frissonner

Sa voix, généralement tendre et suppliante, faisait maintenant entendre des reproches et des condamnations. Ses auditeurs frissonnaient.
His voice, that had so often been heard in gentleness and entreaty, was now heard in rebuke and condemnation.
Les enfants frissonnaient de peur en écoutant le récit bouleversant.
The children shivered with fright as they listened to the harrowing tale.
Ses parents frissonnaient à l'idée que leur fille voyage seule à travers l'Europe.
Her parents shuddered to think of their daughter traveling alone around Europe.
Cela devrait nous éviter de revivre l'embarras de l'année dernière, quand les défenseurs du climat frissonnaient en ce mois de décembre le plus froid depuis des décennies à Copenhague.
We should be spared a repeat of last year's embarrassment, when global warmists shivered in the coldest Copenhagen December for decades.
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