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How to use coldly in a sentence

14 example sentences · adverb

Coldly means in a cold or uncaring manner; indifferently. Example: “The heart mispleases me that is held coldly, Severely closed amid the years of feeling.”

More sentences with coldly

  • The heart mispleases me that is held coldly, Severely closed amid the years of feeling.1961, Friedrich Schiller, Mary Stuart. From the entry misplease
  • “He's been holding out on me.” “You misunderstood me,” the clerk said coldly.1943, Ayn Rand, chapter IX, in The Fountainhead. From the entry stiff
  • “I got that dimple from sleeping with my face on a collar button,” coldly explained the dentistress.1930 October 4, Joseph Faus, ““Oh, Miss Dentist!”: Being the ridiculous romance of Oliver Whidden, insurance salesman, who found his love…. From the entry collar button
  • They stood on the foot-bridge over Boathouse Station and looked at the metals gleaming coldly.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 7”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC. From the entry metals
  • Coldly perusing his surveillance cameras one day, Mr.2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in…. From the entry surveillance camera
  • He always used the tiara and the gestatorial throne, and the majestatis plural sounded coldly once again on his lips.2002, Claudio Rendina, The Popes: Histories and Secrets, page 603. From the entry gestatorial
  • What is this sort of piece going to do when confronted with row upon row of coldly sober carpers?1919 August, P. G. Wodehouse, “Prohibition and the Drama”, in Vanity Fair, page 21. From the entry carper
  • Strong, strong, ever on, Strong in our hope increasing; Heed not the faintling's fall, Nor eyes that on ye look coldly.1901, Socialist songs with music. From the entry faintling
  • We also find gamblers of this type among some frigid hysteric women, who seem to treat gambling as they treat men, coldly and spongingly.1969, Edmund Bergler, Selected Papers of Edmund Bergler, 1933-1961, page 697. From the entry hysteric
  • Our egghead looked at him coldly.1959, The Reader’s Digest, volume 75, page 32. From the entry martinus
  • Out of the black window Steerpike saw, as a result of his cough, the small gimlety eyes peer coldly from a crimson wedge.1946, Mervyn Peake, “Near and Far”, in Titus Groan, Penguin, published 1981, page 142. From the entry gimlety
  • His mind seemed older than theirs: it shone coldly on their strifes and happiness and regrets like a moon upon a younger earth.1916, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man. From the entry strifes
  • She was, at heart, as dry, as kippered, as intentionalist, and coldly selfconscious as the driest of Egyptian book-keepers in a great merchant firm at Corinth.2019, Emil Reich, Nights with the Gods. From the entry kippered
  • Boadicea seemed to be hesitating for a moment, whilst Sir Baldwin remained coldly neutral, determined not to interfere again in women's affairs; his interference not having succeeded overwell hitherto.1912, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, Meadowsweet, page 304. From the entry overwell

Meaning of coldly

  1. adverb In a cold or uncaring manner; indifferently.

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Questions about coldly in a sentence

How do you use coldly in a sentence?
Coldly is used as an adverb. For example: “The heart mispleases me that is held coldly, Severely closed amid the years of feeling.”
What is a short sentence with coldly?
“Our egghead looked at him coldly.”
What does coldly mean?
Coldly means in a cold or uncaring manner; indifferently.

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