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spine-chilling

[spahyn-chil-ing] / ˈspaɪnˌtʃɪl ɪŋ /






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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 • Nov. 27, 2025

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 • Dec. 8, 2023

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 • Nov. 16, 2023

To visit the spine-chilling inside of Vecna’s mind, head to 10th Avenue West in Queen Anne where it meets West Bothwell Street.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 30, 2023

No sooner had Jasper Jr. knocked me to the ground than I heard Bull cut loose with a spine-chilling wail.

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen




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