spine-chilling

Example Sentences

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But what better way is there to make a monster than to draw from the scariest and most spine-chilling in the game?

From Los Angeles Times

While his decimation of any semblance of Justice Department independence is troubling, it’s downright spine-chilling when it comes to elections.

From Salon

The best film goes first: It’s about a father-daughter camping trip that goes horribly wrong at the hands of a creepy-looking park ranger and, in a spine-chilling scene, living sand.

From New York Times

Dahlia Lithwick looks at how his rhetoric has been getting even more spine-chilling of late, and why we can’t afford to lose sight of what’s at stake.

From Slate

As Trump openly described his rationale for his plans last week in the most spine-chilling language yet, undocumented immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.”

From Slate