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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
Warmer and longer springs and delayed fall frosts mean longer growing seasons for all kinds of plants, including those that produce pollen. Mark Gongloff, Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2025 Annuals are known for their amazing flower power, putting on an endless show from spring through frost. Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 6 Apr. 2025
Verb
Other creators confirmed the rumor and declared that the $5 slices would be made with frozen cake and frosting with jam filling in place of the fresh fruit. Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 9 Apr. 2025 Use a piping bag and decorative tip for the frosting or snip one corner off of a large ziplock bag. Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 8 Apr. 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
  • The disaster led to passage of the Federal Coal Mine and Safety Act, which in turn added the miners' surveillance program under the respiratory health division at NIOSH.
    Yuki Noguchi, NPR, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Last month, the EU Commission urged its 450 million citizens to stockpile enough food, water and essentials for 72 hours in the event of emergencies like cyberattacks, climate disasters, disease and also geopolitical conflicts.
    Vivian Song, CNN Money, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Aaron Boone said Bellinger’s back started bugging him during Thursday’s game against the Diamondbacks.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Ralph Macchio on the one thing that still bugs him about Karate Kid Part II My Cousin Vinny tells the story of three bombastic Italian-Americans caught up in an over-the-top legal drama.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 24 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • But sometimes the crystals grow particularly large, forming hoar frost.
    Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2014
  • 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
Noun
  • But in reality, every success is built on a failure.
    Omaid Homayun, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
  • These setbacks highlight the inherent risks of space operations, where even minor failures can cost hundreds of millions and set timelines back by months or years.
    Jackie Snow, Quartz, 19 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Waltz now has a bunch of top officials, and their teams, who are annoyed at him for drawing bad publicity.
    Marc Caputo, Axios, 25 Mar. 2025
  • However, standing in the middle of a road to capture the Eiffel Tower in the background is not only unsafe but can also annoy locals.
    Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 16 Mar. 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
  • Because Congress never bothered to write a law to establish it.
    Jay Cost, The Washington Examiner, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Chicago Bears - Will Campbell, OL, LSU Will Campbell has fallen a bit due to his shorter arm length, but that likely won't bother Ben Johnson.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025

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“Frost.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/frost. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.

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