CHILLY in a Sentence

Learn CHILLY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

37 example sentences for CHILLY, such as:

1. I grew chilly when the fire went out.
2. Weather's beginning to get chilly here.
3. She resolved to be so chilly that they would stay away.
4. In such a winter morning we felt sticky and chilly at the same time.
5. Mary Ann had made an effort at jazzing up the chilly modern interiors.

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 Meanings and Examples of CHILLY
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chilly
 a.  cold but not freezing
Classic Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1  But she loved him so much that, when he withdrew as he had now done, it was like the warm sun going down and leaving her in chilly twilight dews.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
2  The cold wind made her shiver and the chilly needle-like drops drove hard into her face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
3  I put the side-curtains up, it was so chilly.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
4  She rushed to him, patted his fur coat, the long hairs smooth but chilly to her fingers.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
5  Each morning she was nauseated, chilly, bedraggled, and certain that she would never again be attractive; each twilight she was afraid.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
6  She resolved to be so chilly that they would stay away.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
7  She stared at the mud-browned chilly water, the floating gray reeds.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
8  But up-stairs she remembered that Mrs. Bogart had seen her walking with Erik from the railroad track into town, and she was chilly with disquietude.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
9  Weather's beginning to get chilly here.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
10  We felt very nice and snug, the more so since it was so chilly out of doors; indeed out of bed-clothes too, seeing that there was no fire in the room.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11. Nightgown.
11  Jo was very busy in the garret, for the October days began to grow chilly, and the afternoons were short.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FOURTEEN
12  I sat up in bed by way of arousing this said brain: it was a chilly night; I covered my shoulders with a shawl, and then I proceeded to think again with all my might.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
13  It was the first of June; yet the morning was overcast and chilly: rain beat fast on my casement.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
14  Miss Murdstone gave me her chilly finger-nails, and sat severely rigid.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 38. A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP
15  Sergey Ivanovitch met his brother with the smile of chilly friendliness he always had for everyone, and introducing him to the professor, went on with the conversation.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
Example Sentence:
1  Now that it's November, our office thermostat is set lower - some might say, chilly, or even, perhaps, freezing.
2  I was glad of it: I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons.
3  In such a winter morning we felt sticky and chilly at the same time.
4  Mary Ann had made an effort at jazzing up the chilly modern interiors.
5  I grew chilly when the fire went out.