the cold

noun

: cold weather

The cold really sets in around late November and doesn't let up until April.

I stood there shivering in the cold.

Come in out of the cold.

Examples of the cold in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Les Airelles Courchevel’s Hans Anderson details were crafted in the 1990s, avoiding the cold corridors and austere, dusty libraries of centuries-old country houses. —Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 June 2026

Researchers think a hot, energetic wind blowing from Sgr A* created this structure by sweeping the cold gas away or heating it up. —Adam Harrington, CBS News, 4 June 2026

Ötzi died in a glacial area of the Italian Alps; the cold and relatively low oxygen preserved his body, effectively mummifying it for millennia. —Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 3 June 2026

The mission helped researchers better understand how Mars transformed from a wetter and potentially habitable world into the cold, dry planet seen today. —Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 June 2026

Rhymes for the cold

• ahold
• behold
• billfold
• blindfold
• cajoled
• consoled
• controlled
• cotswold
• eightfold
• enfold
• enrolled
• extolled