be blue with cold

Frequency: 5.02.1 per million words

For skin to have a bluish appearance due to extreme cold.

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Examples (10)

  • My hands were blue with cold.
  • After hours in the snow, his lips were blue with cold.
  • The child's tiny fingers were turning blue with cold.
  • If you stay in that icy water any longer, your feet will be blue with cold.
  • By the time the rescuers found him, the lost hiker was blue with cold and barely conscious.
  • Her face was blue with cold as she waited for the bus in the freezing wind.
  • Look at the swimmer! His skin is almost blue with cold.
  • The mountaineers knew that once their extremities were blue with cold, it was a sign of severe hypothermia.
  • The sailors, drenched by the icy waves, found their hands were becoming blue with cold.
  • Without proper gloves, my knuckles are always the first to be blue with cold in winter.