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.