How to Use cold-blooded in a Sentence
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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
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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
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Because fish are cold-blooded and don’t live on land, they’re not considered meat.
—Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 13 Feb. 2024
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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
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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
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For all the handshakes and hugs this weekend, Betts was a cold-blooded terminator between the lines.
—Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Dre is a cold-blooded murderer, there’s no mistaking that part of her persona.
—Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2023
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Paul Walter Hauser is known for both his warm-hearted and cold-blooded characters on screen.
—Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 15 May 2024
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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
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As if this isn’t a cold-blooded business every offseason.
—Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 4 Mar. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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Amphibians are a class of cold-blooded vertebrates that include frogs, toads, salamanders and newts.
—Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Oct. 2023
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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
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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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For example, children are taught that Americans are cold-blooded killers.
—Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Oct. 2023
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Some kids who used drugs were depressed or confused; others were cold-blooded perpetrators.
—Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2023
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The criminals were cold-blooded and purposefully going to kill, shoot our citizens at point-blank range — our children.
—Brie Stimson, Fox News, 24 Mar. 2024
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This fast growth implies that these ancient creatures had a high metabolic rate closer to that of warm-blooded animals than to cold-blooded reptiles.
—Kevin Padian, Scientific American, 1 May 2014
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The fact that Alexia (Rousselle) happens to be a cold-blooded killer is just another character trait, rather than a cause or symptom of her fluidity.
—Elaina Patton, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2023
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Scientists once thought of dinosaurs as sluggish, cold-blooded creatures.
—CBS News, 15 May 2024
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The result is a nightmarish fever dream of gang violence and robberies, scalp hunting and cold-blooded killings—one that disrupts any heroic or romantic fantasies of the frontier.
—Lucas Wittmann, Time, 13 June 2023
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Munger backed up Buffett on one of the most cold-blooded decisions at Salomon: to refuse to pay all of the deferred and vested compensation former chairman John Gutfreund claimed he was owed.
—Matt Schifrin, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
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By mid-November, the temperature starts to drop too fast for these cold-blooded reptiles to handle, and volunteers are finding more and more of them washed ashore in a hypothermic-state called cold-stunning.
—Lee Cowan, CBS News, 2 July 2023
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That migration suggests that some dinos may have developed the ability to generate body heat, unlike their cold-blooded cousins, whose internal temps were subjected to the whims of weather.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 15 May 2024
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