cold-water
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Now living in a clean, cold-water tank and fed on earthworms, Kev has grown from two inches to 12.
From BBC • Apr. 26, 2026
They are ready to remake the world from their cold-water garret.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2025
In major cities, middle-class reformers opened settlement houses for poor immigrants, enacted housing codes to ban cold-water tenements and set up free public schools.
From Salon • Jul. 30, 2025
Since 2018 the 48-year-old has spun yarns including a Hollywood-style sign on a mountain to a nudist cold-water swimming club at a lake.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2025
“I had expected a cold-water shock,” Venus said, remembering when she first landed in the river, “but it was warm like bathwater, perhaps 80°F.”
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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