How to Use vibrate in a Sentence

vibrate

verb
Definition of vibratenext
Synonyms for vibratenext
  • When you blow into the instrument, the air vibrates the reed.
  • The chants were so loud that the car windows seemed to vibrate.
    — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
  • First, make a ukulele that can both move and vibrate on a bed of grass.
    — Alida Nugent, Peoplemag, 10 Apr. 2024
  • The city seemed to be vibrating with the mere knowledge of B’s presence in the GTA.
    — Hazlitt, 19 July 2023
  • There isn’t a cloud in the sky, and my phone has only vibrated twice.
    — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 28 June 2024
  • At one point, the sky started to vibrate, and the edges glowed violet and green.
    — New York Times, 23 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • Vests will light up or vibrate to let a player know when they’ve been hit.
    — Stephanie Jarrett, chicagotribune.com, 11 Apr. 2021
  • First the snake can vibrate its tail to mimic a rattlesnake.
    — Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 15 Aug. 2022
  • There was the sense that the vibrating craft was an extension of my limbs.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
  • The broad, flat sides will vibrate easily and project sound very well.
    — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2021
  • Use some Thread Locker (blue or red) to keep the bolts from vibrating loose.
    — Jeff Dengate, Popular Mechanics, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Bass notes on the electric organ made the ground under our feet seem to vibrate.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Polarized light is like streaking a comb through messy hair—all the waves now vibrate in the same plane.
    — Max G. Levy, Wired, 23 June 2021
  • All mobile devices must be set to silent or vibrate at all times.
    — Andrew Mahoney, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2022
  • The incoming message will also make a noise and the phone should vibrate.
    — Rebecca Santana, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2023
  • 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.
    — Victoria Dalkey, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Then, the warnings get louder and more frequent, the car tugs on your seatbelt, and the seat and steering wheel will vibrate.
    — Daniel Golson, The Verge, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Thanks to a bass’s lateral lines, a vibrating jig is an easy bait for the fish to detect in the water.
    — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 12 Oct. 2023
  • At idle, the mirrors vibrate so hard as to be unusable.
    — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 1 May 2021
  • Touch your bracelet whenever your partner comes to mind and theirs will light up and vibrate.
    — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Sound waves traveling through your ear canal cause your eardrum to vibrate.
    — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2022
  • There are seven cameras in each goal and a signal is sent to the referee’s watch, which vibrates if the ball has crossed the line.
    — James Robson, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2024
  • After my post-stroll hot tub, my feet began to vibrate.
    — Betsy Andrews, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Jan. 2023
  • The rooms had great exposure to sunlight, which made the colors vibrate.
    — Marie-Noëlle Lanoote, House Beautiful, 23 Sep. 2021
  • The dimensions of the monster count all the ways in which a thread can vibrate at a certain energy.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Doug Olexy was home from work and checking email when the blast shook his house, rattling windows and making the walls vibrate.
    — Michael Rubinkam and Ron Todt, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Right now, the vibrating pill has only been tested in pigs.
    — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Like Woolf’s book, too, the plot is sparse, with a richness that comes in part from the way its taut moments vibrate with history.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2021
  • The only indication of what was going on inside was the bass vibrating up from the storm drains.
    — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024

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