Sentence examples for cold opening from inspiring English sources

If you happened to miss it, Saturday Night Live did a "show opening" sketch (ironically called the "cold opening") in which Julian Assange preempts an Oval Office address to give us a "behind-the-scenes" look at what's cooking at "Wikileaks/TMZ".

The cold opening, the three- to five-minute teaser, will be followed by four acts of the story.

"We've been to a handful of pretty cold opening days, but this opening day is going to be the one I'll remember forever," Ricketts said.

It was performed at the dress rehearsal, but apparently it was too long to work as the show's "cold opening" ("Live from New York…").

The pre-title, cold opening was a great reintroduction to the characters – and for a few wonderful seconds it looked like the near-subliminal T-Dog was going to speak the first words of the season.

We met him in the cold opening of the season's first episode, and saw him beat to death a man who had stopped to help Rosetti's men change a flat tyre.

Faucets with ball valves have a single handle and an internal ball mechanism that is turned to align with the hot and cold openings.

This episode establishes the use of cold openings in The Office, a practice which continues for the rest of the series.

"Pinkeye" was the first South Park episode to feature a cold open, or an opening scene jumping right into the story before the opening credits are shown.

A variety of reviewers found the cold-opening, featuring Jim pranking Dwight by placing meatballs in his desk in an attempt to make Stanley laugh, funny.

In a cold open that mirrored the show's opening after Hillary Clinton's loss, Alec Baldwin played Trump while singing Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah".