How To Use Cold-blooded In A Sentence

Cold-blooded animals depend on the temperature of their immediate environment.
Fish are amphibian bearcat animals that are about ectothermic (previously cold-blooded), covered with scales, and able with two sets of commutual fins and several unpaired fins. MyLinkVault Newest Links
What you hate most in your partner is that the person is ruthless, cold-blooded, and/or ironic.
Cold-blooded animals depend on the temperature of their immediate environment.
At the time I was outraged, and I can still feel anger about that cold-blooded viciousness.

It was a cold-blooded and brutal murder of people who were running away.
A jury in Canada has found three members of an Afghan family guilty of drowning three teenage sisters and another woman in what the judge described as "cold-blooded, shameful murders" resulting from a "twisted concept of honour". 'Honour killings': Canadian jury finds Afghan family guilty
Butterflies are cold-blooded and bask in the sun to raise their body temperatures.
But several hunts organized by the city government over the past months turned up empty-handed, apparently since cold-blooded reptiles are not very active during the chillier months.
He's really a wildlife photographer; to get his shots, he turns into an adventurer who has learned much about reptiles - snakes being his favorite cold-blooded creature.
It was a cold-blooded brutal killing, carried out in a busy town-centre street at 3pm on a Thursday afternoon.
Even with the occasional glamor and glitz of Chasm City's environment, and the unmistakable steampunk and William Gibson references in visuals and invention, the overall sense of doom and the obviously cold-blooded souls of the main characters would get to anybody (there is not a single good-natured human being along the way). Alastair Reynolds "Chasm City" and "Revelation Space"
The cold-blooded murder galvanized the public AND the authorities.
They would talk about it as if it was a calling or a vocation rather than a cold-blooded act, and that was tough. The Sun
But until Friday, nobody had seen what Bill Cox and his co-workers saw — something with a devilish underbite, sinister eyes and a cold-blooded appetite. Aligator Found in Chicago River « Skid Roche
Did nobody tell them that they are cold-blooded reptiles before they wasted the cost of a helicopter? The Sun
Popular British and Australian historians have savaged the commanders at the Dardanelles as cold-blooded murderers.
The judge said it had been a terrifying cold-blooded attack. The Sun
Truly cold-blooded animals like lizards, newts, turtles, and crocodilians, which are superabundant farther south are missing, he said.
Crocodiles are cold-blooded creatures, and they keep their temperature constant by basking in the sun and staying in the water at night.
But the cold-blooded insects were force-feeding him with the jail's evening meal - yuck!
I wanted to know because I'd found the cold-blooded list of war damages Marcel had claimed from the Ministry for Reconstruction. WHITE LIES
Did nobody tell them that they are cold-blooded reptiles before they wasted the cost of a helicopter? The Sun
When given a picture of a triceratops and told it was a dinosaur, the children correctly inferred that it belonged to the cold-blooded class of animals.
As for the enemy soldiers, they were either harmless boobies or cold-blooded psychopaths.
Their cold-blooded killers had then dragged their lifeless bodies upstairs to the bathroom.
A jury on Sunday found an Afghan father, his wife and their son guilty of killing three teenage sisters and a co-wife in what the judge described as "cold-blooded, shameful murders" resulting from a "twisted concept of honor. SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter
McCoy could never let go of his view of Spock as Vulcan, because as far as the large-hearted, overly-emotional McCoy was concerned, Spock's "cold-blooded logic" was a character flaw. Lance Mannion:
It dissects (a shade too scientifically and cold-bloodedly at times perhaps) the sentiments and emotions associated with attack and defence; the impulses that eventuate in heroism; the alternating super-sensitiveness and callousness of the nerves; fear and the mastery of fear; the 'hope deferred that maketh the heart sick'; the devious stratagems of the terrible 'cafard' (blues). The Jervaise Comedy
The most cruelly-worded, cold-blooded, data - backed denunciation, using every needlesharp descriptive usage in the book (you more than most will recognize that sense of a job well done as 'publish' is pressed), is delivered with so much more ooomph when delivered with good nature, (despite the rage and contempt experienced while concocting the venom-tipped arrows). Farewell Bill Deedes
The prodigiously gifted character actress Margo Martindale Million Dollar Baby heads up the clan as Mags Bennett, a marijuana queenpin who seamlessly slides between warm-hearted affection and cold-blooded murder. Cheers & Jeers: Justified's Great Big Bads
The cold-blooded taking of life that has so traumatised the people of Norway and the whole world is evil. Times, Sunday Times
The judge described him as "a cold-blooded killer".
You've made it very clear you believe a teenager could commit a cold-blooded murder.
Chances are you had no idea one of the most cold-blooded, ruthless murderers in Canadian history was committing atrocities in your own back yard.
It is unconscionable to think that people are dropping like flies on Syrian streets, the injured are hiding in private homes to avoid capture or cold-blooded murder, the funeral procession are being shot at with many killed at a time they bereave the dead, the detained are tortured and many die and are buried in mass graves, yet the international community seems only willing to extend words of comfort. . . Notable & Quotable
Cold-blooded animals depend on the temperature of their immediate environment.
One species of bacterium sickens cattle, for example, while another attacks frogs, fishes, and other cold-blooded animals.
The worst is simply cold-blooded murder. The Sun
Still, bears are warm-blooded mammals and thus are more similar to humans than are cold-blooded reptiles like the alligators.
The cold-blooded little tramp shacked up with that guy there!
THEY are the devoted couples who would do anything for each other - including cold-blooded murder. The Sun
Marty is a cold-blooded killer with a warm heart and a vulnerable ego.
But little children who are so filled with anger and fury that they commit cold-blooded murder are not the products of a healthy upbringing.
Greenhouse gases are pushing up temperatures, forcing the cold-blooded reptiles to spend more time hiding in cool spots. The Sun
Their cold-blooded killers had then dragged their lifeless bodies upstairs to the bathroom.
There is something cold-blooded and hard-hearted about so much mainstream news reporting.
This is not an action of the Resistance, but cold-blooded murder in the service of rotten political objectives.
This was a brutal and cold-blooded killing.
Fish are cold-blooded, that is they are unable to maintain a body temperature different from that of their surroundings. Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
Using extensive interviews with survivors on both sides, as well as after-action reports by the U.S. Army itself, he reconstructs the battle with cold-blooded precision.
The third puzzle is why all of this should happen in warm-blooded vertebrates but not in cold-blooded vertebrates.
It may be said that no one has ever really answered him; the difficulties with which he played so nicely being really connected with those "antinomies," or contradictions, or inconsistencies, of our thoughts, which more than two thousand years afterwards Kant noted as actually inherent in the mind itself -- a certain constitutional weakness or limitation there, in dealing by way of cold-blooded reflexion with the direct presentations of its experience. Plato and Platonism
Of cold-blooded creatures, lobsters and crayfish are particularly prized for their delicious ‘tail’ meat.
Shortly before I met you I was this cold-blooded animal engulfed in murder and fleshly desires.
Large rocks or a stone wall make great basking spots for these cold-blooded insects.
The cold-blooded murder of two people is a heinous crime.
When given a picture of a triceratops and told it was a dinosaur, the children correctly inferred that it belonged to the cold-blooded class of animals.
Like your butterflies, beneficial insects are cold-blooded and don't like cold, windy weather.
Everyone's stomach is built for passionate wooing-even yours, you cold-blooded young vestal. THE THORN BIRDS
The scientists were keen to clarify the term "cold-blooded", which - although a familiar description used for many reptiles, amphibians and fish - can be misleading. BBC News - Home
Their cold-blooded killers had then dragged their lifeless bodies upstairs to the bathroom.
That's why, dare I say, the anchorperson has always got to stand back, even at the risk of seeming a little cold-blooded at times, so as not to impose our emotions on others.
She made no secret of her intention to evince the interest she felt in his welfare by a considerable bequest in her will; but, on accompanying Mrs.K. to the theatre to see Kean perform _Luke_, she was so appalled by the cold-blooded villany of the character, that, attributing the skill of the actor to the actual possession of the fiendlike attributes, her regard was turned into suspicion and distrust. The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection
he cold-bloodedly planned the murder of his boss
Afghan family guilty in honour killing A CANADIAN jury has found an Afghan father, his wife and their son guilty of killing three teenage sisters and another wife in what the judge described as "cold-blooded, shameful murders" resulting from a "twisted concept of honour". NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
After all, crocodiles are cold-blooded reptiles, and don't live in these climes.
Aquatic creature, air-breathing, cold-blooded, fish-eating, huge body, long neck, small head — did you know the word plesiosaur means ‘next to a lizard’? The Boggart and The Monster
For example, one might think that skeletal growth rates would be higher for an endothermic animal than for an ectothermic, or cold-blooded, one.
“You know, what you refer to as cold-blooded murder, others term justifiable homicide.” Earl of Durkness
Ex-con Johnny Clay gets cold-blooded Arane to shoot a racehorse and chess-playing thug Maurice to start a commotion while he half-inches the green.
Since it is unlikely that a large warm-blooded animal will loose this metabolic characteristic and become cold-blooded, there is a solid case that Triassic thecodonts were also ectotherms.
Their son was killed in murky circumstances amounting to cold-blooded murder. The Sun
Considering how often we are told that Avon père and fils are cold-blooded killers with steel traps for minds, they are both incredibly stupid.
When an alligator is resting, it breathes intermittently, taking one breath per minute, much like other cold-blooded reptiles.
Thus, _All fish are cold-blooded_, ∴ _some cold-blooded things are fish: _ this is a sound inference by the mere manner of expression; and equally sound is the inference, _All fish are warm-blooded_, ∴ _some warm-blooded things are fish_. Logic Deductive and Inductive
Heartbreak has turned to pure joy for four-year-old Jordan Deegan after big-hearted Observer readers rallied to replace his only toy stolen by cold-blooded thieves.
Our adventurer, who had not been seen by any of the witnesses during the affray, and who had been found unarmed after it was over, was next examined before a magistrate, and his examination ended in his committal to take his trial at the same time and place with Andrew McCoy, for bushranging and robbery, both of which at that time were equally capital offences with the most cold-blooded brutal murder. Ralph Rashleigh
This was a brutal and cold-blooded killing.
Cold-blooded murder, armed hijackings, burglary, robbery and assault are rife.
But however evil the crime and the criminal, it still does not justify cold-blooded murder by the state.
But they made up for it, discussing and comparing the more loathsome features of their disease in the most cold-blooded, matter-of-fact way. THE SPIKE
On the other hand, could the eparch afford to ignore cold-blooded murder? Bridge of the Separator
What a malicious, cold-blooded thing for a corporation to say.
They landed in her cleavage, and when she looked up at me to complain, she must have seen the look of a cold-blooded murderer in my eyes because she shut her trap real quick.
Could anybody be so unfeeling, cold-blooded, unmerciful and cruel I hear you ask?
I started shooting, it was just cold-blooded murder.
The stag is taken to the kennel and skinned, and all the meat cut into small pieces and put again into the hide, and the hounds then, in this cold-blooded way, rush at a mess, instead of the whole pack, in a state of excitement, falling on the hunted animal reeking with fatigue. The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
This "pose" might look weird to some people, but you have to understand that Trish is cold-blooded and likes mammals 'body heat. Archive 2008-07-01
He is also a cruel, cold-blooded, wicked, sadistic, brutal, ruthless and evil person.
In genes of cold-blooded animals, plants, and unicellular organisms, these regularities are weaker and often not consistent.
They committed an adult crime, cold-blooded murder. The Sun
Bertram Cornell, the indurate, cold-blooded Englishman, is struck by many arrows but remains upright and still as a statue as his comrades make their way to safety. “Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins.”
Most reptiles have three-chambered hearts, a design that makes them cold-blooded.
This can be looked upon as cold-blooded and barbaric and not fit for today's modern society.
“The cold-blooded killing of an Arizona rancher is a sad and sobering reminder of the threats to public safety that exist in our border communities,” Giffords said. Think Progress » Lou Dobbs: ‘I’m A Man About Building Solutions,’ Not ‘Radicalism’
Several hunts organized by the city government over the past months turned up empty-handed, apparently since cold-blooded reptiles are not very active during the chillier months.
Norton was sensitive and excitable, though he never lost his head, while Kreis and Hamilton were like a pair of cold-blooded savages, seeking out tender places to prod and poke.
KINGSTON, Ontario AP - A jury on Sunday found an Afghan father, his wife and their son guilty of killing three teenage sisters and a co-wife in what the judge described as "cold-blooded, shameful murders" resulting from a "twisted concept of honor. USATODAY.com News
Now, in these playoffs, the Lakers have become brutal, efficient, and cold-blooded killers.
She flipped her visor down and scanned on infrared, the only reading she picked up were from some cold-blooded bugs… dozens of them.
Such a cold-blooded and barbaric punishment degrades everyone involved in the murder.
Among the animals, cold-blooded forms like dinosaurs would have been affected more than the warm-blooded mammals.
Jana is a cold-blooded killer treated like a heroine and why … because of a soap opera cliche, the behavior-changing brain tumor. Channel Surfing with C.T. | the TV addict
All cold-blooded animals, all warm-blooded animals and all plants have a place on this Earth.
Apparently their rhythm depended on their body temperature, which is to be expected in cold-blooded animals.
In heterothermic (cold-blooded) invertebrates, hairiness and melanism (dark pigmentation) enable them to warm up in the summer season. General characteristics of arctic species and their adaptations in the context of changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation levels
cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion
Truly cold-blooded animals like lizards, newts, turtles, and crocodilians, which are superabundant farther south are missing, he said.
For example, one might think that skeletal growth rates would be higher for an endothermic animal than for an ectothermic, or cold-blooded, one.
The Ogaden rebels, meanwhile, issued a statement condemning what they called the "cowardly and cold-blooded attack". Ethiopia, UN Mount Joint Search Operation for Kidnapped Aid Workers
They loot the evidence room to sell drugs, they run prostitution rings, they form untouchable rogue "sub-patrols" of ultra-violent, steroid-pumped jump-out boys, such as the pigs who cold-bloodedly, unprovokedly murdered Adolph Grimes III outside his grandma's house and then lied about it. NOLA Indymedia
“You know, what you refer to as cold-blooded murder, others term justifiable homicide.” Earl of Durkness
In heterothermic (cold-blooded) invertebrates, hairiness and melanism (dark pigmentation) enable them to warm up in the summer season. General characteristics of arctic species and their adaptations in the context of changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation levels
Miss Woodhouse said she had been left distraught by the cold-blooded murder, which has baffled police.
And many criminologists say that despite her cold-blooded killing, she does not fit the serial-killer mould.
In a statement the NP expressed shock and revulsion at what it called the senseless and cold-blooded murders. ANC Daily News Briefing
Mammals have a much better chance of survival here, as they generate body heat internally and do not need to rely on heat from the sun like cold-blooded animals.
Truly cold-blooded animals like lizards, newts, turtles, and crocodilians, which are superabundant farther south are missing, he said.
They spoke of a kind, polite and popular son who would be incapable of cold-blooded murder.
DHEA and NPY should not turn soldiers into cold-blooded killing machines, however, as they don't work by lessening emotional responses to disturbing situations.
Marty is a cold-blooded killer with a warm heart and a vulnerable ego.
They were better at dumping heat as they lacked any insulation and PERHAPS the early crurotarsans were also cold-blooded and thus required much less food, though some of them seem to have a primitive sort or mass-homeothermy. Life's Time Capsule: Making of Karoo Sunset
Hogben & Kirk were trying to demonstrate that the body temperatures of animals like slugs and earthworms whose external surfaces are always wet are not necessarily in equilibrium with the temperature of their surroundings, despite the fact that they are poikilothermic or cold-blooded. How to take a slug's temperature and what you can learn from it
Nay, I am no cold-blooded theorist, no thick-hided dogmatist; nor am I a chastely simple young man mooning in virginal innocence. The Kempton-Wace Letters
Mean spirited gossips painted C.C. as a cold-blooded murderer but his dead brother would have been a more likely choice for that role.
And Giles had always thought it rather far-fetched that a milksop like Desmond would have committed cold-blooded murder. How to Woo a Reluctant Lady
Greenhouse gases are pushing up temperatures, forcing the cold-blooded reptiles to spend more time hiding in cool spots. The Sun
Yes, the vapidness bothers me, but it's the cold-blooded calculatedness that really bothers me, I guess. The Truth About Cars
Norton was sensitive and excitable, though he never lost his head, while Kreis and Hamilton were like a pair of cold-blooded savages, seeking out tender places to prod and poke.
It became clear to us that we were witnessing the aftermath of a massacre, the cold-blooded butchery of helpless and defenceless civilians.
They were only too conscious of what their participation was going to involve - namely cold-blooded murder. Times, Sunday Times
But still, for me, the death sentence is too cold-blooded, too unfeeling.
I couldn't do anything so ridiculous as streaking cold-blooded!
One species of bacterium sickens cattle, for example, while another attacks frogs, fishes, and other cold-blooded animals.
There is a story about a frog, which, being a cold-blooded creature, adapts its temperature to its surroundings.
It was a tragedy, she said, and a matter of cold-blooded, ruthless disregard for human, civilised values. THE SCAR
But absurdly he denied it was cold-blooded mass murder. The Sun
Many feminists considered sexuality purely a matter ofpersonal desire, and the idea that lesbianism could be a politicaldecision was perceived as "cold-blooded".
The pair make two of the most cold-blooded and vile antiheroes ever found in a Hollywood Western.
The former managing director of a sheet metal firm died yesterday after he was gunned down by a hitman in a ‘savage, cold-blooded killing’ outside his home.
The killing was cold-blooded, and those who committed this atrocity should be tried and punished.
Not a man with a strong nerve, and certainly on the surface not one who could carry out a cold-blooded murder.
Four Marines have also been implicated in the cold-blooded murder, which is believed to have been contracted out to professional sharpshooters.
He had been accused as cold-blooded for such an emotionless image.
Interviews with cold-blooded killers, spine-chilling crime-scene photographs and a deluge of gory details make this a favourite for those who are fascinated with the macabre - so it should prove popular.
Fish are cold-blooded and breathe underwater using gills; whales, on the other hand, maintain a warm and constant body temperature.
But because many species are cold-blooded, some sharks eat only about 2 percent of their body weight each day.
The android assassin Aphrodite IV is back in town, and Saraâ€ ™ s confrontation with the cold-blooded killer will force her to face her own actions during â€œWar of the Witchblades. â€ Top Cow Comics for February 2010 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
Cold-blooded animals depend on the temperature of their immediate environment.
Overcrowded with 100, 000 cold-blooded bees, the hive had become a warm-blooded organism.
This was indicative of his cold-blooded and hard-hearted attitude towards Africans.
But they capped the climax with what I must cold-bloodedly characterize as the baldest attempt at a dirty fraud I ever encountered. North of Fifty-Three
Reptiles have generally been described as sluggish, cold-blooded ectotherms.
Thus, _All fish are cold-blooded_, ∴ _some cold-blooded things are fish: _ this is a sound inference by the mere manner of expression; and equally sound is the inference, _All fish are warm-blooded_, ∴ _some warm-blooded things are fish_. Logic Deductive and Inductive
Sahirn P’Thall stared back at Cogley with a withering glare that the defense attorney would have called cold-blooded, if Kradians had circulatory systems. The Case of the Colonist’s Corpse
Just so everyone is clear, this individual, who writes under the psuedonym of "rectifier", is advocating the premediated, cold-blooded murder of American citizens, with malice aforethought, after first laying in wait for those citizens, and enticing them into a trap. Walls of the city
Professor Herbert argues that such an arrangement is neither cold-blooded nor out of keeping for a family.
That would be like giving one particular genus of fish a name meaning "legless", "hairless" or "cold-blooded" when all fish share those traits. Languagehat.com: Q.PHEEVR ON 'BUTTERFLY.'
Evidently, if these two foregoing statements are true, Mr. Froude must join us in thinking that a man whose mind could be warped by external influences from the softest commiseration for the sufferings of his kind, one year, into being the cold-blooded deviser of the readiest method for slaughtering unarmed holiday - makers, the very next year, is not the kind of ruler whom he and we so cordially desiderate. West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas
To be certain, the forum member from yesterday was only using specious emotional arguments in order to try and limit your lawfully carrying a firearm, while "rectifier" is advocating cold-blooded, premeditated murder, but in the end, they are both seeking to accomplish the same thing: control over your life, and limiting your rights. Walls of the city
But still, for me, the death sentence is too cold-blooded, too unfeeling.
Their deaths were cold-blooded murder. Times, Sunday Times
cold-blooded killing
The specific atrocity of such spectacles -- unknown to the earlier ages which they called barbarous -- was due to the cold-blooded selfishness, the hideous realism of a refined, delicate, æsthetic age. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03
While most mammals and birds show signs of REM sleep, reptiles and other cold-blooded animals do not.

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