out cold
Example Sentences
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The new study shows that dark matter does not necessarily need to start out cold.
From Science Daily • Jan. 15, 2026
Another unconventional character is Gudetama, or "lazy egg", who is living with depression and fires out cold one-liners that reflect dark realities of life.
From BBC • Oct. 31, 2024
Just when it seems that B.J. is out cold, his eyes fly open and he reaches, grabs, twists.
From New York Times • Jul. 16, 2023
Your dad won’t be out cold in the La-Z-Boy in front of every Orioles game now.
From Washington Post • Feb. 27, 2023
Between the car floating real soft down the road and Lefty Lewis’s boring stories about the railroad and the union and baseball I was out cold in no time.
From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.