Sentence examples for cold picked from inspiring English sources

An ordinary cold picked up in late February 1855 turned into pneumonia, which the once mighty, but now apparently exhausted, organism refused to fight.

We meet the day before the opening and Price is struggling with a cold picked up during a trip to Paris to watch England's rugby team receive a drubbing from South Africa.

His achievements may have grown further but a severe cold picked up in early 1934 turned into pneumonia and he never recovered and died soon afterwards at the age of 55.

Which is better, to be served a plate of steaming, hot food, right off the grill or to be handed a plate of the same food, cold, picked apart and half-eaten?

"I like the whole thing," he said, "feeling the cold, picking up the decoys, and when I am home on Sunday and think about what I did on Saturday, I'm revitalized and prepared to go back to the office to be civilized for five days".

Here's what to choose: If you have a cold, pick up a decongestant.

So, if it is hot outside, go with something cool, while if it is cold, pick something a little bit warmer (but keep in mind that you will get hot when you start running around).

Gates, coughing from a cold he picked up in China, said he wondered if perhaps "fate and history chose me for this event".

"You have everybody here, lots of interesting people," he said in an interview last Friday, down with a cold he picked up dashing back and forth to East Timor last week to celebrate the birth of the world's newest country.

It was a lake-effect snowstorm, meaning cold winds picked up the warm, moist air over lakes, freezing it as it travelled before dumping it suddenly when those winds reached land.

On the night of the awards dinner in Manhattan, Mr. Ettlinger looked dapper in a dark suit, surrounded by family, but he warned the many people trying to shake his hand that he had a cold, possibly picked up at a bridge tournament a few days before.