The lieutenant tilted his head to one side and uttered a single, chilling word: "Bannock."

She would not let him know how unhappy his chilling words had made her.

It's here, on the word "chilling," that Woods's phenomenon becomes clearer.

"Game on" just might be the two most chilling words uttered this season.

Then came the most chilling words of the afternoon.

The woods were silent as the men considered his chilling words.

He felt her shiver of revulsion, and he heard the chilling words.

When she spoke, it was in that same little-girl voice, which made her words all the more chilling.

They got sick. . . . Those were the first chilling words that we heard.

The chilling words drove in a moment of silence.