chilly
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The house was built without insulation, so our heating bills regularly run upward of $800 a month even though we keep the house at a chilly 67, urging the kids to wear extra sweaters.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026
‘Fjord’ will be nominated, but it’s too chilly and remote to win.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
For many people the chilly weather and needing to get dressed up in thick, cosy clothes is part of the appeal, she says.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
After a chilly weekend, temperatures will generally remain slightly below average for mid-October.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
The skies were hidden by mist and the ground was clouded by the chilly fog.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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Wednesday will start off chillier compared to recent mornings and while dry for most, there will be lots of cloud and showery rain mainly across southern Scotland, northern England and north Wales.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
Basin, while the afternoons see air over the chillier ocean water move inland.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Ads on “cooler screens,” i.e., digital ads projected on the doors of refrigerated cases in supermarkets, get a much chillier reception, with 41% of respondents viewing them negatively, the report found.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
Although much of Southern California is too warm for the fruit, Leona Valley sits at about 3,500 feet elevation, giving it chillier winter nights.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
Air temperature falls by about 2.5°F with every thousand feet of elevation, so it would have been chillier at this height anyway, but now it was positively uncomfortable.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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The actress asked Wintour what she thought of her dress, to which Wintour put on her shades—and her chilliest tone—and said, “And the nominees are.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 2026
This was also the year with the chilliest night - just 4.2C at nearly Yeovilton.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2025
The chilliest, darkest place in the unseen ocean of the soul.
From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2025
In this mild winter, Friday seemed to be one of Washington’s dampest, chilliest, breeziest, and possibly even gloomiest, days of the year.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2023
As there were no theatres or concerts to go to and nothing else to do, we went to bed in the chilliest bedrooms that I had ever been in up to that time.
From On the Fringe of the Great Fight by George G. (George Gallie) Nasmith
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