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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The collection includes a spine-chilling ghost story by Edgar Allan Poe.
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The only journalist to witness the rebellion gave a spine-chilling account of atrocities carried out by both sides.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As for the promise to ban fox-hunting, it was given with such a blithe nonchalance as to be spine-chilling .
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He opened his eyes and was instantly aware of utter, spine-chilling silence.
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Head for the roller-coasters for a spine-chilling ride.
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Recollection of the day it visited Millbrook is especially spine-chilling .
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She talked about her boyfriends in a tone of most frightful, spine-chilling , whimsy determination, and they took it.