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as in rime
a covering of tiny ice crystals on a cold surface the wintertime routine of scraping the frost off the car's windshield every morning

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verb

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Recent Examples of frost
Noun
With frost and freezing temps this week, Michiganders may be starting to plan ahead for fulltime winter weather that can freeze pipes and lead to more significant problems. Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 9 Oct. 2025 According to the National Weather Service website, a frost advisory is issued when temperatures drop to be 33 to 36 degrees on clear and calm nights during the growing season. Noe Padilla, IndyStar, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
For that occasion, FLOTUS donned a crepe off-the-shoulder column gown in sunflower from Carolina Herrera’s Wes Gordon, which was accented with a lilac silk belt with a covered buckle, and light lilac frosted pumps from Manolo Blahnik. Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2025 This includes liquids and liquidy things, such as any drink, yogurt, syrup, soup, jams and jellies, condiments, or anything jarred in oil, as well as spreadables like nut butters, pâté, creamy cheeses, frosting, and dips and spreads such as hummus. Jessie Beck, AFAR Media, 16 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for frost
Recent Examples of Synonyms for frost
Noun
  • In temperatures below freezing, fog can actually deposit ice onto objects at or near the ground, called rime ice.
    Ross Lazear, The Conversation, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Waddington is notorious for its fickle weather—the peak is regularly hit by storms off the Pacific Ocean that freeze the summit in rime ice.
    Corbin Reiff, Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Because of its proximity to the stadium, Panoramic Hill is often first in line for disaster preparedness measures, including the thinning of brush and eucalyptus trees on the hill, Berkeley resident Kevin Casey said.
    Austin Meek, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • And why this all might be a financial and environmental disaster waiting to happen.
    NPR, NPR, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Co-worker bugging you during heads down time?
    Sam Woodward, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Banks has bugged Kerkering to clean his locker, to no avail.
    Charlotte Varnes, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The hoar frost made the trees sparkle as though Earthquake Park were contained in a snow globe.
    Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Jan. 2022
  • Furthermore, the clear conditions preceding the storm could have led to the formation of a layer of light, feathery frost, known as surface hoar.
    Douglas Preston, The New Yorker, 10 May 2021
Noun
  • He has also been charged with following too closely, no registration and failure to exercise due care on Interstate 85 in Jackson County, about 62 miles northeast of Atlanta.
    Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2025
  • She was charged with reckless driving causing serious impairment of a body function and failure to stop at a scene of accident resulting in serious impairment or death, the prosecutor said.
    Mike Stunson, Kansas City Star, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • He was annoyed when people advocated that.
    Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Some people may be annoyed with thousands of fake videos of themselves flooding the internet, but Paul seems to be amused by it.
    Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The cave walls shimmer with hoarfrost, delicate ice filaments that resemble an intricate frozen lacework.
    Scott Travers, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
  • From a reading delivered in November in Richmond, Virginia. e began to figure it out on day eleven or twelve of the seven-day trip, the slate and obsidian waves rolling under our stern, the crispy hoarfrost of whitecap foam seeding in our beards, the wind spitting ice in our eyes.
    Mark Richard, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Such hard coaching would bother some players.
    Jay King, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Continue reading … HIT THE ROAD – Duffy responds to trucker who 'couldn't be bothered' to learn English in America.
    , FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2025

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“Frost.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/frost. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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