FREEZE in a Sentence

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Now that it's November, our office thermostat is set lower - some might say, chilly, or even, perhaps, freezing.

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 Meanings and Examples of FREEZE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
freeze
 n.  fixing (of prices or wages etc) at a particular level
 n.  weather cold enough to cause freezing
Classic Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  And should a gentleman be so ill bred as to indicate an interest in her, she must freeze him with a dignified but well-chosen reference to her dead husband.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
2  If he was any other man in the world I could simply freeze up and order him off.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  And the convicts had marched out too, to die in the twilight of the Confederacy, to freeze in the snow and sleet of that last campaign in Tennessee.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
4  Don't freeze me, please, Miz Wilkes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
5  The dead man was frozen through, 'just as stiff as a dressed turkey you hang out to freeze,' Jake said.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIV
6  In summer the stench of the warm lard would be nauseating, and in winter the cans would all but freeze to his naked little fingers in the unheated cellar.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
7  The winter came, and the place where he worked was a dark, unheated cellar, where you could see your breath all day, and where your fingers sometimes tried to freeze.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
8  It came on to freeze with a North wind blowing; the snow fell small and fine like hoar frost, and our shields were coated thick with rime.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XIV
9  And that,' said Rosa Dartle, 'is so strong a claim, preferred by one so infamous, that if I had any feeling in my breast but scorn and abhorrence of you, it would freeze it up.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 50. Mr. PEGGOTTY'S DREAM COMES TRUE
10  I don't think that I am a coward, Watson, but that sound seemed to freeze my very blood.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
11  I said to myself, 'The moon is bright: it is going to freeze.'
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX—THE MAN WITH THE BELL
12  We have travelled fast," said she; "but it is freezingly cold.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SNOW QUEEN
13  Now all that mattered was food enough to keep off starvation, clothing enough to prevent freezing and a roof overhead which did not leak too much.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
14  For three minutes or more he was seen swimming like a dog, throwing his long arms straight out before him, and by turns revealing his brawny shoulders through the freezing foam.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13. Wheelbarrow.
15  It was a short, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean, whose freezing spray cased us in ice, as in polished armor.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22. Merry Christmas.
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  A hug distance is exactly right for me when thoughts freeze.
2  OPEC has agreed to freeze its global oil production slightly in order to firm up crude prices.
3  He slipped and broke his leg during the big freeze.
4  The weather report advised us to prepare for a big freeze.
5  She'll prepare the food ahead of time and freeze it.
6  Ice could freeze up their torpedo release mechanisms.
7  The staff have agreed to a voluntary wage freeze.
8  The automaker said it plans to freeze car and truck prices by the end of the decade.
9  It's demanding fuel oil and an end to sanctions in exchange for a nuclear freeze.
10  We're more united than ever, we're feeling exhilarated again, rousing from a crushingly bleak freeze.
11  Temperatures can drop well below freezing in midwinter.
12  An electric fan heater maintains a temperature just above freezing point.
13  Scientists have used genetic engineering to protect tomatoes against the effects of freezing.
14  The temperature remained below freezing point throughout the day.
15  Now that it's November, our office thermostat is set lower - some might say, chilly, or even, perhaps, freezing.