How to Use bone-chilling in a Sentence

bone-chilling

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  • For many in the U.S., it’s been a bone-chilling winter.
    — Kristine Solomon, Travel + Leisure, 10 Feb. 2024
  • And Tyler Bates’ bone-chilling score helps ratchet up the suspense.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 June 2024
  • One soldier, Leonid, huddled in the bone-chilling cold.
    — Erin Banco, Anastasiia Malenko, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2025
  • These guys are sure to create a bone-chilling Halloween.
    — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2023
  • But when that didn’t work, the calf let out more bone-chilling distress calls to the nearby cow, who approached Beronio ready to charge.
    — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Once a player finds a few pieces of warm clothing, even the most bone-chilling wind could be shrugged off without a second thought.
    — Issy Van Der Velde, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2025
  • But bone-chilling temperatures are expected to reach as far as the South and the mid-Atlantic.
    — Giulia Carbonaro, Newsweek, 18 Jan. 2025
  • But bone-chilling temperatures are expected to reach as far as the South and the mid-Atlantic.
    — Giulia Carbonaro, Newsweek, 18 Jan. 2025
  • The weekend is back to bone-chilling readings before our big January thaw sets in next week.
    — David Streit, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2024
  • There are still moments that make your hair stand on end, like that bone-chilling conclusion, but the film never loses its charm.
    — Allaire Nuss, EW.com, 8 Mar. 2024
  • One woman who testified in the inquiry recalled the bone-chilling screams of people trapped behind a steel door.
    — Lynsey Chutel, New York Times, 6 May 2024
  • However, just one season might not be quite enough for the troves of bone-chilling horror stories the producer duo has in mind.
    — Jenna Wang, Peoplemag, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Only then did Teddi get a chance to tell officers that her 15-year-old daughter had slipped out, drunk, into the bone-chilling dark.
    — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 1 June 2023
  • Not for the faint of heart, the park seriously kicks things up a notch with Black Hole, a bone-chilling tube slide that's shrouded in complete darkness, and Dive Bomber, a 72-foot-high freefall body slide.
    — Carly Caramanna, Chron, 11 May 2023
  • While Saturday will be similar to Friday's forecast, Sunday's high will be in the mid-40s and the low will be a bone-chilling 24 degrees.
    — Thomas Wheatley, Axios, 27 Nov. 2024
  • At every turn Aja keeps us on the edge of our seats with an exceptional skill to create bone-chilling scares out of almost nothing.
    — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2024
  • But Frances’s night takes a hairpin turn when a fortune-teller makes a bone-chilling prediction: One day, Frances will be murdered.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 15 Dec. 2023
  • But Frances’s night takes a hairpin turn when a fortune-teller makes a bone-chilling prediction: One day, Frances will be murdered.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The two-hour episodes use archival footage and in-depth interviews with journalists and law enforcement to take a deep dive into the bone-chilling criminals at the center of them.
    — Corin Cesaric, Peoplemag, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The 10 days of bone-chilling cold in early January were the only ones that truly felt like winter this season, according to Boulay.
    — Mary Gilbert, CNN, 11 Feb. 2024
  • But what’s not always so welcome is the once-brisk fall air that’s suddenly bone-chilling cold in some climates, where keeping warm feels like a far-away fantasy.
    — Kelsey Fredricks, People.com, 17 Dec. 2024
  • This isn’t the first time scientists have grown produce in Antarctica, despite the continent’s bone-chilling temps.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The bone-chilling temperatures are expected to linger most of the week, with wind chills dropping below zero each morning.
    — Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 6 Jan. 2025
  • In ice cube trays in a windowless lab, Rothschild is growing fungus to test its resilience to the extreme conditions of space, such as intense heat and bone-chilling cold.
    — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 8 July 2024
  • The midnight revolver, meanwhile, is the perfect way to warm up during a bone-chilling winter’s night with its bourbon, allspice, and cinnamon bark smoke.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Some weather forecast models are hinting at the potential return of widespread, bone-chilling cold later in the month.
    — Mary Gilbert, CNN, 4 Feb. 2025
  • As the trailer picks up, in a flash and with a bone-chilling shriek, our driver accelerates into the undead woman, then veering into a nearby tree.
    — Holly Jones, Variety, 6 Sep. 2023
  • One component in the story — the bone-chilling grins that slowly creep over the faces of victims — distinguished this horror film from others, and Paramount knew those scenes would frighten crowds in a big way.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The crisp air also prompts the chance to spotlight stylish fall jackets in your everyday style before temps drop to bone-chilling degrees (puffer jacket season will be here in no time, after all).
    — Olivia Cigliano, WWD, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Given the bone-chilling temperatures, the details about the live performances were still being worked out Friday afternoon.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 17 Jan. 2025

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