chilly
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I have a photo of my mother at the Bowl on a chilly 1940s evening sporting, like other ladies around her in the inexpensive bleachers, her mink stole.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026
While it will hardly be chilly this weekend, many will feel the heatwave easing as the weekend progresses.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
Men, women and children are forced into a few tents during the chilly winter nights as they wait for buses to arrive.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
Water aerobics was thankfully in the indoor pool, but it was chilly getting out of the water.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
By 5:00 A.M. the first hint of daylight glowed dimly in the east, and daybreak brought a chilly, misty, overcast day with snow squalls driving in ragged veils across the ice.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
Ads on “cooler screens,” i.e., digital ads projected on the doors of refrigerated cases in supermarkets, get a much chillier reception, with 41% of respondents viewing them negatively, the report found.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
With high pressure centred to the west of the UK, winds will mainly come from that chillier northerly direction.
From BBC ● May 9, 2026
December’s event is called the Cold Moon because it rises amid longer, chillier nights approaching the winter solstice, according to the Old Farmer’s Almanac.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2025
With spooky season in full swing, curating fall vibes is essential to truly enjoying our chillier months.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2025
Jack Dandy’s smile grew wider and chillier and even more perfect.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
The actress asked Wintour what she thought of her dress, to which Wintour put on her shades—and her chilliest tone—and said, “And the nominees are.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 2026
This was also the year with the chilliest night - just 4.2C at nearly Yeovilton.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2025
The chilliest, darkest place in the unseen ocean of the soul.
From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2025
In this mild winter, Friday seemed to be one of Washington’s dampest, chilliest, breeziest, and possibly even gloomiest, days of the year.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2023
"If you so much as venture to address me again upon the subject," she returned in the very chilliest accents, "I will lay this matter of your odious suit before your master Cesare Borgia."
From The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro by Rafael Sabatini
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