Example Sentences

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In Season 4, Lady Caroline resides in a Barbados retreat, where she frostily receives her children.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2023

“Babylon” was greeted frostily at its premiere in Munich in 2012, and even more icily after it was revised and re-premiered in Berlin last year; even when Mr. Widmann fails, he fails upward.

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2020

In 1993, his interview with American woman, Annie Murphy, who had a child with Bishop of Galway Eamonn Casey, ended very frostily.

From BBC • Nov. 4, 2019

As she frostily explains to her unscrupulous lawyer:

From Washington Post • Aug. 17, 2016

“It depends on how you look at it,” Roland Kyburz said frostily.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols