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Example sentences from the Web for stone-coldBut 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
adverb(intensifier)stone-cold sober Words nearby stone-coldstone canal, stonecast, stonecat, stonechat, stone china, stone-cold, stone crab, stonecrop, stonecrop family, stone curlew, stonecutter Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with 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.” The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |