How to Use unfreeze in a Sentence

unfreeze

verb
  • The warm weather unfroze the lake.
  • He helped me to unfreeze my computer.
  • We can't wait until the ground unfreezes so we can start gardening.
  • I had to wait for my computer to unfreeze before I could read my e-mail.
  • The Justice Department agreed to unfreeze the company's assets.
  • For them, this means that future frozen rates will unfreeze, drop and then freeze again.
    Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The connection is fuzzy, the sound cuts out and the sonogram circles freeze and unfreeze black and white.
    Joseph Horton, Time, 13 Apr. 2020
  • The money had somehow gotten stuck, and the only way to unfreeze it was to send more.
    David Yaffe-Bellany, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Offred briefly unfreezes as her eyes well with silent tears.
    Rena Gross, Billboard, 16 May 2018
  • That’s low enough to unfreeze trade but high enough to still cause price increases.
    Matt Egan, CNN Money, 15 May 2025
  • If the agreement with the four colleges is approved, the new city spending will unfreeze.
    Steph MacHado, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Tap the shutter button to unfreeze the frame, and press the Home button to leave the Magnifier.
    J. D. Biersdorfer, New York Times, 16 May 2017
  • The Suns also need to move those players to get below the second apron and unfreeze their 2032 draft pick.
    John Hollinger, New York Times, 22 June 2025
  • With a freeze, that means unfreezing the account and then refreezing it once the credit check is done.
    Herb Weisbaum, NBC News, 8 Feb. 2018
  • The Uzbeks want the U.S. and Swiss to work together to unfreeze those remaining assets.
    Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2023
  • Change all freezes to slows! Make frozen players take no damage! Shoot frozen teammates to unfreeze them!
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2021
  • Consumers would be able to have their credit frozen or unfrozen within one hour of putting in the request via phone or email.
    NBC News, 13 Apr. 2018
  • First-time homebuyers would get a fat tax credit in a move to unfreeze the tight housing market.
    Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 11 Mar. 2024
  • And this group of 15 actors would freeze and unfreeze at the same time without anybody saying anything.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 13 Dec. 2024
  • There's a $10 fee to freeze — and another $10 fee to unfreeze credit — in Michigan in many instances.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Before our hero can so much as unfreeze a steak, Drasa is writing him messages to be read by rifle scope.
    Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The United States and Iran sign an agreement to release the hostages and unfreeze Iranian assets.
    CNN, 25 Oct. 2021
  • With the turnover from Obama to Trump, Low hoped the new administration would go easy on him and unfreeze his assets.
    Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Part of that is because most women who freeze their eggs still never unfreeze them, still never use them.
    Quartz Staff, Quartz, 7 Feb. 2022
  • And, to temporarily unfreeze it, there's another fee to pay in all but eight states.
    Christy Bieber, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2018
  • The solution---at least for human tissue---is to freeze and unfreeze the organ fast enough to keep ice from collecting on the surface.
    Neel Patel, Wired News, 5 June 2015
  • In the lead-up to last week’s sales, some of the same executives gamely suggested that the supply pipeline had unfrozen.
    Tim F. Schneider, New York Times, 19 May 2025
  • The agency has one to three days to institute the freeze — and an hour to unfreeze — if the request is made by telephone or electronically.
    Sean Rossman, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Going forward, consumers would not have to pay anything to freeze or unfreeze their credit.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 23 May 2018
  • Feeding America has spoken with the Trump administration about the pause and urged it to make a quick decision on whether to unfreeze the funds, Hall said.
    Leah Douglas, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2025

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