How to Use cold feet in a Sentence

cold feet

plural noun
  • So don’t get cold feet now, coach.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Plus, there could be a cost if the Fed starts to show cold feet.
    — Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2021
  • More automakers could get cold feet and scale back more plans.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 1 Sep. 2024
  • Yes, cold feet can make a difference.
    — Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Or, sometimes the non-comics get cold feet on a certain joke.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 12 May 2026
  • She's even shown having a one-on-one with a bride-to-be having cold feet.
    — Benjamin Vanhoose, People.com, 15 June 2025
  • This episode explored cold feet, warmed them up, and then cooled them off again in the final scene.
    — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 19 May 2021
  • Did Baltimore just get cold feet?
    — Jacob Robinson, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Brides with cold feet are coming up with new, creative ways to get out of their weddings.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 17 Sep. 2024
  • And a bride with cold feet is now a groom trying not to jilt his husband-to-be at the altar.
    — Jordan Riefe, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 July 2024
  • On the day the deal is supposed to be signed, in a packed boardroom, the old woman gets cold feet.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 30 June 2022
  • Did someone get cold feet and put a hold on the Amazon Fresh project?
    — Walter Loeb, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Well, don't have cold feet (ba dum tsss), because this foot-warming device works like a dream.
    — Cai Cramer, Peoplemag, 30 May 2023
  • But if Americans are getting cold feet, things could take a turn for the worse.
    — Lucy Bayly, CNN Money, 27 July 2025
  • For those who struggle with cold feet, even when blasting the heat, these are the perfect pair of socks for you.
    — Grace Wu, Good Housekeeping, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Meanwhile, the groom-to-be panicked, thinking his fiancee had cold feet.
    — Francesca Street, CNN, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Guests checking in will find rooms with hardwood floors topped with small rugs to prevent getting cold feet.
    — Miami Herald, 29 Nov. 2025
  • Aaron Pierre, who was tapped for the role of Malcolm X, got cold feet, too.
    — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Given the length of this trial, the parties agreed to give some time to see if anyone would get cold feet.
    — Nbc News, NBC news, 12 May 2025
  • Somehow, having cold feet the night before starting a new job caused your prized hire to change his/her mind.
    — Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2022
  • But East Berlin blinked and its Leipzig surrogates got cold feet.
    — David Schoenbaum, Foreign Affairs, 8 Nov. 2014
  • That gave the customer too much time to get cold feet; the appointment never happened.
    — Brendan I. Koerner, WIRED, 13 Jan. 2025
  • For instance, in a heavy and meaningful scene, Johnson has cold feet.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Mar. 2022
  • What seems to be a case of cold feet turns into a web of lies, and a matter of life and death for Higgins.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2021
  • But the reasons for its cold feet seemed to shift, and there was pressure from investors on both sides to make a deal happen.
    — chicagotribune.com, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Twitter soon agreed to Musk’s terms, yet the billionaire quickly got cold feet.
    — Bynicholas Gordon, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Whether that will turn out to be a safer bet as investors are starting to get cold feet over AI as well?
    — Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 5 Feb. 2026
  • But the night of the breakout, Mitchell got cold feet, and didn't follow through on her role in the escape plan.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN, 6 Feb. 2020
  • There has been no public indication so far that sponsors are getting cold feet.
    — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Kraft’s bid fizzled when Mr Buffett got cold feet, but the clash of ideologies is not over.
    — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017

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