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Example sentences for "cold feet"

  • A large number of people have their sleep at the beginning of the night seriously disturbed by cold feet.

  • This gives rise to cold feet and, in those who stand much, to the tender feet that are now so much complained of and for which so many foot powders and appliances are advertised.

  • Diarrhoea, cold feet, and lack of spirit and appetite thus arise.

  • To have “cold feet” in the air is to have a bad attack of nerves or funk.

  • Imagining that “cold feet” meant some ailment of the feet, like chilblains, and solicitous for his welfare, this enterprising individual approached the famous airman immediately after his descent from a trip up above.

  • One day at Hendon, before the war, a well-meaning but somewhat dense journalist attached to a big London daily was told Hamel was suffering from “cold feet.

  • Don't be afraid of any one suspecting you of cold feet!

  • Soldiers there have been who have shown "cold feet" in their first battle or two, and yet have been among the best of soldiers later on.

  • However, a soldier who betrays cowardice in the face of the enemy may be shot for his cowardice, for which reason "cold feet" sometimes become cold for all time to come.

  • The princess had a woman's heart and when a woman's heart and a baby's tears meet, something happens that gives the devil cold feet.

  • It is when they break down and cry and pour out their hearts to God in grief, when the flood-gates open, then I want to tell you the devil will have cold feet.

  • If the devil ever got "cold feet" it was that day, in my judgment.

  • Mason, Cold Feet ain't got the nerve to shoot a rabbit.

  • The blond head of Cold Feet turned, and his large, dark eyes rested without expression upon the face of the Swede.

  • Suddenly he felt that he had the clue to the mystery of Cold Feet.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cold feet" 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:
    break the; cold alcohol; cold and frosty morning; cold blood; cold climates; cold cooked; cold cream; cold feet; cold fish; cold hand; cold milk; cold mutton; cold perspiration; cold roast; cold sweat; cold water; cold wave; cold wind; considerable interest; done here; only when; strong solution; tel des; then sprinkle; wait here; working power