How to Use cold-blooded in a Sentence

cold-blooded

adjective
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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Amphibians are a class of cold-blooded vertebrates that include frogs, toads, salamanders and newts.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • For example, children are taught that Americans are cold-blooded killers.
    — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Some kids who used drugs were depressed or confused; others were cold-blooded perpetrators.
    — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Scientists once thought of dinosaurs as sluggish, cold-blooded creatures.
    — CBS News, 15 May 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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