Sentence examples for icy nights from inspiring English sources

A woman bakes her husband's birthday cake elsewhere rather than disturb a family of mice seeking heat in her oven; and readers may forever see the moon on icy nights as Spinelli describes it: "silver as sleet".

But any one of these icy nights beneath the warbling stars, those shards of horns long shivered that still take solos, if you close your eyes you can almost sense my presence, holding down the cosmic bottom for billions of years, blowing the antisong of the antispheres.

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In winter, several fireplaces repel the chill of an icy night.

It is meant to be eaten at noon, but on an icy night no one will complain.

Three teenagers were playing basketball in the icy night on the courts next to the Seventh Avenue projects.

After the crowd dispersed, hundreds of young people waited in the icy night to see if there was a new location for the fight.

He accuses his friend of betrayal and then abandons him, wounded and bleeding, amid the Cambrian hills and the icy night.

Some remembered an icy night in 1996 when Mr. Boros used ropes to lash together a part of the tower that had become destabilized by a storm.

For "An Icy Night" (1898), he made a carbon print that seems made of the sootiness of the moody blue crepuscule.

The crime was audacious: on an icy night in January of this year, the concertmaster of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra was walking to his car carrying the violin after a performance when someone shot him with a Taser and snatched the instrument.