How To Use Stone-cold In A Sentence

She was dead all right; stone-cold dead - and standing there before me. NIGHT SISTERS
by the time he got back to his coffee it was stone-cold
Handsets that are white-hot today will be stone-cold in six months.
When a black reporter recently ventured into a big Tea Party rally, a "greeter" confused the reporter for a stadium worker, stopping him stone-cold at the gate: "Are you working tonight? Richard M. Benjamin: GOP Strategy to Re-Take Congress: "A Heaping Plate of Soul"
I'm not talking the stylized shots from magazines where what's on the plate is so gussied up it's pretty much inedible (not to mention stone-cold), I mean good, honest home cooking. No Cheese, Please

Suffice it to contend that about thirty minutes in to a movie a entire assembly was visibly activated as well as energized by this stone-cold classic-for-eternity. Archive 2009-11-01
By this time, my fear had turned to stone-cold hatred. Show Stoppah
The widow Flannagan kneeling on the stone-cold tiles below the image of the Lord. Before the Bloodbath
Many people thought that the overly saccharine speech that Teri gave last episode was a stone-cold presage to her death.
But even a donnybrook might be better than stone-cold silence.
A little problem with this comparison; the President is actually stone-cold sober, having sworn off alcohol a long time ago. joejoejoe Says: Matthew Yglesias » Bush As Crank
Brig’s question was a challenge, his expression stone-cold. Ride the Thunder
He got up, surprised to find he was steady on his legs and stone-cold sober. THE ENDLESS GAME