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