How to Use freeze to death in a Sentence
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Are they supposed to let a 5-year-old child freeze to death?
—Hallie Golden, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2026
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Are they supposed to let a 5-year-old child freeze to death?
—Caroline Cummings, CBS News, 23 Jan. 2026
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If the sea ice breaks up under them, the young chicks will drown or freeze to death.
—Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2023
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If its heating system fails, the crew could freeze to death.
—David W. Brown, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
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In the camps that winter, deep in a valley, men could freeze to death in their sleep.
—James Freeman, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2021
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Texans trying not to freeze to death in their own homes while the power is out.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2021
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Across the state, some Texans with shelter would freeze to death in their homes.
—Liz Hardaway, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Mar. 2020
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But, if there’s cloud cover, Lucy will likely freeze to death, lost in the woods.
—Issy Van Der Velde, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2025
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They can be electrocuted, drown, set themselves on fire with a faulty stove or fireplace, or freeze to death.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024
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If residents are unable to house all dogs, animals might starve or freeze to death in winter.
—Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Apr. 2022
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Animals can freeze to death outside if precautions aren’t taken.
—Cathy M. Rosenthal, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Dec. 2021
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When the plane hits high altitudes, others are asphyxiated or freeze to death.
—Krista Stevens, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
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Low winter temperatures made rescue work even more pressing, amid fears that some people could freeze to death before they could be saved.
—Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2023
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Miller said livestock growers across Texas are out of feed, while a lack of available natural gas has caused some chickens and calves to freeze to death.
—Dallas News, 18 Feb. 2021
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Most perplexing of all, snakes emerged from underground hibernation, only to freeze to death in their thousands.
—WIRED, 30 Mar. 2023
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Of course, the vet last week said this isn’t how people freeze to death, so we’re left to wonder whether the forensics guys are in the mine’s pocket also or if the vet was just wrong.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 9 Feb. 2024
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Additionally, some penguins who are forced into the water escape but later freeze to death.
—Joyann Jeffrey, PEOPLE, 9 Apr. 2026
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Milius donned a snowsuit, but Wilford was unprotected and quickly began to freeze to death.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 1 Sep. 2024
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Though Zeke did in fact freeze to death in the cave, like the 828 passengers, he was resurrected a year later.
—Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 17 July 2021
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The clear message was that leaders who crossed the Kremlin could literally see their populations freeze to death.
—Joseph R. Biden, Foreign Affairs, 5 Dec. 2017
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In addition, don’t leave pets alone in a car during cold weather, as cars can act as refrigerators that hold in the cold and cause animals to freeze to death.
—Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 16 Dec. 2025
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The aforementioned hypothermia is also contributing to deaths on the front lines, with Forbes reporting that many freeze to death in the harsh Ukrainian winters.
—Justin Klawans, The Week, 2 Apr. 2023
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Employees told investigators that dogs were poorly cared for and abused, including hitting them with pipes, whipping them to force them to obey commands and letting puppies freeze to death, the warrant said.
—Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 1 Aug. 2022
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Concerns over the falling standards of living were equally dismissed, as the nation obsessed with how to make a penny stretch and the media dispensed tips and tricks on how not to freeze to death in your own (very expensive) home.
—Mohamed El Aassar, Fortune, 15 Dec. 2022
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The Taliban quickly seized control of much of the country and the foreign aid that been flowing into the country largely halted, putting at risk the lives of millions of Afghans who could starve or freeze to death.
—chicagotribune.com, 30 Jan. 2022
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At various points, the danger looms that Fern will freeze to death while sleeping in her camper in extreme cold; be attacked by people at rest stops; break down in the middle of nowhere and die of exposure or dehydration.
—Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic, 19 Apr. 2021
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That’s right — all of your favorite characters, including the catchphrase-spouting Baby Sinclair, freeze to death thanks to the looming Ice Age.
—William Earl, Variety, 31 Aug. 2022
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The initial complaint, filed February 13, by Margaret Mitchell, Mitchell’s mother, and the administrator of his estate, alleged he was placed in a restraint chair in a jail freezer and left to freeze to death by officers.
—al, 20 Mar. 2023
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