Example Sentences

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It was -8C, with a windchill temperature of -20C, they said.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026

On one of her first runs, at Lake Placid, it was minus 13 with a windchill of minus 27.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2026

On Thursday, I ended my day on daycare patrol as the windchill crept close to 25 degrees below zero.

From Slate • Jan. 25, 2026

He wore a traditional robe-like khamiis under a long wool coat and a pink stocking cap against the below-zero windchill, which he didn’t seem to mind.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025

Everyone’s oxygen had long since run out, making the group more vulnerable to the windchill, which exceeded a hundred below zero.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer