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How to use cool in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, noun, verb

Cool means of a mildly low temperature. Example: “I like cool weather the most 'cause it's not too hot to wear a jacket but I won't be too cold in my shorts.”

Examples of cool by meaning

adjectiveOf a mildly low temperature.

  • I like cool weather the most 'cause it's not too hot to wear a jacket but I won't be too cold in my shorts.
  • Many exoplanets have been found orbiting dwarf stars that are much cooler and smaller than our sun, such as the famed TRAPPIST-1 system and its seven planets, announced in 2017.2023 November 29, Ashley Strickland, “Astronomers discover nearby six-planet solar system with ‘pristine configuration’”, in CNN

adjectiveAllowing or suggesting heat relief.

  • Linen has made cool and breathable clothing for millennia.
  • She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 2, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC

adjectiveOf a color, in the range of violet to green.

  • If you have a reddish complexion, you should mainly wear cool colors.

adjectiveNot showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself.

  • Be cool. There's no need to panic.

adjectiveUnenthusiastic; lukewarm; skeptical.

  • His proposals had a cool reception.

adjectiveApplied facetiously to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.

  • You lost a cool hundred to him one night here over the cards, eh?1900, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Transmigration
  • My father was talking to the World's Fair Commission yesterday, and they estimate it's going to cost a cool fifty million.1944 November 28, Irving Brecher, Fred F. Finklehoffe, Meet Me in St. Louis, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

adjectiveKnowing what to do and how to behave; behaving with effortless and enviable style and panache; considered popular by...

  • Maggie the au pair, and Pam P. on the school bus and Billy G. with his Grateful Dead records were all deeply cool people.2000, Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point
  • He managed to conduct interviews with the least cool global figure – his father, Prince Charles – and the most cool, Barack Obama, in a way that allowed them both to look as good as they could.2017 December 27, “The Guardian view on Prince Harry: the monarchy’s best insurance policy”, in the Guardian
  • Jackson and Charli XCX all seem so self-assured and, well, cool?2025 June 30, Christina Caron, “What Makes Someone Cool? A New Study Offers Clues.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York...

adjectiveFashionable; trendy; hip.

  • Now it's cool, hmm?1953, Dalton Trumbo, Ian McLellan Hunter, John Dighton, Roman Holiday, spoken by Mario Delani (Paolo Carlini)

More sentences with cool

  • It'd be cool to meet up again soon and have a quick chat.From the entry chat
  • Although it was a little impractical, Elmer held his revolvers akimbo because to him it looked cool.From the entry akimbo
  • Fighter pilots are depicted as cool in popular media like Top Gun.From the entry media
  • The user who started the edit war was blocked for a day to cool off.From the entry block
  • Improper cooling and a dull milling cutter on titanium can gall the surface.From the entry gall
  • Be cool! Keep it on the down low. Don't blow up my spot!From the entry blow up
  • The searing heat cooled somewhat as the sun set in the evening.From the entry somewhat
  • A cup of warm tea eventually cools to the ambient temperature.From the entry ambient
  • Even during the elections, Josh was as cool as a cucumber.From the entry cool as a cucumber
  • I crystallized the copper sulfate by slowly cooling a saturated solution.From the entry crystallize
  • Some movies glorify mobsters by making them seem like the cool kids around the block.From the entry glorify
  • The portraits on the wall aren’t that good, but they’re just sorta cool to have around.From the entry sorta
  • You are getting a little too angry; you need to cool off.From the entry cool off
  • The metal will take about three hours to cool off after the molding.From the entry cool off
  • We did tell him to cool it but he just got more and more irate.From the entry cool it
  • The day started out cool, but by noon it was roasting.From the entry roasting
  • Though it did add some cool new QoL features, last week's was moreso a balance update.From the entry moreso
  • After baking and cooling, tip the cake out of its pan.From the entry tip out
  • I'd love to go to Israel, but I'll have to wait until the violence cools down.From the entry cool down
  • We had to cool down the equipment with water before using it.From the entry cool down
  • It'd be cool if this film were a little more blacked up.From the entry blacked up
  • Don't ask me what the kids consider cool at the moment — I'm just an old.From the entry olds
  • One time, this Mexican dude called me a cool arrow! Ain't that something?From the entry cool arrow
  • Man, that guy is cool and the gang! He gave me his old television set for free.From the entry cool and the gang
  • Have a look at this cool website I coded up last night!From the entry code up
  • String theory is way cool, except for the math.From the entry way
  • Check out the cool new vids on YouTube!From the entry vid

Meaning of cool

  1. adjective Of a mildly low temperature.
  2. adjective Allowing or suggesting heat relief.
  3. adjective Of a color, in the range of violet to green.

Full definition of cool

Questions about cool in a sentence

How do you use cool in a sentence?
Cool is used as an adjective, noun and verb. For example: “I like cool weather the most 'cause it's not too hot to wear a jacket but I won't be too cold in my shorts.”
What is a short sentence with cool?
“Now it's cool, hmm?”
What does cool mean?
Cool means of a mildly low temperature.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cool (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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