How to Use stone-cold in a Sentence
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On the court, Brunson is a stone-cold killer.
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James L. Edwards Iii,
New York Times,
3 June 2026
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Caneiro stood still with a stone-cold face as the judge read the sentence for each charge.
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Alexa Herrera,
CBS News,
19 May 2026
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Peterson is a stone-cold killer on the court in terms of competitiveness.
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Sam Vecenie,
New York Times,
18 June 2026
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His career spans half a century and includes both stone-cold classics and some of the worst and weirdest Hollywood movies ever made.
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K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
24 Apr. 2026
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The hard-rocking Appetite for Destruction was a stone-cold smash, albeit an initially slow-burning one.
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Greg Evans,
Deadline,
26 June 2026
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Jalen Brunson, the stone-cold shooter built for these moments, buried a 3 from the top of the arc that made it 95-86 during a 9-0 Knicks run, to the delight of the visiting fans.
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Ryan Morik,
FOXNews.com,
9 May 2026
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Courtside, before a battle, Osaka’s deep colorways and the many translucent but somehow impenetrable layers of the vast floor-dragging skirt work as armor inspiring stone-cold dread in all prospective opponents.
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Guy Martin,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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Why shouldn’t Patrick Lynch, Patrick Hendry, Scott Munro and the rest of the NYPD unions defend a stone-cold guilty action by two thugs who’re supposed to protect us?
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Voice Of The People,
New York Daily News,
21 Apr. 2026
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Houston beat us, stone-cold beat us.
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Blair Kerkhoff,
Kansas City Star,
13 Mar. 2026
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Plus, stone-cold shooting haunted Northfield in the first half.
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Patrick Saunders,
Denver Post,
14 Mar. 2026
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Carhartt's Detroit jacket is a stone-cold classic.
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Adam Cheung,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 Feb. 2026
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Two otherwise healthy, stone-cold-normal children died.
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Eli Cahan,
Rolling Stone,
19 Dec. 2025
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Game 3 of the World Series was a stone-cold thriller, with peaks of high drama and longueurs of exquisitely tense tedium.
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Steve Rushin,
The Atlantic,
2 Nov. 2025
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Secretary Kristi Noem is a stone-cold liar and has zero credibility.
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Ali Bauman,
CBS News,
8 Jan. 2026
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Here, Victor Frankenstein (Ralph Bates) is a posh womanizer and stone-cold sociopath.
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Katie Rife,
Vulture,
9 Nov. 2025
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John Malkovich plays the stone-cold President Snow in pre-recorded videos that bookend the arena, looming over the show’s Katniss Everdeen in a crisp, white suit.
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Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Dec. 2025
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But in another sense, the victory over Canada on Thursday night at Santagiulia Arena was a stone-cold shocker.
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Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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Once upon a time, this stone-cold killer from a galaxy far, far away was merely another threat that stood between Arnold Schwarzenegger and survival in the jungles of Central America.
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David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
4 Nov. 2025
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And now the daughters and granddaughters of the Ladies Aid and League of Catholic Women’s groups are organizing food, shelter, and finances against stone-cold invaders.
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Literary Hub,
5 Feb. 2026
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This long list of accomplishments doesn’t even mention her work with the Raconteurs, her co-writes with Guy fuckin’ Clark, or that one of her records (2013’s Like a Rose) is a stone-cold classic of 2010s insurgent country.
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Stephen M. Deusner,
Pitchfork,
7 Apr. 2026
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Deep Space Nine, or Diane Keaton’s ex in Manhattan, or André’s dinner guest, or the stone-cold-serious playwright of The Designated Mourner, or even the boy who grew up with the mid-century New Yorker crowd.
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Christopher Bonanos,
Vulture,
23 Feb. 2026
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