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Example sentences for "chilly"

Lexicographically close words:
chilling; chillness; chills; chillun; chilluns; chilt; chimbley; chimbleys; chimbly; chime
  1. One chilly gloaming there was no calling at the Rhonefoot.

  2. It was a chilly job to handle them, but Kit did not hesitate a moment.

  3. The young man grumblingly assented, and within that chilly enclosure he stood swearing under his breath and kicking his heels.

  4. But through the dreary mists of doubtings and black fogs of unfaith the lamp of the Church, a shining point, drew to it from his chilly ecstasies this hedonist.

  5. There were scarce three hours of daylight in the afternoon, and night set in chilly and damp.

  6. The child's words seemed to bring the chilly atmosphere of opposition about old Jolyon, and disclose all the menace to his new-found freedom.

  7. Bring Mr. Craddock one of my shawls, too; he will be likely to find it chilly after the heat of town.

  8. In cottages and little inns it is the same thing--a litter of straw, and men lying on it in the chilly weather.

  9. Here the entertainment is a glass of thickened tea, and the stove is frequently not lighted even on a chilly evening.

  10. He sat himself down, in spite of the chilly fog which obscured the farther bank and left its lights suspended upon a blank surface, upon one of the riverside seats, and let the tide of disillusionment sweep through him.

  11. It means, I should say, that he finds you chilly and unsympathetic.

  12. There was another sly visit to the chilly spare chamber.

  13. Minty worked with trembling fingers in the chilly seclusion of the spare chamber, but she made a neat package.

  14. The hillsides loomed black out of chilly mist that wrapped the serried ranks of climbing pines in their smoky folds.

  15. None of us quite liked the task before us, for man's vigor is never at its highest in the chilly dawn; but I remembered Ormond's eagerness to continue the journey.

  16. Earl was much impressed with the audience, which, nevertheless, seemed rather chilly and unresponsive.

  17. Darkness had settled on us, long before we reached it; and, but for the chilly sheen of the sheet which draped the earth with its spotless white, it might have been difficult to keep the track.

  18. The log was placed upon the embers by old "Zac," and, in a brief time, the cheerful blaze from it was again warming the chilly temperature of the saloon.

  19. I had actually felt chilly riding in the wagon, and much enjoyed a breakfast Mrs. Culbertson had kindly provided for me.

  20. Sprague has been drawing all day, and I a good part of it; and it has been so chilly and cold that we have had fires in several parts of the fort.

  21. It was a chilly evening, but there were drops of perspiration still standing there.

  22. Don't laugh at me for being such a chilly mortal, please," she enjoined.

  23. Huddled in the back, in a chilly corner, under a lap robe, she counted and re-counted her money.

  24. Jean left her overnight bag and went outside and stood a while on the steps, the rain a benison: at a nearby baker she bought rolls and drank coffee at the only table in the chilly entry.

  25. The chilly air nipped his face and hands, as he stood motionless urinating.

  26. A chilly gust of wind blew open the terrace doors and lifted the curtains.

  27. Plumes of mist danced around her head as the warmth of the cottage bled outside into the chilly air.

  28. Running through the chilly night she remembered the gloves in her pocket.

  29. Normally, the horses would be hosed down, to both clean and cool them, but the groom had not yet arrived, so they allowed some time for the horses to cool down a little in the chilly morning air.

  30. It was cold when I left Kanawha, but the chilly air had not followed me beyond New Orleans, and I had there packed into my trunk all my warm clothing and checked it through to Mexico.

  31. The excuse for the wearing of these great hats upon all occasions is, that in the chilly air of these high altitudes, it becomes a necessary protection.

  32. The downpour was increasing and the air had become so chilly that Harvey passed inside to the sitting-room.

  33. The sun was hidden by clouds, which increased in density and number, and the air became so chilly that both shivered.

  34. Her manner nowadays was very chilly towards her former favourite.

  35. After that she had known only the conscientiously chilly care of the Muratas.

  36. The window, a grey patch barred with darker grey, was like a dim chilly ghost gazing at me from the opposite wall.

  37. The air was a little too chilly for pleasure boating.

  38. A misty morning which broke into rain, which drizzled all day, enough to make it sun-less and disagreeable outside and chilly in tent for want of fire.

  39. We took a farewell look at Nashville by twilight, then crawled into our house to avoid the chilly air that was growing cold fast, to take all the sleep possible, tucked in snugly, three in a bed.

  40. In early spring, when winds blow chilly cold, The yellowhammer, trailing grass, will come To fix a place and choose an early home, With yellow breast and head of solid gold.

  41. We are attending to a yellower tulip, no doubt, when the only daffodil that Shakespeare knew is opening in the chilly wood.

  42. At the same time I felt that eye watching me, and a chilly sweat broke out upon my limbs; but I execrated my folly, and refused to turn my head.

  43. There in the chilly gloom, straining her ears to catch the lightest footfall of approaching peril, but hearing only the hushed thunder of the surf, stood a lonely ewe over the lamb to which she had given birth in the night.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chilly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aloof; anesthetized; arctic; autistic; backward; bashful; blank; bleak; blunt; bracing; brisk; catatonic; chill; chilly; cold; constrained; cool; detached; discreet; dispassionate; distant; drugged; dull; exclusive; expressionless; forbidding; freezing; fresh; frigid; frosted; frosty; frozen; gelid; glacial; guarded; heartless; icy; immovable; impassive; impersonal; inaccessible; incompatible; inhospitable; inimical; insusceptible; introverted; invigorating; lukewarm; modest; nippy; objective; obtuse; offish; passionless; remote; removed; repressed; reserved; restrained; reticent; retiring; shaky; shivering; shivery; shrinking; soulless; spiritless; stiff; stimulating; stony; strained; subdued; suppressed; temperate; tense; unamiable; unapproachable; uncongenial; undemonstrative; unemotional; unfeeling; unfriendly; unimpassioned; unloving; unresponsive; unsociable; unsocial; unsusceptible; unsympathetic; untouchable; withdrawn