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Yeti Daytrip Insulated Lunch Bag After a long day in the sun and on the trails, there’s nothing like an ice-cold beverage.—Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 5 Feb. 2026 This spin on the ice-cold vodka cocktail has a gentle heat and subtle sweetness.—Saveur Editors, Saveur, 4 Feb. 2026 The Knicks survived an ice-cold Bridges scoring night despite two key rotation players (Josh Hart and Miles McBride) out nursing ankle injuries.—Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 4 Feb. 2026 Southerners have worked the iconic chocolate-and-vanilla flavor into ice cream, fluff, brownies, and even layer cake, though there’s certainly a time and place for the nostalgic dunking of a cookie straight from the blue Oreo packaging into a glass of ice-cold milk.—Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 22 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for ice-cold
Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of ice-cold was
before the 12th century