The process of becoming cooler

Usage examples of chilling.

A CHILLING WARNING Less than an hour after his capture, Ramzi Yousef was seated across a table from FBI Agents Garrett and Horton and DSS Agent Bill Miller.

Later, while the chopper approached the heliport near the Battery, Yousef gave FBI agents a chilling warning of what was to come.

Then he and Cray retreated behind a ceramic baffle while Berith spread itself behind the frame, chilling it and the web until clouds of condensation began to form around them.

Week later chilling stickies in the Shens and then a firefight with the baron of some pesthole ville in the Darks.

There were also the shouts and wild laughter of the Gallas, drunk on blood and te, and the chilling sound of the few Harari captives who had been saved from the initial massacre to provide entertainment during the long wait before Ras Kullah arrived in the captured town.

What made the bomb maker such a chilling adversary was that he made this argument in a calm, lawyerlike manner.

And from time to time there was a rasping quality about them that turned their plaintiveness into a stark and chilling bleakness.

Greater still when Ada asked me what she had said, and when I replied that she had been kind and interested, and when Ada, while admitting her beauty and elegance, remarked upon her proud manner and her imperious chilling air.

The effects of the climate became, as usual, fatal to soldiers from the north, and the more so that the dissolute license of the Crusaders, forming a singular contrast to the principles and purpose of their taking up arms, rendered them more easy victims to the insalubrious influence of burning heat and chilling dews.

Unlike the Kappa Theta Etas, I was not haunted by the specter of a tainted reputation, but the thought of having to explain my presence at the Hideaway Haven was so chilling that goose bumps dotted my arms and whatever hackles I possessed rose on my neck.

Damien Echols blows through the trailer parks and flatlands around this Delta town like a brisk winter wind, chilling listeners with tales of vampires, Satanism and ritual murder.

In the eyes of Mr. Guppy she is the same Lady Dedlock, holding the same prepared, proud, chilling state.

But having spent a winter in the North, we showed the through outfits a chilling contempt.

There are today a few remaining large reptiles on Earth, the most striking of which is the Komodo dragon of Indonesia: cold-blooded, not very bright, but a predator exhibiting a chilling fixity of purpose.

Burchardt was killed by one of those robber barons while leading an assault on his keep, and the Social Police rapid-response squads had eventually crushed the rioters, but the Caste Riots remained a chilling reminder of the mesmeric influence Actors could exert over their audiences.