chill
noun
coldness, especially a moderate but uncomfortably penetrating coldness.
is chilling
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present progressiveof chill (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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It is chilling to read that he must be carefully concealed in that first house—for his own safety.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025
And this time, the strategy is chilling the entire budget process.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2025
"While it is chilling that a private conversation from nearly a decade ago can do this sort of damage, I am also truly, deeply sorry for it and the hurt it will cause."
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2025
“This ruling in Colorado is chilling to me,” Mr. Graham said.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 24, 2023
The second, is only so much dead water, which has already given up, to other soil, all that ours could absorb from it, and its effect is chilling and hurtful.
From Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health by George E. (George Edwin) Waring
