Stone-cold
"Stone-cold" in a Sentence (8 examples)
He was a stone-cold killer.
Please, I beg of you, do not use the phrase "stone-cold sober" ever again in any song lyrics.
Yanni was a stone-cold sociopath.
Though Tom had drunk a lot the night before, come the morning he was stone-cold sober.
Tom's a stone-cold murderer.
By the time I returned to my desk, my tea was stone-cold.
He was a stone-cold killer: he didn't flinch as he took the shot.
With an ace-high flush on an unpaired board, he had the stone-cold nuts.
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