How To Use Chilling In A Sentence

Combined with the snowily austere imagery of the scene, the effect is chilling.
And a bowl of juicy ripe fruit was placed on the table and a bottle of sparkling wine was chilling nicely in the silver cooler.
No one does American small-town evil more chillingly. Times, Sunday Times
This is a complex wine that will sparkle as an accompaniment to a tall glass of bone chillingly cold lemon sorbet with sprigs of mint.
Their report on the plans for nuclear war is a chilling document.

They could produce a chilling effect on press freedom, empowering only the company with bottomless pockets and the rich individual with a limitless appetite for complaints. Times, Sunday Times
A tautly told tale of psychological tension and chilling moral complexity, The Last Secret accelerates to a shattering conclusion as it explores the irreparable consequences of one family's crimes of the heart. The Last Secret: Summary and book reviews of The Last Secret by Mary McGarry Morris.
Coming back to the form of two years ago, Westmeath have been hit by a chilling catalogue of injuries.
On a winter's night in the deserts of northern Mexico one might expect to hear the chilling cries of coyotes or solitary wolf baying at the moon.
Perhaps the most chilling thought is that by the standards of other internet security issues, swamping attacks are a relatively mild problem. Times, Sunday Times
Thankfully, the actor has pulled in the reins, producing an electrifying performance that is truly chilling. The Sun
In these experiments, chilling is necessary.
I shall never see the word hawthorn in poetry again without the image of the snowy but far from chilling canopy rising before me. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
As first-timers they all receive a formal welcome that begins with the spine-chilling wero (challenge by one of the local warriors) followed by a karanga (call of welcome by one of the local women).
Even the name is a little chilling, recalling a medieval spearlike weapon as well as a ferocious fish. Try Pike On The Fly
We loved it - absolutely fantastic for chilling out with friends.
This really very scary Japanese ghost story from director Hideo Nakata exerts a chilling grip with its icy calm and eerie reticence.
After hyperinflation, Austria introduces the schilling.
The works often retain an astonishing degree of emotional intensity and chilling weirdness. Times, Sunday Times
With Curt Schilling carrying a perfect game with one out in the eighth inning, Davis had the audacity to drop down a bunt, which he beat out for a single.
The hiss turned into a scream, this one more like a ship's keel ripping apart under pressure than a triumphant blood-chilling cry like before.
The boulder sheltered them from the chilling wind.
Again, the conversation was bugged; it gives a chilling insight into the mind of a hardened militant.
There goes a woman," resumed Roger Chillingworth, after a pause, "who, be her demerits what they may, hath none of that mystery of hidden sinfulness which you deem so grievous to be borne.
The air was pale and clammy, chilling them so that they all got out their thick cloaks, and huddled in them.
Then the chilling truth dawned on Captain Gary Snavely.
The mariachis were swinging, the margaritas were chilling, the River Walk was overflowing.
The answer is chilling: many clergy persons in many churches and some rabbis and cantors participate.
The werewolf bared its fangs in a mirthless grin and made a low growling sound that sounded chillingly like laughter.
His description of how he watched helplessly as one of the deadly missiles thundered towards him makes chilling reading.
Some say that the scandal will still have a chilling effect. Times, Sunday Times
Them keeps its monsters cloaked in shadowy darkness until the very end, which is probably why it is so chilling. Times, Sunday Times
The dog ludicrously albeit lovingly christened Precious Baby by Ted's late wife and resolutely called PB by Ted himself - hesitated at the doorway and blinked out at the street, where the autumn rain was falling in the sort of steady waves that presaged alengthy and bone-chilling storm. A Traitor to Memory
All is dwarfed at the end, though, by a chilling report and follow-up on the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre.
Chilling out on the back of a motorised armchair is not a bad plan. The Sun
Britons would do well to familiarise themselves with this tale of the 40-year squeeze, because there are chilling signs of something similar getting under way here. Middle incomes: the American nightmare | Editorial
As the sun set, the blazing heat dissipated to be replace by chilling winds that whipped at the Traveler's clothes and cut down to his bones.
Another chilling measure was railroaded through federal parliament this week without any noticeable media coverage.
The weather had turned much colder with a nasty North Easterly wind chilling all the lakes.
The combination of unknowable rules and draconian penalties is already having a chilling effect.
Was chilling out with some new friends last night, watching The Labyrinth and some weird Japanese movie.
Both men become embroiled in a chilling conspiracy designed to destroy the power of the andat once and for all. A Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham
Then the chilling truth dawned on Captain Gary Snavely.
Six Ceduna Bay oysters were chilling on a bed of ice, topped with a mixture of shaved leek, soy sauce, lemon juice, wasabi and delicately garnished with a thin sheet of nori.
She is chillingly avid for gold in the gambling scene.
The London-born star will be appearing in the new Star Wars film in the spine-chilling part of General Grievous.
It was cold, and the wind blew around him, chilling him.
But for those who like their terror on the more sophisticated side, this is elegantly spine-chilling.
Reduced sulphur compounds produced by assimilatory sulphate reduction play an important role in many plant responses to various kinds of stress, including oxidative stress, chilling and exposure to heavy metals, and xenobiotics.
Bascom is distant kin, and getting to hear him speak on this disc, introducing the tunes as he recorded them for the Library of Congress in the late 1940s, is spine-chilling.
Recently Read has also done comedy gigs, regaling audiences with chilling autobiographical tales while assuring nervous listeners he has never hurt a woman, child or innocent person.
In 1832, Baron Schilling, a Russian diplomat, linked the Summer Palace of the tsar in St Petersburg to the Winter Palace using a telegraph with rotating magnetized needles.
I'm just chilling out in front of the TV.
In his youth he has suffered blackouts that repress chilling memories of childhood abuse, death and the absence of his mentally unbalanced father.
My plood vas chilling now so I ain't aple to svallow in my troat alretty. Ted Strong in Montana With Lariat and Spur
The lawyer gave a chilling demonstration of how the accused used a towel to suffocate his victim.
Neither chilling nor freezing kills all bacteria.
The little back area is for sitting down, chilling out, reading the papers.
The city-stateof Argos, ringing a mountainous cove, is a breathtaking bit of CGI imagery, while the gorgon and its lair are chillinglyatmospheric. Review: Clash of the Titans « Screaming Blue Reviews
The mental mindgames the three plays chillingly reveal truth to be a function of power.
In Arzner's subtly altered version, Rosalind Russell's obsessive Harriet is a chilling yet mesmerising figure, and in low-angle shots and mannish attire, looms as majestic and vengeful as a modern-day Medea.
What is most chilling is the deliberate and calculated attempt by Government to take on its most vulnerable and to make them enemies of the State.
With our backs to the chilling wind whistling in from Damascus, we ski north-west, towards Tripoli.
The pigs were in poor body condition which, together with the history suggested that disease was ongoing for some time and earlier disease due to, for example, colibacillosis and/or managemental/environmental factors e.g. chilling may have played a part in this disease problem. ThePigSite - Global Pig Industry News Feeds
The cold wind closed around her like an icy fist, chilling her to the bone.
As the Khodorkovsky case dramatizes, that is a chillingly accurate description. NYT > Home Page
Clearly the content of this speech was chilling, but what alarms me more is the cold robotic way he delivered it.
On a day that was full of chilly damp pizzle and various disappointments it was playful and chilling, thrilling and light-of-touch from the first word to the last. GR6: George Clooney’s Moustache by Rob Shearman « In The Gloaming Podcasts
The spectral shimmer of Terra Incognita is eerier still, especially when Cox beckons "Will you join me?" in a voice as seductive as it is chilling. Atlas Sound: Parallax – review
A pair of shackles and chilling messages daubed on the walls have already been uncovered from the first two secret chambers at the site. The Sun
If Schilling's tender ankle stays stable, he should get stronger.
Cabaret, as filmed by Fosse, focused chillingly on the disparity between reality and illusion.
Other soft fruit, including strawberries and raspberries, need less chilling. Times, Sunday Times
It is a word that implies finesse and expertise, if not actual art, and it is a chilling unconscious effort to normalize and cosmeticize the awful and gross reality of real-world torture. Daniel Menaker: Boehner's blunder
Let the soup sit for an hour, chilling, and then retaste, season and adjust. Holly Smith: The Next Iron Chef
I'm a big fan of waterfront cities: there's just something about chilling out on the waterside that I really love.
Chillingly, the report added, "They may also find difficulty in absorbing the additional costs, to comply with the Directive. The ultimate in fatuity?
There are few films which deliver a more chilling portrait of urban alienation. Times, Sunday Times
The chilling and insensitive arrogance of this remark is breathtaking.
Read on and you begin a chilling roller-coaster ride into the black hole of domestic, sexual and physical abuse, as much of ordinary women as the vulnerable streetwalker.
Droplets splattered onto my sweatshirt, seeping through the thin fabric and chilling my skin.
A chilling hospital scene depicts zombified patients walking up and down a small corridor in rhythmic despair, pushing their IV stands and furiously puffing away on their oral fixatives.
Although the kind of prison these cons are describing in bone-chilling vignettes is, of the kind you only fantasize if you really have issues or if gone to bed after a particularly spicy chalupa.
The previously unpublished letters were written to a pen pal over the last 15 years and give a chilling insight into his twisted mind. The Sun
The most chilling exhibit space is a room that holds species that are extinct or endangered.
Happy that I made it through my goal workout, with little incident, I'm headed for the home made guacamole that is chilling in my fridge!
Even now, he heard shattering pieces of glass, frightful arguments, and spine-chilling words being spat across the room from each of his parents.
The ginger-haired baby Elizabeth is mainly a squalling infant in the period of the narrative, which chiefly covers the years 1527 – 35, but in the figure of her sibling Mary, one is given a chilling prefiguration of the coming time when the bonfires of English heretics will really start to blaze in earnest. The Men Who Made England
Work is in progress to investigate how the water moves through the roots of bean under chilling conditions.
Yet, by cautiously placing precious melodies in the heart of his soundscapes, Octavius creates with this album a disturbingly chilling cinematic piece of work.
Spent the rest of the afternoon chilling out by Hellshire and sampling some serious fried fish and eye candy.
* And even with that chilling effect, the Pew study still has one in seven American Internet users file-sharing -- in other words, file-sharing is still solidly mainstream and nowhere near being "driven underground. Boing Boing: January 4, 2004 - January 10, 2004 Archives
So hot here right now - all I'm wearing is my bling - chilling with a beer - respect!
He added that exemplary damages would have a chilling effect on investigative journalism and political reporting. Times, Sunday Times
The frightful human cost of those years is spelled out with chilling clarity in UNICEF figures.
The theme for Michael Caine's gangster film Get Carter, written at the age of 23, lays ricocheting trains, chilling harpsichord and funky tablas over a swaggering bass line.
Spring, who did not realise the hitman was a wired undercover police officer, can be heard on the grainy recording making a chilling request for the girl to be ‘terminated’.
That same ability to sustain the smallest thread of pianissimo cast a chilling spell when, in "Die liebe Farbe", he shrouded his voice to sing of death while the superb Helmut Deutsch kept the millwheel turning in his beautifully sensitive, many-coloured accompaniment. Nigel Kennedy/ Orchestra of Life; Sir Charles Mackerras Memorial Concert; Jonas Kaufmann
The wind blew not just gentle breezes but full-blown bone chilling winds.
It made her chillingly uneasy, like an earthquake shaking the house.
Their report on the plans for nuclear war is a chilling document.
Alienated from their surroundings, these youths are chilling totems of a society predicated on division.
As fruit needs not only sunshine but cold nights and chilling showers to ripen it, so character needs not only joy but trial and difficulty to mellow it.
But a new obstacle now arose in his troop; they had reckoned on a civic supper with their comrades of the guard; and the notion of bivouacking in front of the Abbaye, under the chilling wind and fierce showers which now swept down the dismal streets, was too much for their sense of discipline. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844
There is some grain size reduction of the troctolite adjacent to the anorthosite, indicating a chilling effect.
Steam puffed from the mouths of the quarterbacks as they barked out the plays, and from their teammates as they huffed each bone-chilling breath; at the end, Fisher's mustache was frosted over.
The initial combat scenes are well directed, chilling and very unsettling, but the events that follow, the courtroom sequences in particular, are hackneyed and dull.
A recent survey at the end of the year for the Austrian broadcaster, the ORF, found that two-thirds of the country still thought in terms of the now defunct schillings.
Jesus, according to the protesters, would have been with them, nursing decaff soy lattes in Starbucks, chatting to journalists, chilling out in the music tent, or maybe chanting in the "meditation and prayer tent" in front of the Buddhist shrine. Christina Patterson: Thank God Ethics Is A Messy Business
The result is a chilling portrait of a virus that had made major inroads into that population before anybody suspected a thing.
Winter chilling has two principal effects: it removes dormancy, so that when warm conditions return in the spring the plants have renewed vegetative vigour.
I can't tell you how much I am looking forward to the rest and chilling out for a few days.
James gesticulated wildly to the bench in that chilling dance of the sportsman who knows something horrific has happened. Gloucester 34-22 Bath | Premiership match report
She was plying her neighbours with cups of tea in an effort to brace them against the biting chilling wind.
The stories range from the heart-warming to the bone chilling, without ever giving in to sentimentality or farce.
The chilling facts behind this veil of silence were slow to emerge.
Right now I'm chilling with Jurassic 5, and Tool primarily, but I've been dusting off my old Public Enemy platters.
A pair of shackles and chilling messages daubed on the walls have already been uncovered from the first two secret chambers at the site. The Sun
To its credit, the Great Falls Leader devoted a front-page sidebar to the collapse of the dam on Birch Creek, offering chilling eyewitness descriptions of the wall of water that swept down the valley.
The band imprinted my vacation with incongruities: the clear blue beauty of the Aegean sea and the fuzz-fest mayhem of "Territorial Pissings", a hot shimmering Mediterranean sun infected with the chilling strains of "Polly". In search of Nirvana
The sight of a footballer collapsing lifeless on the pitch is one of the most chilling and terrifying you are likely to see. Times, Sunday Times
This chilling scene is from a video recording released for the first time today. The Sun
The climactic scene in which the local Mafiosi close in on the inspector is bone chilling and unforgettable.
Frankenstein was chilling for more than a few moviegoers in that black-and-white world.
Her tears were like ice, freezing on her face and chilling her all over.
Even when she was not present on the stage, the chilling scream, which came from offstage, reminded the audience of her.
That's the affectionate nickname for the hearty folks who will be on the pier on the coldest, most bone-chilling day of winter.
This one is for those hungry for adventure and thirsty for thrills; those who are game for spine-chilling off-the-edge excitement and mind-blowing heights.
And let us not forget the chilling spectacle of that State of the Union address, with the claque and brass popping up with applause at every stumbling word like so many automatons at a court masque for their Sun King.
While there is no reliable global tally of unsafe schools in quake zones, regional snapshots are chillingly clear.
In summer, hot air from the cavity is released at roof level: the cooling effect of convected air rising through the cavity is expected to reduce mechanical chilling loads significantly.
I headed into the bathroom and was greeted by a chilling site: the seat was up!
As fruit needs not only sunshine but cold nights and chilling showers to ripen it, so character needs not only joy but trial and difficulty to mellow it.
It is no answer to the chilling effect of section 40 on a free and untamed press to say that they only need join a recognised regulator. Times, Sunday Times
The monument stands as a chilling reminder of man's inhumanity to man.
As he reached for the box to remove it, the chilling feel of gunmetal touched the back of his neck.
The park also boasts a chillingly effective World Extinct Wildlife Cemetery to illustrate the plight of endangered species.
He’s ordered a cheese vat-pasteurizer from the Netherlands, and a holding/chilling tank from Canada, and will only sell milk until the new equipment is here and hooked up. No more raw milk at Kurtwood
The band freewheel to the end of the track with a spot of easy-on-down chilling.
But Mrs. Schilling retorts in her blog that the family home fell out of the district only after state Democrats redrew its lines in recent years to keep its seat out of Republican hands. Pizza-Place Owner Hopes to Flip Democratic District
It is no answer to the chilling effect of section 40 on a free and untamed press to say that they only need join a recognised regulator. Times, Sunday Times
No more chilling evocation of the willing choice of evil exists in all literature than Lady Macbeth's famous renunciation of maternal feeling for the sake of power.
They were terrifying and unearthly, eerily bloodchilling as they invoked all evil spirits to possess them.
Modestly ambitious and highly successfully within its chosen territory, Dead Snow proves to be one of the punchiest horror flicks in recent memory and one of the more capable within its low-budget constraints; the silent, lifeless landscapes make for a chilling tension-builder between each over-the-top set piece, while a memorable third-act shot of a character trapped beneath the snow is more nightmarishly claustrophobic than anything in The Descent. Archive 2009-10-01
She said if the decision were to stand, it would have a chilling effect on consumers and Internet service providers.
The idea that this flu could reach pandemic proportions is a chilling thought.
Later on, after the invading French army has been repelled, Lear and Cordelia have been taken captive and Edmund gives these chilling words to his captain.
Chilling or freezing was originally only available as a method of food preservation to those with a ready supply of ice.
It is thoroughly bone-chilling on nights of the full moon when there are cloudless skies.
His remarks came after more UK victims of the tragedy were named and as chilling new accounts of the moments leading up to the disaster emerged.
While the bars are chilling, make the chocolate topping: In a large nonreactive metal bowl, combine the chocolate, corn syrup, salt and butter (I did the salt to taste -- it was fabulous after 2 pinches; the original recipe does not call for any salt in any stage but I think it really adds something). Peanut Butter Crispy Bars
Kobe Steel supplied the liquid-helium refrigerator for super-chilling the magnets close to absolute zero.
Meanwhile, in real life, the actress was embroiled in a family feud that would have made a chilling whodunnit. Times, Sunday Times
The chilling makes the chicken parcels easier to handle. Times, Sunday Times
Them keeps its monsters cloaked in shadowy darkness until the very end, which is probably why it is so chilling. Times, Sunday Times
She hastened her steps, for the wind was a breath of chilling air and she was anxious to get home and off of her tired feet.
Another cold blast of wind came up, chilling Belle more.
With radar, sonar, fish-finders and echograms she could pinpoint and capture whole schools of fish with chilling effectiveness.
It sent a chilling message of cold and dismal feelings through my body; I didn't want to hold on any more, so I gently removed my fingers from the window.
The Touch-Up," is a spine-chilling new novel that rips the cover off Poughkeepsie's upholstery industry and exposes its "seamier" side. You are not as clever as you think
Iris Chang, whose grandparents escaped the city just before it fell, has written a brilliant and chilling account of this terrible war chapter.
As though a spell was spoken, a strong, chilling wind passed over the two and a large nimbus cloud blocked the Sun out.
This is clearly shown in Figure 1 by the horizontal line for the schilling (over the entire period displayed) and the guilder.
Through the dry, chilling lines, he always seems one part bemused; you can almost hear a smirk in his voice, which is a deep, rich baritone, unbefitting of a 37-year-old who still half looks like a teenager.
After all the hype, the secrets turn out to be pretty banal: boning poussins to make them easier to serve, chilling a beef fillet so it slices neater, wrapping rabbit in pancetta to keep it moist.
A self-confessed computer nerd, Schilling is the perfect pitcher for the digital age.
Schilling wasn't alone in being willing to spill a little blood to staunch an ancient wound.
But recall the eery similarities between Tucson and this utterly chilling episode from last year. Your Right Hand Thief
So other than my heartbreak during the week, I am now looking forward to heading for sunny Spain with my friend and just chilling out for two weeks, but don't worry I already have plenty of sunblock!
Neither chilling nor freezing kills all bacteria.
The initial combat scenes are well directed, chilling and very unsettling, but the events that follow, the courtroom sequences in particular, are hackneyed and dull.
More troubling is to take an up-close look at Seattle's streets and parks after Orion Center shuts down for the day, especially as temperatures drop and the combination of rain and gusty winds makes for bone-chilling conditions. Economy deals homeless youth support center double whammy
They also place into chilling perspective the racially tinged value of education for black job seekers.
What language is adequate to depicture the goodness and the fortitude of that heart which dared to contend alone, against the chilling repukes of a frozen-hearted world and the strong arm of misfortune? "The Life and Character of John Howard," Senior Speech of Richard T. Weaver, April 1846
Keep them nice and round by standing them upright in a tall drinking glass while they're chilling.
A chilling picture of the unchanging American penal system. Times, Sunday Times
I love the feeling of slowness and how a day can start off with a chilling coldness that melts into a strange half-warmness later on.
Not only that, but these rules add three more planets to the roster: Ceres (up until now considered a lowly asteroid), Charon (Pluto's moon), and the prosaically-named UB313 (an iceball slightly bigger than Pluto and chillingly even farther from the Sun). Phil Plait: Pluto to Officially Become a Planet-- and Now we have 12!
Seeds of most hardy perennials, including butterfly weed, columbine, liatris, and penstemon, require a period of chilling to germinate.
The chilling thing is that he and those who lionize him seem to want his predictions to come true.
Neither chilling nor freezing kills all bacteria.
And after Schilling bulled his way through spring training as if those games actually meant something, the method to his business became even clearer.
Exhibiting the quiet but chilling fierceness that only the surest confidence can instil, he remained a man of few words.
The eyes convey a dark emotion of chilling intensity: resentment, perhaps?
There was also the chilling sound of a sword - several swords - being drawn.
The chilling realities of street life are skilfully combined with the familiar trappings of adolescence to create a tense, powerful drama.
Seeds of most hardy perennials - including bleeding heart, butterfly weed, columbine, delphinium, liatris, and penstemon - require a period of chilling to germinate.
DNA finds out how the city is giving the term chilling out new meaning. Analysis
His voice has a calmness to it that is almost chilling, and it is medium range for a male tenor.
Seeds of most hardy perennials - including bleeding heart, butterfly weed, columbine, delphinium, liatris, and penstemon - require a period of chilling to germinate.
This chilling scene is from a video recording released for the first time today. The Sun
On an escritoire stood two bottles of champagne chilling in a bucket. COMPULSION
He calibrates his anger, vocally and physically, with chilling precision, from political aggression to power-lust to sexual frustration. Tosca; La rondine; Arensky Chamber Orchestra – review
The bone-chilling cold cut through his sopping wet clothes, numbing the wounds in his shoulder and side.
An intricate mesh of flashbacks and postattack scenes leads up to a chilling denouement revealing what happened. Times, Sunday Times
Liesl Schillinger on His Illegal Self by Peter Carey: This idea, this truth — that a child in distress is hard-wired to seek protection from a woman, any woman, whatever her failings, her confusions, her ideology — is the heartbeat that races through Peter An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs.
He's got the menacing physique and the even more bone-chilling voice required to scare any bail-skippers and debt-ridden lowlifes right out of hiding and directly into a prison cell. Once Alec Baldwin Quits Acting, What Jobs Should He Pursue? » MTV Movies Blog
Chilling temperature is one of the most studied environmental factors in plant stress physiology research.
Investigators pursued what they described as promising leads Wednesday in a chilling bombing attempt at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in which someone left a backpack filled with sophisticated explosives on a bench. The Seattle Times
There are chilling accounts of dawn raids on sleeping Aboriginal camps.

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