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.
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The kind of tired where your face vibrates and your eyes throb.
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Lyz Lenz,
Glamour,
26 Nov. 2018
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The chants were so loud that the car windows seemed to vibrate.
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Dexter Filkins,
The New Yorker,
6 Dec. 2021
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First, make a ukulele that can both move and vibrate on a bed of grass.
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Alida Nugent,
Peoplemag,
10 Apr. 2024
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The city seemed to be vibrating with the mere knowledge of B’s presence in the GTA.
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Hazlitt,
19 July 2023
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There isn’t a cloud in the sky, and my phone has only vibrated twice.
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Liza Lentini,
SPIN,
28 June 2024
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Then a storm came and the gazebo started vibrating in the breeze.
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John Kelly,
Washington Post,
28 July 2019
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At one point, the sky started to vibrate, and the edges glowed violet and green.
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New York Times,
23 Apr. 2021
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In other words, the show could stand to ease on down more and vibrate madly a bit less.
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Peter Marks,
Washington Post,
26 Oct. 2023
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Vests will light up or vibrate to let a player know when they’ve been hit.
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Stephanie Jarrett,
chicagotribune.com,
11 Apr. 2021
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First the snake can vibrate its tail to mimic a rattlesnake.
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Dennis Pillion | [email protected],
al,
15 Aug. 2022
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The watch will vibrate when the session starts, and then again two minutes later when the time is up.
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Jason Cipriani,
CNN Underscored,
22 Sep. 2020
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There was the sense that the vibrating craft was an extension of my limbs.
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
The New Yorker,
15 Apr. 2024
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The broad, flat sides will vibrate easily and project sound very well.
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Bradley Ford,
Popular Mechanics,
29 Mar. 2021
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Use some Thread Locker (blue or red) to keep the bolts from vibrating loose.
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Jeff Dengate,
Popular Mechanics,
14 Aug. 2023
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Bass notes on the electric organ made the ground under our feet seem to vibrate.
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Mark Swed,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Sep. 2023
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Instead, the sleeve of your shirt, suit jacket or dress will glow, blink or vibrate with alerts.
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Ray A. Smith,
WSJ,
2 Jan. 2020
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For now, the Levi’s jacket features touch inputs and a tag that blinks and vibrates in sync with your phone.
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Amy Verner,
Vogue,
6 Mar. 2019
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Miyako was on her way to the door when her sleeve vibrated with a different type of alarm.
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Andrew Liptak,
The Verge,
8 Dec. 2018
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Polarized light is like streaking a comb through messy hair—all the waves now vibrate in the same plane.
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Max G. Levy,
Wired,
23 June 2021
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All mobile devices must be set to silent or vibrate at all times.
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Andrew Mahoney,
BostonGlobe.com,
8 June 2022
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The incoming message will also make a noise and the phone should vibrate.
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Rebecca Santana,
Fortune,
4 Oct. 2023
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At its center, a metal bowl and a light bulb hang, emitting a low roar that makes the sculpture and the room around it vibrate.
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Victoria Dalkey,
Sacramento Bee,
25 Jan. 2024
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This part of the movie, a song of the bittersweet, strange sadness of adolescence, vibrates with life.
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Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
13 Sep. 2019
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Then, the warnings get louder and more frequent, the car tugs on your seatbelt, and the seat and steering wheel will vibrate.
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Daniel Golson,
The Verge,
27 Sep. 2023
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Thanks to a bass’s lateral lines, a vibrating jig is an easy bait for the fish to detect in the water.
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Shaye Baker,
Field & Stream,
12 Oct. 2023
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At idle, the mirrors vibrate so hard as to be unusable.
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Viju Mathew,
Robb Report,
1 May 2021
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Their mechanism consists of a substrate material that vibrates when a voltage is applied.
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Mark Sparrow,
Forbes,
13 Oct. 2024
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His samples are full of vibrating guitars, sorrowful organs, and cascading drums.
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Pitchfork,
15 Oct. 2024
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