Sentence examples for chilled like from inspiring English sources

This being prime negotiating season, Mr. Lipton keeps himself in fighting form 24/7, chilled like a fine chardonnay.

Likewise, cabernet francs from the Loire Valley can be so refreshing lightly chilled, like a 2006 Chinon Les Granges from Bernard Baudry, which was smoky, pliant and fruity with a plate of spicy kung pao shrimp, or a Rioja crianza.

In a momentary lapse into real sleep, I had the briefest of dreams: I was sitting with my back against a tree, but it was nighttime, and it was raining so hard that not even the branches could protect me; water sluiced down on me each time the wind shifted, and I tried to huddle into myself, chilled like the blade of a knife that could cut me to the bone.

There has been a perception that hot sake is not good sake, and that the best sake is served chilled like a white wine.

At dusk, by candlelight, the tall rooms of the stone-built house were solemn and chilled, like an empty church or a school when the children are gone.

The over-all effect is at once mocking and chilling, like a funeral cortège with skeletons dancing behind.

Allah!" It was not an ecstatic cry; it was chilling, like the screams of a madman, or of someone being driven mad.

I confess to finding this transparency both comforting and chilling, like the photographs that kick-started the public's awareness of the affair.

Much of its information is attributed to unnamed "intelligence sources," but even skeptics may find certain headlines chilling, like this week's "Iraq Trains Bin Laden's Men in Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction".

She finds the sign "Welcome to Lagos" almost chilling – "like some kind of sick joke" – while the motto "Centre of Excellence" printed on the city's car number plates is dismissed as a ridiculous conceit.

Bartenders talk about ice and chilling like obsessive chefs talking about baking and braising.