The phrase "a chilly atmosphere" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an environment or setting that feels cold, either literally in temperature or figuratively in terms of emotional tone or social interaction.
Example: "As the guests arrived at the party, they were met with a chilly atmosphere that made them feel unwelcome."
Alternatives: "a cold ambiance" or "a frosty environment".
A brooding, chilly atmosphere pervades everything on screen.
(This may require adjusting the thermostat to an accommodatingly chilly atmosphere)." ― Leslie Blanchard, blogger at A Ginger Snapped. 5. "My husband knows I can't stand when he leaves his dirty clothes on the floor.
The Venice premiere began "in an inexplicably chilly atmosphere," according to Tino Ranieri, and "the audience, who rather disliked it as the screening began, seemed to change opinion slightly toward the end, yet the movie didn't receive in any sense of the word the response that it deserved".
In the blinding heat of that love, Martha appears to have missed a clue to the otherwise chilly atmosphere of the sisters' childhood.
A friend, now suspended from his job at Hungarian national radio for opposing the media law, says the chilly atmosphere at a recent editorial meeting was "like the [Stalinist] '50s" - except, of course, that it was funny, not scary, and no one was tortured afterward.
Still, Mrs. Clinton may have contributed to the chilly atmosphere in her remarks just before the meeting.
You could imagine the chilly atmosphere at the breakfast table, the prime minister is said to have remarked to friends afterwards.
But in the chilly atmosphere that Lochte's lies had created, the people who bought the tickets were in no mood to give an American the benefit of the doubt.
Over 40 years later, an article in the Washington Herald claimed that Mrs. Davis' heavy shawl had been placed on him to protect him from the "chilly atmosphere of the early hour of the morning" by the slave James H. Johnson, Davis' valet who served Davis during the Civil War.
This balance has kept the planet at a comfortably warm average temperature of 14C (57F), compared with a chilly -18C (0F) if there were no carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
