gelid

Example Sentences

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But the Kuiper Belt, a torus-shaped ring of gelid objects, including the dwarf planet Pluto, will have its portrait taken by VRO in considerable detail.

From National Geographic • Jan. 9, 2024

Irresistibly compelled, you book a holiday to the gelid, hostile regions whence the creature came.

From New York Times • Mar. 12, 2022

It was a sunny, gelid afternoon just after Christmas.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 19, 2017

The talks will draw together diplomats from a dozen countries that have striking differences on potential solutions for the Syrian war — and whose relations with Iran range from warm to outright gelid.

From Washington Post • Oct. 27, 2015

I dropped to my knees, comforted by the solidity of the floor even though I couldn’t see it, expecting at any moment to be sucked into the gelid void, frozen and dead.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson