Examples of unfreeze in a Sentence

We can't wait until the ground unfreezes so we can start gardening. The warm weather unfroze the lake. The Justice Department agreed to unfreeze the company's assets. I had to wait for my computer to unfreeze before I could read my e-mail. He helped me to unfreeze my computer.

Recent Examples on the Web Hackers have disrupted critical U.S. services in a series of attacks, demanding that companies pay a ransom to unfreeze data and computers. — David Westin, Fortune, 3 June 2021 Change all freezes to slows! Make frozen players take no damage! Shoot frozen teammates to unfreeze them! — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2021 The hackers encrypted computer after computer, then demanded payment, in bitcoin, to unfreeze the systems. — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2021 South Korean media have reported the deal to unfreeze the funds was reached after discussions with Washington. — Dominic Dudley, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2021 In September, a federal judge ordered the IRS and Treasury to unfreeze any payments. — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 9 Mar. 2021 Iranian media reported the deal to unfreeze the money was made following a meeting between Iran's Central Bank CPF -1.1% governor Abdolnaser Hemmati and South Korea’s ambassador to Iran Ryu Jeong-hyun, held at the latter’s request. — Dominic Dudley, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2021 Glimmers of a broader thaw could be seen in South Korea’s decision Monday to unfreeze a significant sum of Iranian money blocked in its banks because of U.S. financial sanctions. — Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2021 Zuberi, Person, and others met at the Four Seasons Hotel in Paris in May 2015 with the alleged Libyan deputy prime minister to try to figure out how to unfreeze the billions. — Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, 19 Feb. 2021

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