: 'Arson' by Nick Lysohir

  • Had they seen my quivering hand as I signed an insurance waiver and my fumbling attempt to equip myself they would surely have taken pity on me.

    BBC: Facing England's tormentor

  • The most valuable predicting often requires a synthesis of past and present--remembrance of tsunamis past plus an instant read of the sand quivering right now between your toes.

    FORBES: Warning--Tsunami

  • Senator PATRICK LEAHY (Democrat, Vermont): This administration, for all its talk of strength, has made us less safe, and its current proposal is one that smacks of weakness and quivering fear.

    NPR: Senate Passes Detainee Rights Bill

  • The Zippo slid smoothly into his side pocket as he slid carefully out the back door, looking back only once to see the quivering orange glow from farther back in the offices.

    NPR: 'Arson' by Nick Lysohir

  • Lennon swapped Dargo and McAusland for Wardlaw and Kenneth McLean but they had no time to make any impact before Killie scored their first goal, one that will have left Lennon quivering with rage.

    BBC: Sport - Football - St Mirren 0-2 Kilmarnock

  • Like the kebab in the window, processors could sell what they like as long as their packaging shows the factories - the snapshots of giant, quivering piles of the contents, without pictures of salads, breadcrumb coatings and barbecues.

    BBC: Cheeseburger

  • Two years on you can dine on fresh sea urchin roe and quivering tuna belly at the izakaya and sushi restaurant Kushi, and around the corner is the Passenger, an artisan cocktail bar that hosts private tasting menu events.

    BBC: The new neighbourhoods of Washington DC

  • BET, treasured by some as the only channel devoted to black entertainment, is trashed by others for a lack of social conscience, a surfeit of crude comedy and a predilection for music videos rife with flashy cars, quivering cleavage and gyrating hips.

    FORBES: The cable capitalist

  • Years later, in the reductive, slowed-down replay of memory, the Buick sedan stolen fresh off a lot in Topeka appeared suddenly, having come in off a cat road that ran west and hit the main road a quarter mile from the Carson farm, deep enough in the quivering heat to provide the element of surprise.

    NEWYORKER: The Tree Line, Kansas, 1934

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