gelid

Example Sentences

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Irresistibly compelled, you book a holiday to the gelid, hostile regions whence the creature came.

From New York Times

Staring from his seat at the piano, Ron’s gelid gaze is sphinxian, murderous, as if he would love to get the song over with and put a knife in his brother’s chest.

From Washington Post

Settings range globally without fanfare, as do Krauss’s gelid portraits of modern arrangements.

From Washington Post

These were men who shopped at Farm & Fleet, who used dish detergent as body wash, who often bathed nude in the shallows of gelid freshwater lakes.

From New York Times

What often comes their way — well, not their way but the way of the vehicles behind them — is a dense sheet of snow, sailing through the air like a gelid missile.

From Washington Post