Sentence examples for would be chilly from inspiring English sources

She knew, she told me, the reception would be chilly.

I knew it would be chilly but when I saw leaves falling off the trees I thought someone had dropped a nuclear something!

Still, a season built exclusively on tabards, A-line tunics and stripped-down leathers would be chilly and forbidding were it not for the madcap frills that lend it its glamour — and inimitable character.

Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, said a Republican-controlled Congress would be chilly to the idea of abolishing the Electoral College if, in fact, Mr. Bush wins the presidency as a result of the workings of the system.

I was headed for London, which I knew would be chilly, but, inspired by Galliano, I decided I could get away with wearing everything in my suitcase at the same time: a short silk dress with a knotted hem over a long frayed slip over knitted trousers, and, on top of it all, a mohair poncho.

You might think that a home using zero net energy would be chilly inside.

A spokeswoman for the Postal Service, Diane Todd, said that improvements in the heating system were being made, but that one area of the building the employees and union officials complained about would inevitably be chilly "on days when it was really cold".

Without it, the earth's surface would be a chilly –20°C or so.

That decision brought some concern that the beachfront swimsuit photo opportunity the Sunday morning after the pageant would be a chilly affair.

Mr. Bush had once joked that it would be a chilly Thanksgiving for his younger brother Jeb, if Florida did not tip into the Bush column.

The atmosphere is likely to be chilly.