cold front

noun

Definition of cold frontnext
as in chill

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Recent Examples of cold front Monday is expected to stay dry, with temperatures around 78 degrees, before a cold front brings the area’s next chance of rain, 20% to 40%, Monday night, the weather service said. — Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2026 Rain chances finally return Saturday afternoon with a cold front that will keep winds gusting near 30 mph. — October 22, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026 Windy conditions will start to pick up later Saturday afternoon after a potent cold front slices through the Mid-Atlantic and eastern North Carolina and brings a major cooldown and some rain. — Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026 Houston is in for a much cooler weekend after its first fall cold front, but blustery winds will arrive first. — Newsroom Meteorologist, Houston Chronicle, 16 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for cold front
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cold front
  1. chill
  2. cold wave
  3. coldness
  4. cold
  5. bite
  6. chilliness
  7. deep freeze
  8. freeze
Noun
  • Nothing sounds better than birria when a chill hits the October air.
    — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 24 Oct. 2026
  • The chill was slipping through the cracks in her windows and warps in her 48-year-old trailer.
    — Rachel Siegel, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of chill
Noun
  • The region faced another brutal, 19-degree cold wave in January 1985 that again froze millions of orange trees on thousands of acres across Central Florida.
    — Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 June 2026
  • The impact of a cold wave is delayed but sustained.
    — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2026
Definition of cold wave
Noun
  • The house was a metaphor for the coldness of a relationship that’s faded and atrophied.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 28 Sep. 2026
  • The danger occurs if that ruthlessness veers into institutional coldness.
    — James McNicholas, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of coldness
Noun
  • In Switzerland, someone with a cold might still address it by pouring a homeopathic liquid onto sugar cubes and then ingesting them.
    — D. T. Max, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Ramsay adds the crème fraîche cold at the end to stop the cooking and bring richness to the dish.
    — Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of cold
Noun
  • Shamonda virus is spread by bites from a type of fly called a midge.
    — Amanda Erickson, STAT, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Eleven people remain missing after an 89-hour search; several survivors suffered injuries consistent with shark bites.
    — Jaimie Ding, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of bite
Noun
  • Or that Penélope Cruz’s sultry chilliness would jibe with either her male counterparts or Wilde’s diary-of-a-mad-housewife interpretation of a brittle, eager-to-impress woman brimming with creative frustration.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2026
Definition of chilliness
Noun
  • Higher rates have already put the housing market in an early deep freeze this fall.
    — Diana Olick, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2026
  • The historic Spencer-Windsor froideur is now more of a deep freeze.
    — Ashley Baker, Air Mail, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of deep freeze
Noun
  • Finance had heard about a procurement freeze during a renewal conversation.
    — Greg Genung, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Fuel duty freeze There was some good news for motorists amid high petrol prices as fuel duty will be frozen for the 16th year in a row.
    — Marc Shoffman, TheWeek, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of freeze

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