Example sentences for: icy

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

  • How could the testimony of a man like Chambers, Hiss asked with icy contempt, visibly unkempt, overweight, and "forbiddingly drab" (in Lionel Trilling's phrase), with no style and little personal status, a man who had lived, in Hiss' words, "in the sewers, plotting against his native land," possibly outweigh the simple facts of Hiss' career as Harvard graduate, trusted aide to FDR at Yalta, and one of the architects of the United Nations?

  • This book is a true pleasure to read, whether one's experience with fish is limited to the occasional accompaniment to chips, to Dover sole véronique , or to standing hip-deep in an icy stream at dawn.

  • It was in the old days in Atlantic City& as the icy rain began to clear the boardwalk

  • Another icy chill is between Buckingham Palace and the British tabloid the Sun . There's another British royal wedding next month--of Prince Edward, the Queen's youngest son, to Sophie Rhys-Jones, a PR girl who looks spookily similar to both the late Princess Diana and Jill Dando, the country's most popular TV presenter, who was recently murdered in London.

  • "With good humor and icy elegance ...


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