Example Sentences

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“Record-shattering warmth” followed immediately by frigidly cold weather will create the opportunity for hail the size of hen eggs and possible tornadoes in the Midwest on Tuesday evening into Wednesday morning.

From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2024

They live across Fifth Avenue from George and Bertha Russell, Vanderbilt types played by Morgan Spector and Carrie Coon, frigidly cooing some approximation of a mid-Atlantic accent.

From Salon • Jan. 25, 2022

Migrants call these cells the “hieleras,” the Spanish word for icebox or freezer, because the temperatures are kept so frigidly low.

From Washington Post • Jul. 23, 2019

It roared frigidly to life, a bomber taking off in the Arctic.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 29, 2018

“Yes, of course,” he conceded frigidly, his manner changing to one of edgy and defensive antagonism.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller