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Example sentences for: icy

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What did you think of the Dementors, those elegantly symbolic, bone-chilling villains in the latest, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ? They guard Azkaban, the wizard prison, by sucking hope from the prisoners, leaving them in a state of icy despair, as good a description of depression as I've ever read.
The icy conditions mean that good quality mitochondrial DNA could be extracted from most of the specimens.
Videotapes of Clinton press secretary Mike McCurry's icy comments about the rebellious Freeh were repeatedly unspooled.
An obituary in the New York Times used the word cold three times, and for good measure added chilly , icy , bleak , and grim . Kubrick the Cold is a cliché that cropped up in the columns of Pauline Kael and now serves as a comfy sofa for those who don't want to deal with Kubrick's ambition.
These toughest of all Canadians have withstood the hardships of the far north, including its icy deserts and Arctic blizzards, but were nearly wiped out by European diseases — measles, mumps, and smallpox.