Sentence examples for standing the cold from inspiring English sources

His shipmates, he said, were "extraordinary fellows for standing the cold – with the thermometer at 22° below Bentzen goes up in his shirt and trousers to read the thermometer on deck".

According to the ABC News account, the six techniques used by the CIA on the "dozen top al-Qaeda targets" were "The Attention Grab," "Attention Slap," "The Belly Slap" and three other techniques that are particularly worrying: "Long Time Standing," "The Cold Cell," and, of course, "Waterboarding".

Or last metaphor-for-climate-change standing – the pale, deadly-cold Others and their troops of the barrow-wightish, zombie-ish Undead with their LED blue eyes who bring endless winter?

For some New Yorkers, standing in the cold was unavoidable.

I was kept standing in the cold for the whole night.

Quietly standing in the cold dark lane, they suddenly appeared adrift in their own city.

As darkness fell, people were still arriving, remembering and standing in the cold.

And now he was standing in the cold, as an actual ethnic African-American declared victory.

We were standing, in the cold, a block from Maidan Nezalezhnosti.

"There's nothing more we can do," Mr. Quillen said, standing in the cold.

But back to Margate, where I am standing in the cold and soft drizzle.