stone-cold

adjective

completely cold

adverb

(intensifier)stone-cold sober

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Words nearby stone-cold

stone canal, stonecast, stonecat, stonechat, stone china, stone-cold, stone crab, stonecrop, stonecrop family, stone curlew, stonecutter

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Example sentences from the Web for stone-cold

But a stone-cold death threat to my cell phone — that was a new one.
A Female Writer’s New Milestone: Her First Death Threat|Annie Gaus|December 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The last two Wall Street clients Caine worked with were both “stone-cold alcoholics” in their 40s.
Live-in Sober Coaches Offer Wealthy Expensive New Way to Stay Clean|Eliza Shapiro|March 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST
There was stone-cold silence from the dozen other assembled Democrats—a reaction that Lieberman found “very troubling.”
Joe Lieberman’s Slow-Motion Divorce From the Democratic Party|Howard Kurtz|July 18, 2012|DAILY BEAST
When all necessary reform has been accomplished our perfected planet will be stone-cold.
The Author's Craft|Arnold Bennett

But when my fingers came to the nearest one—the right hand—I found that it was stiff, rigid, stone-cold.
Ravensdene Court|J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher
He laid a finger on the dead man's stone-cold hand and let it rest so for a minute.
King--of the Khyber Rifles|Talbot Mundy
His limbs were stone-cold and dead already, past motion, past pain.
The Unknown Sea|Clemence Housman
He had no sooner uttered that one than he discovered with dismay that his soup would soon be stone-cold.
Fromont and Risler, Complete|Alphonse Daudet

Idioms and Phrases with stone-cold

stone cold

Unfeeling, insensible, as in That sad story left her stone cold. This analogy was already used by Shakespeare in Henry V (2:3): “Cold as any stone.”

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