Example sentences for: frigid

How can you use “frigid” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Naturally Baiae grumbles because its groves Of myrtle are now no longer what one resorts to, And its sulfur hot baths scorned, so celebrated Once upon a time for being good for Everything that ails one, and they're miffed By invalids who go away to put Their heads and shoulders under Clusium's waters Or else to plunge in Gabii's frigid baths.

  • In a piece about Ingmar Bergman, the Swedish film director attributes both his psychologically probing cinematic style and his tumultuous love life to his emotionally frigid parents.

  • What has enraptured so many critics, among them Richard Schickel in Clint Eastwood: A Biography , is that the actor-director has learned to play with his own inexpressiveness--to make a joke of his frigid machismo without (and here's where the supreme balancing act comes in) travestying it.

  • Based on a grim novel by the Baron of Bleak, Russell Banks, and set in a frigid town in northern New Hampshire, Affliction tells the story of Wade Whitehouse (Nick Nolte), a part-time police officer and full-time flunky, who's constitutionally unequipped to survive a succession of personal and professional crises.

  • Back in the roses for the first time in years, he's soon pumping iron, smoking pot, and telling off his frigid wife and faceless bosses, convinced that whatever he has lost he's getting back, baby.


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