cold-blooded
Example Sentences
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But there’s a biological reason: Sea turtles are cold-blooded, and don’t heal as fast as creatures with warm blood pumping through their veins.
From Los Angeles Times
He had to wear shorts, even in the coldest weather, which wasn’t that great when you were a cold-blooded creature.
From Literature
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While many see Yamagami as a cold-blooded murderer, some sympathise with his troubled upbringing.
From BBC
But Eisenstein’s staging, and in particular the editing, create a microcosm of the authorities’ cold-blooded reaction to popular unrest across Russia.
He said the Croatian journalist was trying to "present me as a monster, as an inhuman, as someone who not only has no emotions, but is a cold-blooded murderer".
From BBC
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