The culvert, coarse and corroded, was painfully cold.

A high wind was blowing, and we were painfully cold and standing in slush.

That night we camped near a high lake, a small, perfect circle of painfully cold snowmelt.

Her teeth chattering from cold as she pulled on a pair of painfully cold jeans.

Her hands and feet were painfully cold and she was drenched from the sprinklers.

Nicholas lifted the binoculars and the eyepieces were painfully cold against his skin.

There were snowy peaks in the mountains and the water ran down from them painfully cold.

It felt freezing cold, painfully cold, but he held the hand steady.

One night, a painfully cold night in a mild winter, a teardrop hung from his nose and his eyebrows were white with frost.

Dergoul would describe how the temperature in the interrogation room would be set to painfully cold.