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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
Often, an early frost is followed by a few frost-free days. Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Sep. 2025 According to historic data from the National Weather Service, this is when each region sees its average first frost, or temperatures dipping below 32 degrees. Brandi D. Addison, jsonline.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
The layer of wax or parchment paper will help the frosting stay neat. Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 25 Aug. 2025 Sister Jean and her brothers could request a specific menu — her favorite was chicken fricassee, homemade noodles and pound cake with lots of frosting. Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 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
  • Bureau staff were told the group itself, already gutted as part of mass layoffs at the State Department in July, would refocus on migration diplomacy and disaster response rather than its traditional refugee focus.
    Ted Hesson, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
  • That question frames an episode that opens not with battle, but with the kind of stillness that comes before disaster.
    JP Mangalindan, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Fort Worth bed bugs The B-plot of Episode 7 has Peggy setting up a Little Free Library in her front yard in an effort to build community.
    Jake Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Aug. 2025
  • His not winning it was considered a failure, and that bugged him.
    Brody Miller, New York Times, 21 Aug. 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
  • Wilson argued the Charlotte attack resulted from several failures, from lax ticket enforcement to reliance on private security, rather than policies from Cooper’s tenure.
    Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Now, as a photojournalist working with the Kansas City Defender and as the creator of the upcoming podcast Fountain City Files, Harrison focuses on stories involving missing Black women, systemic failures in law enforcement and community neglect.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Don't push sales and annoy people.
    Nitin Gupta, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Comments about my fast walk annoy me.
    Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 5 Sep. 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
  • The women were too busy cooking, crafting, and caring for the family to bother with the stone tools used by men in hunting and building.
    Sarah Durn, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Why ban books, Postman asked, if no one bothers to read them?
    Time, Time, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Frost.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/frost. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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