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The phrase "a chilly spell" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a period of cold weather, typically lasting for a few days or weeks.
Example: "After the warm summer, we experienced a chilly spell that made everyone reach for their winter coats again."
Alternatives: "a cold snap" or "a cold spell".
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There was a chilly spell of silence.
Poland normally has a chilly spell in late August, followed by a złota jesień (golden autumn).
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A slightly chilly spell causes communications systems to collapse, the transport network buckles under three millimetres of snow, shops are forced to close by a sustained frost and we all end up eating decades old tins of Alphabetti Spaghetti.
Light and space-saving yet toasty warm, the inexpensive cardigans and shells I picked up on sale for about $99 each at J. Crew and Banana Republic a couple of seasons ago have seen me stylishly through chilly spells in London and San Francisco.
A warm January, a chilly start to spring, an early-April hot spell complete with brush-fire outbreaks, and now, freezing winds driving the rain into the sockets of your skull.
The increased demand, he said, started with a chilly snap in the Northeast late last winter and continued during prolonged hot spells during the summer in the Southwest and California.
(Bale can be such a chilly actor, but here he plays a chilly man, whose very gait spells bewilderment, and the result is unexpectedly touching).
Maybe it took a chilly man to find change chilly.
Outside, it's a chilly late November.
There's a chilly pause.
He got a chilly reception.
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