FRIGID in a Sentence

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The character of the pine and cypress is shown in frigid winter ; the sincerity of one's friend is shown in adverse circumstances.

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 Meanings and Examples of FRIGID
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
frigid
 a.  intensely cold; lacking warmth; stiff and formal in manner
Classic Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  Dolly did not shrink away, but her face did not lose its frigid expression.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 19
2  He who had been such a careful father, had from the end of that winter become peculiarly frigid to his son, and adopted to him just the same bantering tone he used with his wife.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 26
3  He too was silent for some time, and then began speaking in a frigid, less shrill voice, emphasizing random words that had no special significance.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 4
4  Alexey Alexandrovitch had thought to pass at once into those frigid relations in which he ought to stand with the brother of a wife against whom he was beginning a suit for divorce.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 8
5  His step on the stairs; his quiet moving about the frigid room while he dressed; his abstracted and meaningless cough.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
6  It was a slant-roofed, small-windowed hole above the kitchen, oppressive in summer, frigid in winter.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  This savage was the only person present who seemed to notice my entrance; because he was the only one who could not read, and, therefore, was not reading those frigid inscriptions on the wall.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7. The Chapel.
8  Often, as she read, her voice faltered, and sometimes failed her altogether, when she would stop, with an air of frigid composure, till she had mastered herself.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
9  But in the present case the hero was a man of middle-age, and of cautious and frigid temperament.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
10  Her husband looked at her as if surprised to notice that someone besides Pierre and himself was in the room, and addressed her in a tone of frigid politeness.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII
11  The prince again laughed his frigid laugh.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXVII
12  He seized his son by the hand with small bony fingers, shook it, looked straight into his son's face with keen eyes which seemed to see through him, and again laughed his frigid laugh.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXVIII
13  The cold and frosty night without was doubly frigid to her.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 6 The Two Stand Face to Face
14  He was decidedly frigid in his manner to us, especially when he heard the errand upon which we had come.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
15  By no means," replied the count in the most frigid tones; "Ali has many faults mixed with most excellent qualities.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 46. Unlimited Credit.
Example Sentence:
1  The frigid, inhospitable Aleutian Islands are bleak military outposts.
2  He was in his after-dinner mood; more genial and also more self-indulgent than the frigid and rigid temper of the morning.
3  Cold water would repeatedly be thrown on prisoners who were being kept in frigid temperatures for up to a month.
4  He was, in short, in his after-dinner mood; more expanded and genial, and also more self - indulgent than the frigid and rigid temper of the morning.
5  A snowstorm hit the West today, bringing with it frigid temperatures.
6  The character of the pine and cypress is shown in frigid winter ; the sincerity of one's friend is shown in adverse circumstances.
7  The guard looked at us with a frigid stare.
8  The whales' predicament in the frigid waters of Hudson Bay made international headlines, and locals had been planning a rescue operation with chainsaws and drills before the mammals slipped away.