Explore Chillingly through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Chillingly meaning
In a chilling manner.
Using Chillingly
- The main meaning on this page is: In a chilling manner.
- In the example corpus, chillingly often appears in combinations such as: chillingly the, most chillingly, was chillingly.
Context around Chillingly
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 7 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Chillingly
- In this selection, "chillingly" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, old, down, leader, boasts, killed and effective stand out and add context to how "chillingly" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include america is chillingly trenchant and and potentially chillingly prescient. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "chillingly" sits close to words such as abdulkadir, abed and abhay, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with chillingly
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
In that way, its commentary on Trump’s America is chillingly trenchant. (12 words)
Dylan’s words may be out of context but they are chillingly apt now. (14 words)
It all makes for perhaps the most chillingly sophisticated censorship mechanism in human history. (14 words)
And its techniques have been chillingly effective — the suppression of free speech when it comes to gender identity, ironically by those who are all too happy to exploit the language of rights and the law of 'hate crimes' to enforce their will. (42 words)
The way he goes from casual one minute to bone-chillingly threatening in the next is a testament to his acting abilities, and to see him put them to use as The Joker could be a perfect match. (38 words)
In the haunting and sickening clip the terrorist uses a Jewish woman's phone to call his parents where he chillingly boasts that he 'is a hero' after murdering Israelis with his 'own hands'. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
In the haunting and sickening clip the terrorist uses a Jewish woman's phone to call his parents where he chillingly boasts that he 'is a hero' after murdering Israelis with his 'own hands'.
Most chillingly, an identical attack had been reported six years earlier by the wife of another whistleblower in the French energy industry.
Rather chillingly for a novel that was already done and dusted when Rushdie was attacked, ’s late chapters describe Pampa’s convalescence after she is stabbed through the eyes.
The eight months of torture took place inside the Hudson shared with his then partner Summer Leadbetter - and culminated when the 23-year-old chillingly killed Binx.
And its techniques have been chillingly effective — the suppression of free speech when it comes to gender identity, ironically by those who are all too happy to exploit the language of rights and the law of 'hate crimes' to enforce their will.
As rare as hen’s teeth, they’re being stared down chillingly by the park’s other male tawny lion from a separate enclosure (quite amusing from my side of the fence).
A woman routinely subjected to abuse at the hands of her boyfriend was chillingly warned she would be “hunted down” after she escaped his clutches.
Chillingly, Natsumi told authorities she murdered the girl because she was making comments about her appearance in internet chatrooms.
He also chillingly suggested that wiping out Hamas' fighters would not end the conflict, saying, “Let’s say that they have destroyed Hamas.
Our duplicity, hypocrisy and doublespeak threaten not just the present (theirs and ours) but chillingly the future.
The action came as Iran's supreme leader chillingly vowed the killing of Hezbollah boss Hassan Nasrallah and a senior Iranian commander 'shall not go unavenged'.
Beijing was not particularly thrilled with the chillingly real prospect of a nuclear civil war right on its doorstep either.
Chillingly he says that based on evidence from clinicians as opposed to regulators something similar could happen now.
Dylan’s words may be out of context but they are chillingly apt now.
Gleefully echoing elements of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World franchise, and videogames like is hilariously dark, viciously violent, and potentially—chillingly—prescient.
He has become a drug buddy of the Neapolitan Camorra mafia, whose insidious influence Kapadia chillingly renders.
In that way, its commentary on Trump’s America is chillingly trenchant.
It all makes for perhaps the most chillingly sophisticated censorship mechanism in human history.
Small town bigotry and the grief of losing family members combine with the Blaine family’s curse to create a chillingly personal narrative.
The way he goes from casual one minute to bone-chillingly threatening in the next is a testament to his acting abilities, and to see him put them to use as The Joker could be a perfect match.
Common combinations with chillingly
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: