Example Sentences

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There are still more recent incidents that I have not rounded up—or that, more chillingly, have not been made public.

From Slate • Jun. 5, 2025

Let's mention here that dimethyl sulfide is emitted during wildfires, and so contributes to a scent that has grown chillingly familiar in many parts of North America in recent years.

From Salon • May 31, 2025

Judge Paul Thomas KC said Payne’s attacks were chillingly frightening.

From BBC • Sep. 23, 2024

A gazillion video replays have chillingly shown it a gazillion times.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2024

From that they can work out plausible scenarios of what it must have been like–or, more chillingly, would be like if it happened now.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson