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Example sentences for "cold and"

  • The last night had been bitterly cold and frosty, and as we were badly clad, and without the means of making a large or permanent fire, we all felt acutely the severity of the weather.

  • The afternoon had been hot, but the night set in cold and clear, and all appearance of rain was gone.

  • What then could have been the inducement to commit so cold and ruthless an act?

  • All this life is cold and dreary, Painful here is every motion, As I linger in the waters, As I wander through the ocean.

  • My soul is in ecstasies, but it lives in such a weak and wretched shell; and because the soul is all ablaze with the fires of rapturous delight, the whole warmth has entered it, and the poor mortal shell is cold and trembling.

  • Come into the house, Conrad; I am cold and tired.

  • Do not speak of your heart; it is cold and hard.

  • The climate is still severe, cold and wet; deep snows fell everywhere.

  • This was in an age of cold and darkness; there was yet no sun or moon.

  • The light flickered, cold and cheerless, in the green lamps as we went up the stone steps.

  • The wide world seemed suddenly a cold and far-off place, and $6 but small backing in an attack upon it, with a hungry horse waiting to be fed.

  • Illustration: "The wide world seemed suddenly a cold and far-off place.

  • That region is treeless, rocky, windswept, cold and inhospitable.

  • Often the bluebirds and robins migrate northward too early, encounter blizzards, and perish in large numbers from snow, sleet, cold and hunger.

  • It is the rule of a sitting bird to sit tight, not to be scared off by trifles, and to take great risks rather than expose her eggs to cold and destruction.

  • But almost invariably the wild bear when killed is fairly well fed and prosperous; and I fancy that no one ever found a bear that had died of cold and exposure.

  • I'm afraid the little girl must be cold and lonely.

  • It was the strangest and prettiest contrast, to hear your small piping child's voice singing of storms and shipwrecks, and thunder and lightning, and reefing sails in cold and darkness, without the least idea of what it all meant.

  • Cold and pale--with horror of herself confessed in the action, simple as it was--she drew back from him in dead silence.

  • Sometimes it sits on chairs which are as cold and as hard as iron, or timidly feels the legs of immovable tables which might be legs of elephants so far as size is concerned.

  • Your eyes have since been very cold and critical.

  • It seems as if my words had turned her into ice, she is so cold and calm; and yet her eyes were red with weeping.

  • Ida replied in perfect courtesy and not with unnecessary brevity, but if her words were polished, they were also as cold and hard as ice.

  • I agree with you, Miss Mayhew, that general good-will is as cold and thin as moonshine.

  • There, cold and lifeless, and the heart which just now was the seat of friendship.

  • Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat, To conquer France, his true inheritance?

  • Yes, cold and bitter as that cup was, pressed next to his very lips, he had learned to drink it.

  • I let my imagination paint the streets as cold and dreary as it would, just to extract a little pleasure by way of contrast from the brilliant room of which I was apparently sole master.

  • As the child turned back into the cold and darkness, he wondered why the footman had spoken thus, for surely, thought he, those little children would love to have another companion join them in their joyous Christmas festival.

  • The winter is so cold and I'm here all alone!

  • The mother saw the ragged stranger standing without, cold and shivering, with bare head and almost bare feet.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cold and" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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