CHILL in a Sentence

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212 example sentences for CHILL, such as:

1. There was a slight chill in the air.
2. The wind really chills me to the bone.
3. There's a chill in the air this morning.
4. I'm just chilling out in front of the TV.
5. There's quite a chill in the air this morning.

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 Meanings and Examples of CHILL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
chill
 a.  cool; freeze
Classic Sentence: (197 in 14 pages)
1  She drew aside without speaking, and Mattie and Ethan passed into the kitchen, which had the deadly chill of a vault after the dry cold of the night.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  At times, looking at Zeena's shut face, he felt the chill of such forebodings.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
3  The name threw a chill between them, and they stood a moment looking sideways at each other before Mattie said with a shy laugh.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
4  He fell asleep, and when he woke the chill of the winter dawn was in the room.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
5  Now that the sun was setting in a welter of crimson behind the hills across the Flint River, the warmth of the April day was ebbing into a faint but balmy chill.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
6  The shadows were falling thicker now, the last greenish tinge had left the sky and a slight chill was displacing the balminess of spring.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
7  This was a section that knew the chill of winter, as well as the heat of summer, and there was a vigor and energy in the people that was strange to her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
8  She looked about the hall at the familiar faces, so assured of success, so brave, so devoted, and somehow a cold little chill set in at her heart.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
9  Then as Ashley and Melanie and Pittypat and Scarlett mounted the stairs, lighted by Uncle Peter, a chill fell on her spirit.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
10  Or worse still, thought Scarlett with a chill, like the familiar and dear face of a mother, beautiful and quiet at last, after death agonies.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
11  All the courtesy, all the gentleness Ellen had striven to instill in her had fallen away from her as quickly as leaves fall from trees in the first chill wind of autumn.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
12  But when the first exclamations of affectionate greeting were over and they all had trooped into the dining room to sit down, Scarlett felt a chill.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
13  Cold rain had fallen for days and the house was chill with drafts and dampness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
14  There was an air of studied and determined cheerfulness about the whole family which brought a colder chill to Scarlett's bones than the bitterness of Mimosa or the deathly brooding of Pine Bloom.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
15  That sent a slight chill through her but she rallied and jingled her earbobs again.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
Example Sentence:
1  There's quite a chill in the air this morning.
2  There's a chill in the air this morning.
3  There was a slight chill in the air.
4  With the chill factor, it's nearly minus forty here.
5  I want this beer to chill so I'll leave it in the fridge for an hour.
6  When mists as chill as death wandered to the impulse of east winds along those purple peaks, and rolled down "ing" and holm till they blended with the frozen fog of the beck!
7  The air seemed to have different grades of warmth and chill in it; they were passing a farmyard with strong-smelling, acrid from the sour smell of manure.
8  When mists as chill as death wandered to the impulse of east winds along those purple peaks, and rolled down till they blended with the frozen fog of the beck!
9  In the chill of deep space, bacteria somehow shielded from cosmic radiation might survive dormant for millions of years.
10  I suddenly felt chilled and had to go indoors.
11  The wind really chills me to the bone.
12  I'm just chilling out in front of the TV.
13  Their report on the plans for nuclear war is a chilling document.
14  From this wonderful writer who continues to astonish us, now comes a chilling ghost story.
15  "The verdict is certainly a chilling one for investigative journalism, for people who might come into information that they believe should be part of the public discourse."