chills

Example Sentences

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But doctors believe in immunization because it works, not because they’re paid shills.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

In contrast to the warmly interconnected townsfolk we first met, these wage shills, who open up to each other in a long car ride, lead pinched, lonely, unrealized lives.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2024

“I would come in and lay out the facts and so all the paid shills would jump on me. To try and suppress it,” he wrote.

From Washington Post • Oct. 29, 2022

“I was sitting there thinking that all the people he was calling on were shills — and then he called my name,” Wendy Rogers, a public-school teacher from Brooklyn, said after the show.

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2022

Filip with his mechanical dogs had been the roper, used to draw Jordie in, while Margit, Saskia, and the clerks at the trade office had all been shills in on the scam.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo