How To Use Chilly In A Sentence

  • I grew chilly when the fire went out.
  • I had a garlic chilly mince curry, and she went for a very nice chicken dopiaza.
  • Suddenly, seeking high office, Liddy Dole was described as over-ambitious, chilly and nasty under the "syrupy" Southern accent. Caryl Rivers: Bad, Mad Michelle
  • BERLIN—On a chilly October evening in her austere chancellery, Angela Merkel placed a confidential call to Rome to help save the euro. Deepening Crisis Over Euro Pits Leader Against Leader
  • But when it gets chilly, the island's a fantastic place to stock up on hand-knit Aran sweaters.
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  • 'This house will do whatever is incumbent upon it in good conscience,' said the abbot with chilly emphasis, and watched with an unrevealing face as Drogo Bosiet, with only the curtest of nods by way of leavetaking, turned on his booted heel and strode out of the chapterhouse. The Hermit of Eyton Forest
  • So in the end, she decided to make beef carbonade, the perfect thing for a chilly winter night, and the red meat less likely to upset the bird lady than a murdered chicken might. Fascination
  • The chilly wind whipped strands of dark hair across her face, and the dewy smell of wet grass filled her senses.
  • It's a bit chilly and empty hereabouts.
  • At present the day was drizzling and chilly, while the huge volumes of smoke from a whole forest of factory chimneys tended to impart a deeper shade of dismalness to the dispiriting landscape.
  • The atmosphere turned chilly and I'm now excluded from all future reunions. The Sun
  • He said he had loaned the woman his jumper when the air turned chilly during an evening out after the flight in August, 2001.
  • By the time we got home the weather became dull and chilly.
  • Angus thought everyone looked so chilly that he shivered in sympathy and took a swallow from his flask.
  • A slow, drizzly mist adding a moldy dankness to the chilly air. Earl of Durkness
  • Sit in the garden with its pink roses, lavender and a chiminea to warm you on chilly evenings. Times, Sunday Times
  • However, the child is chilly, wants to be covered, and is thirsty for warm drinks.
  • The Warneford School teacher is swapping chilly Highworth for a tropical island paradise in the Caribbean, where she will be helping to pass a vibrant musical heritage on to a new generation.
  • And it looks like remaining chilly for the rest of the week. Times, Sunday Times
  • The cold rushes in at every crack of door and window, apparently signaled by the flame to invade the house and fill it with chilly drafts and sarcasms on what we call the temperate zone. Backlog Studies
  • A chilly wind penetrates the walls of the shelter and rain drips through a hole in the ceiling.
  • In the chilly evenings, ridiculously seated on striped, collapsible beach chairs that blew over the second we got up, we cooked and ate outside wrapped in warm fleeces and woolly hats.
  • Freud's Jewish family fled Berlin for London in 1933, when he was just eleven (his father, an architect, was Sigmund Freud's son), yet his adolescent drawings retain a German tinge, feeling their way between the chilly stares of Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) or of the Magic Realists (Alexander Kanoldt, for instance) and the more recent, doom-laden stridencies of neoromanticism and noir. The Way to All Flesh
  • The night air was chilly and the wind blew a cold breeze under her hood.
  • The anger was no longer present, but the chilly persona still lingered.
  • Fresh southeasterlies were predicted to bring more rain and chilly temperatures to the Wellington region today but showers should gradually ease tomorrow. Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
  • Once a larder was a chilly food storage room. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the chilly, early hours of the morning in a dimly lit barn, two students are sitting up with a mare in foal. Times, Sunday Times
  • If the cat spends time on the porch or in other chilly areas, you may want to give him one of these heated beds to warm up with.
  • Since when did the wind start delivering shirts to chilly children?
  • When you hear a little crake noise, then you shall know that I am chilly and you shall make more fire.
  • This is a Danish detective series with a terrific northern, chilly atmosphere. Times, Sunday Times
  • I was chilly so I slid into the sweater I had been using as a blanket.
  • But come today, the warm sun had been replaced by a chilly wind and heavy grey clouds and an uninvited rain shower delayed the start of the tennis by an hour.
  • Du'in 'the month thet he's showed signs o' keepin 'comp'ny with me - which he has acchilly asked me to marry him - he' ain't said the first word sech ez you'd expect of a co'tin 'widower, exceptin' one. In Simpkinsville : character tales,
  • The royal voice resounded through the sticky night air, carried beyond its normal range by an abnormally chilly gust of air.
  • Charlotte has been too busy working to get to the beach, and of late the weather's been too chilly to sunbathe or swim in the outdoor pool at her apartment complex.
  •  Bright windows stood undraped to the passing quill, and comfortable scenes of families at their business leaked out and warmed the chilly evening. The Feather
  • After days of chilly early spring weather, a brilliant sun warmed the square, where the Pope sat in an armchair shaded by a canopy.
  • Oh and it’s chilly so wear 2 pairs of socks and a semmit. on May 1, 2007 at 1: 52 am | Reply Another Ex Pat Stands the Church clock at ten to three? « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • Yesterday she was braving a chilly wind for a pot of tea outside Sid's Cafe in the town centre, and wondering why she had left behind the 90 degree heat of Arlington.
  • Chilly formality at the top covered bloody conflict in areas contested by the armies of the two parties, as the one sought to continue its expansion, the other to halt it.
  • True, they get pretty chilly if the fire goes out, but wrapped in a double duvet and lying on your own personal sheepskin, you'll be impervious to the cold.
  • At that point the sun suddenly disappeared behind some clouds and it got very chilly inside the unheated room.
  • It's chilly and alienating, but not unenjoyable. Times, Sunday Times
  • Despite the chilly autumn afternoon, she was wearing a thin cotton dress.
  • The February sun tugged at the clouds and a soft breeze blew chilly.
  • On the third day, the weather had reverted to its seasonal norm—chilly, windy, below-zero temperatures—increasing the "riding vibe," with thicker leggings and jodhpurs, flat black-leather riding boots (see Hermès, Cole Haan and Gucci) or sneakers (Prada and Lanvin), heavy woolen pea coats, cashmere scarves (Lora Piana) and Chanel bags. Springtime in New York
  • With chilly winds caressing the cheeks and pullovers being pulled out of the closet to protect oneself from the nippy winds, December has a magic and charm all its own.
  • I can't explain it: but then, students of the literature emanating from the chilly north-east have always had the same trouble.
  • The "2011 Farmers 'Almanac" says October 4th through 7th will bring clear and incisively chilly weather to the northeast, fair weather to the southeast, a surge of colder air will move in into the south central region, fair chillier weather to the northwest and fair colder weather to the southwest. Predicting The Weather Not Always High-Tech
  • A similar chilly pragmatism is at work in those homeowners now using the courts to remain in a house they defaulted on months or years ago. House Afire
  • A cold, chilly day in a compact and noisy ground and it is going to be stinking for them. Times, Sunday Times
  • The chilly weather and high wind affected his performance, according to Zhang.
  • The Andean sun bears down, harsh and strong, in stark contrast to a chilly wind blowing from the mountain.
  • Today will be chilly with northerly winds and a mix of sunshine and showers. Times, Sunday Times
  • I have an old Shetland wool cardigan jacket, knitted in a massive cable stitch, that I tend to wear on chilly evenings.
  • A little chilly perhaps, but the gambison is nice and warm. Charm XVIII
  • This view has, thus far, met with a rather chilly reception among dinofolk.
  • The countryside gradually lost its brightness as the green grass faded into yellows and the flowers dried up and died, not able to bear the chilly temperatures.
  • They are also ideal for supplementing existing central heating systems, not only throughout the winter months but also on chilly spring and autumn evenings.
  • And the creation of the Buddhistic state of chilly loneliness is not only and indication of his sublime artistic interest but also is closely related to Buddhist aesthetics.
  • Our heightened sensitivity to cold makes a chilly draught invariably feel more uncomfortable than a warm breeze. Times, Sunday Times
  • This month has begun as November ended: largely dry and slightly chilly. Times, Sunday Times
  • The sun disappears behind a cloud and suddenly it feels chilly. Times, Sunday Times
  • The wave simulator can recreate swells of up to two metres - and in these stormy conditions, trainees will learn to cope with a chilly and potentially terrifying capsize.
  • It is chilly enough that where the water is calm a skin of ice has formed.
  • At daybreak on a chilly mid-October morning, Phipps' imposing fleet arrived in the harbour.
  • The 20-minute ride to the dinner table is chilly; you hunker down, gripping a thick blanket and your companion.
  • 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
  • It doesn't have the stand-up-straight chilly galbanum of No. 19 and its ilk. One viscous, one vibrant
  • The element in our last kettle was impervious to descaler and had started to resemble a chilly tundra.
  • It's melancholic, but never chilly in the way that much electronica can be and doesn't ever abstract itself out of existence.
  • Candace Jackson/The Wall Street Journal A favorite apres-ski stop for locals and visitors, the Shed Restaurant & Brewery pours several home brews, such as Mountain Ale or Rude Boy IPA, a hearty beer perfect for chilly nights. Stowe Scales Up
  • She carried a matching jacket, cropped above the waist and short-sleeved, for the Arizona nights had been unusually chilly.
  • She could see every shell which crawled on the white sand at her feet, every rock-fish which played in and out of the crannies, and stared at her with its broad bright eyes; while the great palmate oarweeds which waved along the chasm, half-seen in the glimmering water, seemed to beckon her down with long brown hands to a grave amid their chilly bowers. Westward Ho!
  • Lamps with metallic finishes will transform a chilly interior with a spot of warm sparkle. Times, Sunday Times
  • He had been threatened, his wife was spat at and his family received a chilly reception in stores around town.
  • Although I'm not sure it'll be quite so delicious back in chilly old Blighty.
  • The trendy interior is quite chilly looking and a little forbidding, but the stylists are the absolute opposite - warm and relaxed. Times, Sunday Times
  • The watchman shook himself in the chilly room like a great sopping hound. MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
  • You should see him wrinkle his nose in disgust if it's all chilly and unfriendly.
  • He threw back the cowl but clutched the paenula around his tunic; the place was chilly. The Boat of a Million Years
  • And if the day turns a bit chilly, it's simple just to layer up by wearing a slinky vest underneath, and trousers with a slouchy belt.
  • It will feel decidedly chilly with strong winds and downpours. Times, Sunday Times
  • Crying after Mrs. Moore's chilly reception, Adela begins to cry out Aziz's name.
  • The high pressure also swept in easterly winds that made the east coast wetter and brought some chilly weather. Times, Sunday Times
  • This month has begun as November ended: largely dry and slightly chilly. Times, Sunday Times
  • He has opened his first resort, albeit one in the chilly climes of Oxfordshire. Times, Sunday Times
  • This little chilly brat has a knack for getting onto people's nerves.
  • With the coming of night, however, the wind lost its brick-kiln heat and blew almost chilly, so that Hornblower found himself shivering a little. Hornblower In The West Indies
  • She stared at the mud - browned chilly water in the lake.
  • It may be chilly and drizzly, but the penguin families are out for a day at the beach -- literally. Eileen Ogintz: Communing With the Penguins in Patagonia and California
  • a female form in marble--a chilly but ideal medium for depicting abstract virtues
  • That's what found him under the glare of the strobe lights one chilly Saturday evening amidst the calm environs of the Chiran Fort Club.
  • I can't explain it: but then, students of the literature emanating from the chilly north-east have always had the same trouble.
  • You may also feel irritable, chilly, and thirsty for cold drinks.
  • A chilly, misty wind blows Wednesday as another Bronxian World Series begins; a tough evening for a 79-year-old man in frail health to be out in the weather. Phillies' Lee upstages Steinbrenner's Game 1 visit
  • His whole body hurt, and he was chilly and he wanted the bloody blanket if he cut his wrists getting it.
  • The weather has turned chilly here in Calgary, and I find myself turning to new patterns for knitting.
  • If cool turns to cold, your core temperature becomes threatened and your insides start to feel like your outsides - chilly.
  • The branch entered the market in November of 1994, to a very chilly reception.
  • Although I'm not sure it'll be quite so delicious back in chilly old Blighty.
  • Beyond 40m, the pull begins to ease and I shudder as a thermocline reduces the water temperature from a cosy 26°C to a chilly 19.
  • A wide range of spicy sauces like chilly bean sauce, hoisin sauce and garlic oyster sauce are a must with the food and accompaniments like steamed/fried rice and mixed hakka noodles.
  • It was very romantic if a bit chilly. The Sun
  • Chilly evenings and star-studded clear night skies offer a perfect backdrop for late night partying during the season.
  • Over the next 24 hours, temperatures will rise no higher than 3 deg C but the chilly north east winds will make it feel more like minus 5 deg C.
  • It's all right, no one keeled over; we got the front and back doors open quick enough that the smoke alarms didn't go off, though it was chilly for a bit as the cold air rushed in. P_n_elrod: A real mystery!
  • Afterwards Mum, Amelia and I sat outside a patisserie (which is what they have in Albert Park) in the chilly May sunshine and sipped hot coffees.
  • I am determined to at least go to the beach in swimwear even if I don’t go into the chilly Atlantic, content that I’m not going to make a splash with my swimwear. Bathing Suit Season | The Stiletto Gang
  • The scorching heat of the Oxus plain was a complete contrast, except for the chilly nights, after the terrible glaciers of Kara Dagh. KARA KUSH
  • That ripe, plummy, harvest scent on the chilly air. Times, Sunday Times
  • The mild days and chilly nights extend bloom of summer perennials like columbines and Shasta daisies.
  • She was beginning to feel chilly.
  • That includes digging a hole in the ice for those brave or foolhardy enough to take a very chilly dip.
  • A ripple of laughter echoed through the chilly room.
  • It was a beautiful fall day, the kind where the temperature is cool but not too chilly, so you can get away with wearing your jacket open.
  • The first of this year's meetings on May 8th was well attended though the evening was quite chilly after the great April spell.
  • Its breath created rhythmic puffs of steam in the chilly air.
  • Earlier today, Bill, Powell had rather a chilly reception from the Moroccan king.
  • It is sonically dense and a little chilly; as though Oberst is attempting his own badlands version of Bowie's late-70s Berlin trilogy.
  • Where fog or low cloud lingers it will be chilly for some. Times, Sunday Times
  • Maybe you're like me and low-key despise the chilly weather.
  • Compared to Atlanta and other parts flt country, it's pretty chilly in Tulsa. CNN Transcript Aug 9, 2007
  • In the chilly, early hours of the morning in a dimly lit barn, two students are sitting up with a mare in foal. Times, Sunday Times
  • Andy Gill kept his guitar chilly, without the blanket of fuzz provided by effects pedals and the agreeable tone of valve amps.
  • Or take the track jacket and layer it beneath a slim, quilted vest, add a sporty camisole, a denim miniskirt with tights, and wellie boots for a chic take on a chilly outdoor day look. The Style Checklist
  • But forecasters say the warmer conditions will not reach the South East where chilly air from the continent will prevail. The Sun
  • And if you get chilly on the way to work, slip them into your gloves for ten minutes for toasty warm paws. Times, Sunday Times
  • Friday night lows sink to the chilly 30s in the suburbs, where frost is possible, to near 40 downtown. Forecast: Gusty showers & storms a threat today
  • There is so often, too, something chilly and "unhomely," something pitiless and cruel, about quite rational reform, which alienates the poetic mind. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions
  • Where i live in traverse city the season start is quite chilly this year so i dont exactly know if that would be true. On Early-Season Hunting
  • Mary Ann had made an effort at jazzing up the chilly modern interiors.
  • I enjoy this kind of flip remark, but the chilly response indicated that my new friend didn't, and he summoned over the local vicar, dressed in mufti, to deal with me.
  • We're still old fashioned enough to think salad inappropriate for rainy, chilly days.
  • The DRDO and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) are now working on developing the 'chilly' into a powder that could be coated on fences and ropes to scare away wild pachyderms. 'Naga chilly' to scare away wild elephants
  • Its regular conflagrations of sycamore and beech provide for lots of satisfying crunching about, getting you apple-cheeked and just chilly enough to appreciate going indoors - and what a welcome awaits.
  • The weather grew harsh, chilly and unpredictable.
  • The best pieces are the ones with the least instrumentation - they reward the careful listener with flashes of warmth and meditativeness in the midst of the chilly haze.
  • The atmosphere turned chilly and I'm now excluded from all future reunions. The Sun
  • Consider, natural instinct tells an ant that it has to collect enough food in summer into its secure burrows beneath the earth to feast on during the chilly winter.
  • If cool turns to cold, your core temperature becomes threatened and your insides start to feel like your outsides - chilly.
  • You may still get cold nights or chilly winds that can damage or slow it. The Sun
  • The sun disappears behind a cloud and suddenly it feels chilly. Times, Sunday Times
  • She feels chilly, even with the pink angora sweater she is wearing.
  • … It had been an unusually chilly day in the country for the bright summer season.
  • A slightly chilly northern breeze was blowing but Jo had seen it wise to bring a jacket with him.
  • The rain lightly drizzled around us, the air was chilly and I was thankful for wearing my warm coat over a windcheater.
  • It will still feel chilly in the northeast but relatively mild in the west and southwest. Times, Sunday Times
  • Softer, lower lighting creates that "fall" mood on chilly nights and brighter light for the inevitable onslaught of cloudier/drearier days. Courtney Cachet: Fall Decor... Isn't It Time for Something New?
  • He was as chilly as me, however, and the action did no good.
  • My haul: a long sleeved thermal shirt (for the 4 days a year it gets a little chilly in Miami), 2 T shirts and about 20 pair of socks, $18.
  • Bonfire Night looks chilly and clear for many. Times, Sunday Times
  • The evenings are becoming chilly now, enough to remind us of how very cold it will be, come winter.
  • I vote hotel to regroup; Tylenol for baby post warm bath [big fan of Johnson's Baby Lavendar bath] and warm feed then to bed [I've been known to prewarm the crib with a hot water bottle if the room is chilly] and a full physical for Mom. Look At Me Not Sleeping | Her Bad Mother
  • Though the wind was brisk and chilly, the sun was bright and warm.
  • And if the day turns a bit chilly, it's simple just to layer up by wearing a slinky vest underneath, and trousers with a slouchy belt.
  • Nat's face was set, his usually warm, soft expression was hard and chilly, his cloudy eyes hinting at sorrow and dejection.
  • The Supreme Court could accept it, but I expect that anyone that would appeal wouldn't just have a chilly reception, but a perfectly glacial reception.
  • The weather grew harsh, chilly and unpredictable.
  • The pool registers a seriously chilly 38 degrees, so swimming is out.
  • Then it turned chilly and we got in her car and put the heater on. Times, Sunday Times
  • A typical room was drafty and chilly in winter and humid and sweltering in summer.
  • Following him as he assumes Greenleaf's personality and attempts to elude his pursuers after the murder is a riveting yet slightly chilly exercise.
  • I have an immersion heater so we'll have hot water, but the radiators are stone cold and it's chilly this evening.
  • The week ahead also looks changeable and rather chilly. Times, Sunday Times
  • Each one glaring reflected light from the chilly flourescent fixtures scattered everywhere above our heads. Something Wrong
  • Selling poppies on a chilly day. Times, Sunday Times
  • Shivering in the chilly air, she groped across to the light switch.
  • In the chilly, predawn hours in Sao Paulo, Brazil, more than 1,000 people mill around a parking lot, waiting anxiously to have their picture taken.
  • You may still get cold nights or chilly winds that can damage or slow it. The Sun
  • But to Thayer's chagrin, the movie meets with a chilly reception from critics and public alike.
  • I was told to dress warmly, for the Sierra Nevada, as the name implies, are snowbound nearly all the year, and even in July and August when the road is clear, it's still chilly at 11,000 feet above sea level.
  • In 2004 a probe from the Cassini spacecraft will be dropped into Titan's chilly clouds for the first close-up glimpse of this oddball moon.
  • A lot of hardy Scots braved what were chilly conditions and sported swimming costumes and even bikinis.
  • The scorching summer heat, heavy downpours, or chilly winters cannot dampen their spirits.
  • The faux ponyskin, with a long pile, is ideal for chilly country nights. Times, Sunday Times
  • You should look around for a chic jacket to have to hand in case the day turns chilly. Times, Sunday Times
  • I was also glad that she hadn't kept me waiting since the sky was overcast and it was slightly chilly.
  • On a chilly Saturday afternoon in Aichi prefecture, a short drive from Toyota’s world headquarters in Toyota City, Toya removes his right shoe to demonstrate. Japan’s `Mileage Maniacs’ Hack Hybrids and Beat Toyota Engineers | Impact Lab
  • Are your windows drafty, hard to open, and covered with frost on chilly mornings?
  • It was a chilly March day in 1972, the eve of Good Friday, and the Queen shivered as she first entered York Minster.
  • Just wear enough if it's chilly and don't dally afterwards!
  • If it is chilly out, logs for the wood burner are provided. The Sun
  • Today looks chilly and showery with some heavy, thundery downpours. Times, Sunday Times
  • The chilly night wind hits me hard and I shrink inside that same tweed coat from this morning.
  • Older people who hibernate during these chilly months could lose stamina, strength, and flexibility.
  • The downpours and chilly north winds of August have given way to calmer early autumn conditions of sunny days with misty, cold nights and ground frost. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sunday, July 26, 2009 the hills visit oregon - day two, part one my sister, her husband and their two boys, bryce (5) and charlie (3), visited oregon for the first time this week. we drove out to rockaway beach for the first two nights and stayed in a cute little beach house called the seagull's nest. early sunday morning, we took leila out for a chilly and foggy romp on the beach. The hills visit oregon - day two, part one
  • I was slightly afraid of their chilly distant politeness.
  • Today will be chilly with northerly winds and a mix of sunshine and showers. Times, Sunday Times
  • But New Zealand wasn't ready for a welfare state and the proposal met with a chilly reception.
  • She stood in the door frame, half way between leaving the house and stepping into the chilly outdoors.
  • The early fall blast of intense heat follows an unusually cool summer that often found beaches covered in overcast and whipped by chilly winds. Los Angeles Heat Wave Bakes At Record 113 Degrees
  • It was the place to linger with a girl, but presently it grew chilly, so we went down to our hand of picquet. THE NUMBERS
  • The conversation had not been going swimmingly, and I'll take part of the blame for the chilly turn.
  • Some of the old-line San Mateo types (she had taught herself not to say Hillsborough) still regarded Prue from a chilly distance. FURTHER TALES OF THE CITY
  • Sorry, but even in summer it feels a bit chilly there, like a threadbare university club that only charter members find cozy.
  • Two were in Victorian villas with French windows opening out onto small balconies that overlook the ice-cream vans, pebbly beaches and chilly blue waves of the town's seafront.

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