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frosted

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verb

past tense of frost

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Recent Examples of frosted
Adjective
Both share the same arresting architecture, frosted plates, and fine anglage. The Editors, Robb Report, 27 June 2026 Lifting a Smithwick's Red Ale, served in one of our six 1952 vintage Notre Dame frosted glass mugs, with the Victory March music and lyrics printed on the side. Pete Sampson, New York Times, 26 June 2026
Verb
At the Port Authority Bus Terminal expansion, half a mile uptown, Staller trained his lens on giant tubes of steel rimmed with teeth—core drill sections, frosted with snow, like colossal ziti topped with mozzarella cheese—which a crane was hoisting into place. Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026 Serve your cake or cupcakes frosted with cream cheese frosting at room temperature for the best taste and texture. Molly Allen, Southern Living, 19 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for frosted
Recent Examples of Synonyms for frosted
Adjective
  • The dessert chain has an expansive menu that includes cakes, crêpes, freshly made Belgium waffles, funnel cakes and hot and iced drinks.
    Fousia Abdullahi, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 July 2026
  • Beverage selections are generally limited to water (flat, sparkling or infused), iced and hot tea, coffee, espresso drinks and V8.
    Eve Chen, USA Today, 10 July 2026
Verb
  • Club homeowners are not merely annoyed by tourist bonanzas like the World Cup — Airbnb is FIFA’s official lodging partner — or the Ultra music festival, Spring Break and Formula 1 weekend.
    Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 16 July 2026
  • The equalising goal came in first-half stoppage time, with Norway coach Stale Solbakken visibly annoyed with referee Clement Turpin at the half-time interval.
    Dan Sheldon, New York Times, 11 July 2026
Adjective
  • As Earth warms, an important source of methane is thawing permafrost, the permanently frozen ground found mostly in the Arctic.
    Vahe Peroomian, The Conversation, 13 July 2026
  • For the grand opening in Eagle the store offered sweet cream, chocolate, pistachio, strawberry, wild berry and frozen lemonade.
    Shannon Tyler, Idaho Statesman, 11 July 2026
Verb
  • The group alleged that as well as hacking their phones, journalists from the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday tapped landlines and bugged houses and cars.
    K.J. Yossman, Variety, 7 July 2026
  • When Riley returned to the table, La La told me that his high profile in the city sometimes bugged her, because fans were always interrupting them, even sitting down at their table.
    Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 17 May 2026
Adjective
  • Each new shipment of sod that arrived in refrigerated trucks costs about $250,000 — and teams likely would have to replace that sod at least once during an NFL season.
    A.J. Perez, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
  • However, frozen spinach loses only about 30% of its vitamin C compared to 75% for refrigerated spinach over the same timeframe.
    Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 2 July 2026
Verb
  • But the idea has irritated California’s billionaire class, and some have left the state in protest or threatened to do so.
    Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 29 June 2026
  • Hasslers, the researchers found, tended to be people who irritated the study respondents but whom the respondents could not escape.
    Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 15 June 2026
Adjective
  • To maximize their lifespan, Ford recommends keeping them in a cold place during dormancy, such as an unheated greenhouse, garage, or shed.
    SJ McShane, Martha Stewart, 14 July 2026
  • Potted plants can be brought indoors during cold snaps and stored in a cool location such as an unheated garage.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 11 June 2026
Verb
  • The problem Databento is solving has bothered anyone who has ever tried to get institutional-grade market data.
    Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 9 July 2026
  • There was a stretch of my adolescence, sometime in the early 2000s, when I was quietly convinced my life was a television show and no one had bothered to tell me.
    Alli Kushner, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026

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“Frosted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/frosted. Accessed 17 Jul. 2026.

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