out cold

Example Sentences

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The new study shows that dark matter does not necessarily need to start out cold.

From Science Daily • Jan. 15, 2026

At one point, she tried to tear up a cardboard box to use as cover from the ventilator blowing out cold air, but her hands were too cold to break it.

From BBC • Aug. 30, 2023

Your dad won’t be out cold in the La-Z-Boy in front of every Orioles game now.

From Washington Post • Feb. 27, 2023

Coming off a 20-point victory over the NBA-leading Boston Celtics on Monday, the Clippers started out cold.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 14, 2022

Between the car floating real soft down the road and Lefty Lewis’s boring stories about the railroad and the union and baseball I was out cold in no time.

From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis