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Example sentences for "frigid"

Lexicographically close words:
frightfullest; frightfully; frightfulness; frighting; frights; frigida; frigidarium; frigidity; frigidly; frigido
  1. She interrogated her daughter with an upward gaze, frigid and unconsciously hostile, through her gold-rimmed glasses.

  2. The Englishman had overheard; and a look of frigid displeasure passed across his proud face.

  3. Grace had once said she did not want example nor personal experience, but clear, frigid demonstration.

  4. Bolder spirits marched off to the smoking room--Crane starting this movement with the declaration that, for his part, he would as lief drown like a rat in a trap as battling to keep up in the frigid inferno of those raging seas.

  5. Then came a pause: he was no more descending; for a time of indeterminate duration, an age of anguish, he seemed to float without motion, suspended in frigid purgatory.

  6. Dwarfed representatives of the birch and willow both are here, hugging the genial rock, as an old French habitant hugs his stove in winter-time, spreading their branches over it, instead of in the frigid air.

  7. A thick pall of settling snow hung on the frigid air.

  8. Awareness of his companion, of the frigid hell of his Titanian surroundings, rushed back in a flood.

  9. The Woodcutters was written; a book notable for its exact and rather frigid realism; full of curious records of Russian soldier-psychology--notes to be made use of in the future.

  10. Miss Fields' voice was frigid and she sat stiffly in her chair.

  11. Miss Fields grew even more frigid if that were possible.

  12. Although embarrassed in his own frigid way, by the Major's allusions, Mr Dombey had no objection to such rallying, it was clear, but rather courted it.

  13. First of all, he ardently desires to save them from the petrifaction which awaits all souls made frigid by a false philosophy.

  14. She uttered sentiments which were not inappropriate to her maternal character, but in a frigid tone and with an air of stately self-control.

  15. The red beam drove back the ones near the edge, except those who were stricken by its frigid blast and dropped like plummets into the street, where the Robots with flashing blades pounced upon them.

  16. Every plane, at whatever high altitude, felt its frigid blast and winged hastily away to safety.

  17. Alten had not been shot; he was just stiff with cold; he said a dull-red ray had fallen upon him and stiffened him with its frigid blast.

  18. The giant beams of the Robots carried a frigid blast for miles.

  19. Frigid was the blast of this giant light-beam.

  20. Bind the ivy in a triple crown above Bianca's comely hair, and pipe not so wailingly to the Vikings of this frigid Norseland.

  21. But Italy, remember, my frigid Norseland has a heart of fire in her bosom beneath its overlying snows, before which yours dies like the white sick hearth-flame before the noonday sun.

  22. But no frigid wine and fruit cooler, Lake Como; as at first it did seem; but a tropical dining table, its surface a slab of light blue St. Pons marble in a state of fluidity.

  23. But if punctilious reserve on the part of her deliverer should teach her to regard him as some frigid stranger from the Arctic Zone, what sympathy could she have for him?

  24. I have loved you, and have shown you that I loved you, much to my regret; and yet you can come and say in that frigid way that you wish to consult with me whether it would not be better to marry Thomasin.

  25. The cold and frosty night without was doubly frigid to her.

  26. It was just the glimmer of a smile, and frigid as a polar sunbeam.

  27. Finally his frigid eyes turned upon Dave's great figure standing at the door.

  28. For a moment Truscott's eyes supported the frigid glare of Dave's.

  29. Many, perhaps most, of these ultra-frigid planets have an atmosphere of sorts; some have no atmosphere at all.

  30. Since oxygen-releasing life had never developed on the frigid surface of the planet, there was no oxygen in the atmosphere.

  31. Number Three was insulated against a frigid but relatively non-corrosive atmosphere.

  32. Akenside's stilted and frigid Odes "fall not so far short of Collins.

  33. When he attempts threnody he is as frigid as Cowley.

  34. Startled, the monster fell, rolled over and quickly slipped into the frigid waters of the tarn.

  35. Plummets downward to rescue her from their frigid embrace!

  36. The old woman turned away, hobbled awkwardly to her frigid mountain hut.

  37. I fell, rolled into the frigid waters of the lake.

  38. Motionless it observed him, turned, and descended once more into the frigid waters.

  39. The stream near the volcano's mouth glowed brightly, and lava flow around the peak retained the glow until the heat was quenched by the frigid waters.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "frigid" 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; biting; bitter; blank; bleak; blunt; boreal; brisk; castrated; catatonic; chill; chilly; cold; constrained; cool; crisp; cutting; dead; detached; discreet; dispassionate; distant; drugged; dull; emasculated; emotionless; exclusive; expressionless; forbidding; freezing; frigid; frosted; frosty; frozen; frustrated; gelid; glacial; guarded; heartless; icy; immovable; impassive; impersonal; impotent; inaccessible; inclement; indifferent; insusceptible; introverted; keen; modest; neuter; neutral; nippy; numbing; objective; obtuse; offish; passionless; penetrating; piercing; pinching; polar; raw; remote; removed; repressed; reserved; restrained; reticent; retiring; rigorous; severe; sharp; shivery; shrinking; sleety; slushy; snappy; soulless; spiritless; stoical; stony; subdued; suppressed; unapproachable; uncongenial; undemonstrative; unemotional; unfeeling; unimpassioned; unloving; unresponsive; unsexed; unsusceptible; unsympathetic; untouchable; wintry; withdrawn