How to Use bone-chilling in a Sentence

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• 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
• For many in the U.S., it’s been a bone-chilling winter.
  — Kristine Solomon, Travel + Leisure, 10 Feb. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Lucy Wallace, a recent transplant from San Diego, had been warned about the bone-chilling winters of her new hometown, Minneapolis.
  — Michael Levenson, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2023
• But that angry agent has bone-chilling words of warning about what the industry is facing if people don’t get back to normal relatively soon.
  — Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 July 2023
• Throughout the trailer, characters living inside of the Sanctuary give bone-chilling pleas directly to the camera, begging audiences for help and aching for aid from the wrath of Lilith.
  — Mckinley Franklin, Variety, 25 May 2023
• January is the city’s coldest month when the average high temperature hits just 37 degrees and the average low is a bone-chilling 24 degrees.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 30 Oct. 2023
• Variety has been given exclusive access to the film’s bone-chilling trailer (see below).
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 26 Oct. 2023
• In further tying the tradition of fairy tales to horror, Bodin delivers a bone-chilling experience with standout performances and a hell of a third act.
  — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Dec. 2023
• The survey window was interrupted by bone-chilling cold and snowstorms, possibly shortening the workweek and raising hourly wages.
  — Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• Naturally, several years of layoffs, strikes, and a bone-chilling macroeconomy have left many workers on edge.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2024
• The director’s control of tonal and visual storytelling, his meticulous attention to detail and his bone-chilling use of sound make this a uniquely disturbing experience.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2024
• Texas, Louisiana and Missouri are among several states bracing for dangerous, bone-chilling temperatures over the weekend and early next week.
  — Max Golembo, ABC News, 11 Jan. 2024
• Detectives Rea Thomas and Vikram Singh are thrust into a dark world where these bone-chilling murders are not just random acts of violence but also part of a sinister plan orchestrated by a century-old secret society.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Feb. 2024
• The Brit director’s return after 10 years does not disappoint, effectively reinventing the Holocaust drama with this bone-chilling snapshot of a Nazi family living in bucolic tranquility in the shadow of Auschwitz.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Dec. 2023
• Prosecutors said home video surveillance showed Thomas and his older brother Anthony shivering inside the bitterly cold garage two nights before the younger boy’s death, when the temperature dropped to a bone-chilling 19 degrees.
  — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 4 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Oct 2024