chilling

Example Sentences

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Horror is filled with trend-hopping and mimicry — the genre itself holds a mirror to our cultural anxieties, replicating them with chilling, hyperbolic intensity.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2026

Those chilling hours proved their worth this month, when high temperatures arrived far earlier than usual.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

Later, a stranger gleefully approaches Kornev, convinced he knows him, and the effect is chilling — a glitch in the matrix in which human connection briefly flourishes.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

"What chilling effect does that have on the world we live in? You don't like what a public official does and you make a joke, and you're dragged into court?"

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026

I tried to imagine how it’d even be like, chilling inside such a big place, right on the beach, but I couldn’t really picture it.

From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña