How to Use cold-blooded in a Sentence

cold-blooded

adjective
  • The move, while cold-blooded and shocking, was lauded by most fans and the media.
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Events of the past week have established for all time that Hamas is nothing but a pack of cold-blooded killers.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Boyd didn't know it then, but that was the beginning of a 15-year search for her daughter that would pit her against a cold-blooded killer.
    Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Because fish are cold-blooded and don’t live on land, they’re not considered meat.
    Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 13 Feb. 2024
  • But from late fall through early spring, cold-blooded catfish bite better during the day when the sun warms the water.
    Pete M. Anderson, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Juliette Lewis and Peter Dinklage have a cold-blooded face-off in a new Western film.
    Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 23 July 2024
  • God of a lack of abundance, cold-blooded, ascendant, how do the animals treat you, god?
    Alice Gribbin, The New York Review of Books, 2 Nov. 2023
  • These were the actions of a cold-blooded, calculated killer.
    Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 2 July 2024
  • For all the handshakes and hugs this weekend, Betts was a cold-blooded terminator between the lines.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Being cold-blooded, the chilly depths cause their cells to slow down, resulting in slower growth but also less wear and tear over time.
    Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Fassbender is the main reason these episodes work so well: his cold-blooded calm thinly masks a state of crisis.
    Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 28 Nov. 2024
  • In the aftermath of his arrest, some of James’ friends are baffled by how the father of six could possibly be a cold-blooded killer.
    Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The Ice Age made the islands inhospitable to reptiles, whose cold-blooded bodies need heat from the surroundings to function.
    Sarah Fecht, Popular Science, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Klay Thompson sent it to double overtime, burying his ice-cold start to the game with a cold-blooded 3 with six seconds remaining.
    Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Dre is a cold-blooded murderer, there’s no mistaking that part of her persona.
    Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Paul Walter Hauser is known for both his warm-hearted and cold-blooded characters on screen.
    Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 15 May 2024
  • While this can come in handy, the downside of being a cold-blooded animal is the struggle to survive in cold environments.
    Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 24 Feb. 2023
  • As if this isn’t a cold-blooded business every offseason.
    Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Paleontologists have gone back and forth over the years on whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded or cold-blooded.
    Riley Black, Popular Science, 29 June 2023
  • Her expertise with firearms and cold-blooded demeanor made even men wary of her, as she was known for her deadly precision and steady aim, according to the outlet.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
  • No psychological fallout for Tyson after his cold-blooded ax murder of a helpless dude in the last episode.
    Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2024
  • That was possibly the last time Bieber sent Beckham a press gift from his Drew House fashion line, but over the past few years, even the most cold-blooded aesthetes have given into the amphibious clog.
    Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 27 July 2023
  • However, back in the ‘80s, most viewed the brothers as cold-blooded killers who gunned down their parents for inheritance money and spending sprees.
    Jeetendr Sehdev, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
  • They are united in their need to act firmly, to reassert Israel’s deterrent power, and to avenge what appear to be hundreds of acts of cold-blooded murder.
    TIME, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Hamas’ cold-blooded, brutal murder of Berkeley native Hersh Goldberg-Polin drives home the horror of its terror tactics and the need for all remaining hostages to be freed.
    Marc Levine, The Mercury News, 5 Oct. 2024
  • The reason for the change was apparently so Han did not come off like a cold-blooded murderer… which, of course, was one of the things that made the character so interesting to begin with.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Amphibians are a class of cold-blooded vertebrates that include frogs, toads, salamanders and newts.
    Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Weaver gave the Alien series an emotional dimension beyond its cold-blooded thrills.
    A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Since a tip from his brother David led to Kaczynski’s arrest in April 1996, the family has claimed the writings reflected the mind of a paranoid schizophrenic, not a cold-blooded killer.
    Ray Sanchez, CNN, 11 June 2023
  • David Fincher’s The Killer is a darkly funny look at a cold-blooded murderer’s tedious daily routine.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2023

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