Mr. Rivers," said he, "I cannot shoot an unarmed man in cold blood.
As I said before, I am merciful, and hate shooting prisoners in cold blood.
The general yielded to the viceroy's request, for revenge is not easily taken in cold blood.
Let me tell your worship that for a man to whip himself in cold blood is a hard thing, especially if the stripes fall upon an ill-nourished and worse-fed body.
As soon as they had all assembled, they were surrounded by a treble line of the Queen's garrison soldiers, and butchered to a man in cold blood.
The brave Governor, Sir Arthur Aston, retired with his staff to an old mill on an eminence, but they were disarmed and slain in cold blood.
The castle at the salmon weir was first attacked; and the men who defended it were butchered in cold blood, although they had surrendered on a promise of quarter.
Many who had surrendered prisoners of war were killed in cold blood.
Americans, without notice, were suddenly attacked and massacred in cold blood.
It were better had he died in battle than be shot in cold blood.
Wilkinson shouted; "scoundrels as they are, we cannot kill them in cold blood.
I know he ought to be hove overboard, but I ain't got the heart to kill him in cold blood.
It was not the habit of white men, so Mr. Gibney explained, to kill their prisoners in cold blood, and he had decided to give them an opportunity to fight their way out of a sad predicament with their naked fists.
How do I know but what these two poor boys has been murdered in cold blood?
Few of us sit down in cold blood to write our first stories; we have something in us that we feel we must express.
I must take good care never to write anything except in cold blood, with my nerves well clothed, and my brain and senses quiet.
For sitting there in cold blood, with his nerves at rest, and his brain and senses normal, the play he had written did seem to him to put an unnecessary strain upon the faculties.
Not a single detail of it is narrated in cold blood, as, for example, Prospero relates to Miranda the story of their marooning, or Horatio expounds the Norwegian-Danish political situation.
Most men attack a woman's virtue in cold blood, in the design to use her for their amusement, to sacrifice her to their vanity, to fill a void in an idle life, or to acquire a sort of reputation based upon the loss of ours.
Upon the reading of it in cold Blood, it looked rather like a Conference of Fiends than of Men.
But as I do not design this Speculation for the Evergreens of the Sex, I shall again apply my self to those who would willingly listen to the Dictates of Reason and Virtue, and can now hear me in cold Blood.
We can talk of Life and Death in cold Blood, and keep our Temper in a Discourse which turns upon every thing that is dear to us.
Cold Blood said: "It is a fever which tests our strength, and too often leads to perdition.
Cold Blood said, "It is a passion coming in the order of nature, the ripe fruit of our animal being.
Cold Blood said: "It is a name men and women are much in the habit of employing to sanctify their appetites.
I think it was an eleemosynary smile, for my pleasantry seems to me a particularly basso rilievo, as I look upon it in cold blood.
I think they begin rubbing in cold blood, and then, you know, l'appetit vient en mangeant, the more they rub the more they want to.
I would risk my life for her, if it would do her any good, but it would be in cold blood.
But she may be killed--" Victorin Hulot started with an honest man's horror at hearing these five words uttered in cold blood.
The murderous insurgents cut him off at Pembroke in cold blood.
No, I cannot kill in cold blood, though I have no doubt he richly deserves it.
I'm almost sorry we did not shoot him, but I never could take human life in cold blood, even when that life had been forfeited over and over again.
We knew too much, and were no doubt to be sacrificed in cold blood to ensure the safety of this piratical gang.
But take courage, dear; I cannot believe that God will permit those wretches to murder us in cold blood.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cold blood" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
