chilling

Example Sentences

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However, tropical fruits such as mangoes are sensitive to chilling injury when temperatures become too low.

From Science Daily • May 23, 2026

“Everybody’s very relaxed, just chilling, sitting down,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2026

And the truly chilling part is how quickly Washington has adapted to it.

From Salon • May 16, 2026

The fine was issued by the Office for Students, the regulator of England's universities, over the university's trans and non-binary inclusion policy which it said had a "chilling" effect on free speech.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

For, pounding down the mountainside, in a cloud of clinging dust and a chorus of chilling shrieks, came all the loathsome creatures who choose to live in Ignorance and who had waited so very impatiently.

From "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster