spine-chilling
Example Sentences
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But what better way is there to make a monster than to draw from the scariest and most spine-chilling in the game?
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2025
Dahlia Lithwick looks at how his rhetoric has been getting even more spine-chilling of late, and why we can’t afford to lose sight of what’s at stake.
From Slate ● Nov. 16, 2023
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
After the long, torchlit approach, walking straight into the gaze of the snarling deity, mysterious bellows reverberating off the stone, the oracular declamation from above must have been spine-chilling.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
