chilling

Example Sentences

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While it was starting, he pulled up a stool between it and Cornelius, who was chilling in the tank with his prehensile tail wrapped around a twig.

From Literature

It also created a “chilling” effect among clinicians who were scared to share family-planning resources due to a fear of it affecting funding — even in countries with progressive policies on abortion.

From Salon

When the characters occasionally look at the camera, the effect is chilling, briefly but powerfully bridging the distance between then and now, them and us.

From Los Angeles Times

But for one glorious month, lots of chilling polar bears meant lots of tourists.

From Literature

To establish the right note of terror on a fog-strewn set by Arnulfo Maldonado that resembles the private chamber of a writer or madman, Page begins with Lady Macbeth’s chilling incantation.

From Los Angeles Times