spine-chilling
Example Sentences
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Narrator Kirby Heyborne fully commits to the breathless lyricism of Bradbury’s prose poetry, casting a delightfully spine-chilling spell, alive with drama, agape with wonder and bristling with delicious shivers.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 7, 2022
The unlikely meshing of gospel and rap, spine-chilling lyrics and clever sampling of Stevie Wonder’s “Pastime Paradise” would eventually turn the single into a chart-topping hit and catapult the rapper’s decades-long musical career.
From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2022
“This is a spine-chilling message that there is no safe place for critics of the monarchy,” said Sunai Phasuk, a Bangkok-based researcher for Human Rights Watch.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2020
Extremely early-2010s-y show Game of Thrones is compared to: Deadwood What the review got right: “The series contains the kind of gorgeous vistas and spine-chilling moments you’d expect from a fantasy epic.”
From Slate • Apr. 12, 2019
When he saw me he gave a loud, clear wailing wraaaah—a spine-chilling call that is used to threaten a dangerous animal.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
