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How to use icily in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word icily? Here are some examples.

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We ended the conversation icily with my promise to mull over the other topics and to provide her with something in writing.
You know that the cherries are sweet, the ciabatta baked that morning and the melon so ripe that each slice will dissolve icily in your mouth.
I glared icily at him, and then mimicked him in a false, high, nasal voice.
Mrs. Fitzgerald smiled icily at her son, and crooked a finger in the direction of the anxious butler.
He looked at each man in the room one by one and warned them icily what would happen if they were foolish enough to talk.
Any number of specters could be floating in the cold, thin air or cavorting among icily twinkling stars.
She is small and blond and snub-nosed, but she knows how to smolder icily and this dissonance is what makes her special.
The diplomatic exchanges between France and America are now, as they were then, icily polite at best.
Even worse, when he does meet Paulina, she icily tells John she has come to the studio to seriously study dance and not to look for a date.
So I tend to like warm-hearted people rather than those who are icily perfect.
Yet in Europe, and in particular France, he continues to be seen as an icily cool champion, his real thoughts hidden behind an intimidating mask of arrogance.
After we had changed over from the overheating bus, and settled into the new one, the passengers went back into that half dead icily detached gaze that they do.
A cold conflict is characterized by a cool or even icily quiet climate between the differing parties whereby eye contact and verbal exchanges are avoided.
This sort of behaviour is almost unheard of in Japan, where underlings rarely dare contradict the boss and the atmosphere tends to be icily formal.
But now, when business is verrry slow and the possibility of layoffs icily real, looking busy is no joke.
Then, slowly, a hammering noise comes to accentuate the track's rhythm to finish on the final screams of the 'Beast' that come to icily punctuate this excellent first side!
Examples from Classical Literature
Her words rang out crystalclear, more musical than the cooing of the ringdove, but they cut the silence icily.
The receptionist smiled icily at Tom, and then the smile vanished like a Martian polar cap.
Poyser in a hard voice, rolling and unrolling her knitting and looking icily out of the window, as she continued to stand opposite the squire.
Martin's cold blue eyes looked icily into his wife's blazing gray ones.
It seemed to him that the strength had gone out of his knees and hands, and that his feet had become icily slippery over the metal they trod upon.
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