Idiom
send shivers down someone's spine
Meaning
To terrify; to make someone feel extremely nervous.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“That scary movie sends shivers down my spine.”
“The strange noise in the dark hallway sent shivers down her spine as she walked home alone.”
“The haunting melody, played on a lonely violin in the empty theater, sent shivers down the spines of everyone in the audience.”
Examples
simple
“That scary movie sends shivers down my spine.”
contextual
“The strange noise in the dark hallway sent shivers down her spine as she walked home alone.”
complex
“The haunting melody, played on a lonely violin in the empty theater, sent shivers down the spines of everyone in the audience.”
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