Word Finder - chilly

definition

Cold enough to cause discomfort.

definition

Feeling uncomfortably cold.

example

I’m getting rather chilly over here – could you shut the window please?

definition

Distant and cool; unfriendly.

example

She gave me a chilly look when I made the suggestion.

It can get chilly here at night.

The night was chilly and quiet.

The bedroom in the cottage was chilly with the door to the living room closed.

She took them and shivered in the chilly night.  Food and sleep had become luxuries during their travel.

It's a bit chilly for me.

The night air was chilly on her bare arms and she shivered involuntarily, annoyed at herself because it looked like an obvious ploy.

The night air of spring was chilly in the mountains.

Those of the plains find the temperature chilly, and are stricken down with influenza and pains in the limbs.

The massive halls were chilly, with ugly stone walls and wooden beams far above.

She made her way to the back entrance to the castle and stepped into the quiet, chilly day.

At their yesterday's halting place, feeling chilly by a dying campfire, Pierre had got up and gone to the next one, which was burning better.

The fragrant ocean breeze was chilly as it brushed his skin, and his movements fell into the rhythm of the ebb and flow of waves.

It was foggy and chilly, like a walk on the beach after the fog rolled in.

The air was chilly and still.

Her body shook from the inside out before they stepped into the chilly night to await her fate.

It's always chilly here, more so now that it's autumn.

The moons hung well above the horizon, and the desert air was chilly enough for her to see her breath.

The night was getting chilly and the warmth from the horse was welcome.

The room was chilly, the marble flooring freezing.

She heard the door to the bedroom close and retreated from the chilly spring air back into her room.

While the air remained chilly, especially in the shaded patches, it was so clear and unseasonably warm Dean hardly noticed.

It gets chilly here.

Still cold from the chilly beach, she went up to her room and changed into jeans and a sweater.

Tired and confused, Katie left without asking what the drugs were for and stepped into the chilly fall evening.

The air was chilly, but she left the window open to the street sounds and the cold, wanting to feel normal.

Within moments, they burst into the chilly desert night.

The streets of the entire business section of the city are roofed over in this manner, and in the summer months the shelter from the sun is very grateful, but in the winter these streets are extremely trying to the foreign visitor, owing to their darkness and their damp and chilly atmosphere.

It was too chilly for her to want to keep her distance from the incredibly attractive man.

He placed the box in his cargo pocket and joined the two teams in the chilly predawn morning.

The chilly ocean breeze made her dress move as if it was alive, and she swiped at the pink hair blinding her.

She shivered in the chilly ocean breeze.

While the Deans were pleased that Martha had confided in them about her gruesome discovery, her pending exit remained an ever-present pall that hung over the remainder of the evening like a chilly fog.

The day being quite chilly, we gladly accepted the offer of coffee.

We sang songs and told stories to beguile the chilly night away.

Cool Britannia is still a decidedly chilly place for some.

Suddenly, to continue the metaphor, you're standing in a large crowd of people with a distinctly chilly feeling down below!

However, I did dutifully close them for two somewhat chilly nights.

With that said, some summer nights can be slightly chilly owing to the nearby mountains, which draw in weather systems.

Someone in Hell must surely feel chilly these days!

Now the weather is turning chilly its time to start wearing tights again.

If the weather gets chilly you have your own radiator, beside your bed to turn on to keep you warm.

Despite the warm days, the nights are becoming quite chilly.

The Sub Antarctic Plant House has many specimens from chilly climes.

It has a drawer beneath the seat where hot coals were placed to keep the guards warm on chilly nights.

It was beginning to get quite chilly, we had lunch on the move and again found the canal devoid of traffic.

These lanes have kept their integrity with authentic crumbled facades and darkened corners, where little pubs serve mulled wine on chilly nights.

Within the bush, her covert nest A little linnet fondly prest The dew sat chilly on her breast Sae early in the morning.

Putin rose rapidly to become deputy mayor, where he gained a reputation for silent, chilly efficiency.

Wednesday 10 May The only highlight of a bright morning, troubled by a chilly NW breeze, was 2 tree pipits.

They happened to be standing in a place that felt sinister, claustrophobic, and not forgetting, chilly.