Unpleasant, in a way

Usage examples of icy.

There had been decent spring rains that year and the acequias, the irrigation channels that the Romans had built, ran fresh with icy water.

Broken stone and iron gashed her bare feet as she plunged into the black arch of the gate, but the pain was swallowed in icy fear as thin, aimless winds tugged at heras she sensed, rather than saw, something move in the utter blackness over her head.

Some great French alienists recommend cold shower baths of three minutes or more, but a man in a London asylum recently died from the weight of icy water pouring down on him.

Russians, like everybody else, would lay down their coats in icy puddles so Alsa could keep her feet dry.

I understood, would consist of engineered microbes, their genetic material spliced together from bacteria discovered inside rocks in the dry valleys of Antarctica, from anaerobes capable of surviving in the outflow pipes of nuclear reactors, from unicells recovered from the icy sludge at the bottom of the Barents Sea.

Eye of Malsum, Angekok and his cruel price for hospitality and the shadowy shapelessness of a darkling demon summoned from out an icy sky!

The aquavit was clean-tasting, sharp in the throat as a breath of icy air.

Mary tipping over the rail, clinging on to Toby Argyll, and the two of them plunging down into the icy river.

And Bondel, who was watching them, felt an icy chill run over him, as if he had been dipped in a cold bath.

Even with the heated stones, the water was still icy cold, and I had to cling to the rough timber of the bothy to remain standing as Sionan doused me until I was drenched, and then she began to wash me.

She strode across the floor toward Cece, her glare icy and her gaze unwavering.

In the space of a heartbeat, Daile had raised her bow, and, with icy calm, loosed three arrows in rapid succession.

I was trying to call my uncle, to repair the failing edenite armor, but the first icy spray had trapped and frozen me.

But in this cave in Reykjavik, on the icy world of Trondheim, Ender Wiggin knew her, and loved her, and wept bitterly for her.

Apart from this, he always showed us the same icy face, the same pale, hard eyes, enframed by colourless lashes.