How to Use cold storage in a Sentence

cold storage

noun
  • The cold storage space could be doubled to meet future needs.
    Katherine Feser, Houston Chronicle, 10 Feb. 2020
  • Maintain Bring potted bulbs like daffodils, hyacinths, and tulips out of cold storage and plant them in a warm, sunny spot in the garden.
    Heather Arndt Anderson, Sunset Magazine, 16 Mar. 2020
  • So Hector gets taken out of cold storage and the other decommissioned host bodies are torched.
    Scott Tobias, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2020
  • The situation would be more dire if not for record amounts of meat in cold storage, though much of the meat was intended for restaurants that now are largely closed.
    Author: David Pitt, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Apr. 2020
  • Once in the funeral home’s possession, the body will either be embalmed for burial or moved to cold storage to await cremation.
    Victor Llorente, Popular Mechanics, 24 Apr. 2020
  • Plants that bloom from midsummer into the fall need a period of cold storage in a plastic container or bag with moistened vermiculite or sand.
    Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2020
  • That’s because there are still hundreds of millions of tons of beef, chicken and pork piled up in cold storage, particularly since producers are no longer selling to shuttered restaurants and schools.
    New York Times, 11 Apr. 2020
  • One of the infected people worked in a cold storage unit, and the virus has been proven to survive in colder environments—like refrigerated supply lines—for a longer period of time.
    Naomi Xu Elegant, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Seafood coming from and going to China is piling up in freezer vans and cold storage indefinitely as the coronavirus continues to cause commerce chaos around the world.
    Anchorage Daily News, 3 Mar. 2020
  • Gonzalez said Palomino left him a voicemail last week requesting the use of River City’s cold storage facilities.
    Tom Orsborn, ExpressNews.com, 18 May 2020
  • One of the first four people to become infected as part of the most recent cluster worked at a cold storage warehouse, and officials raised the possibility that the virus was imported from overseas.
    Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2020
  • The case of Mitchel and Bonnie was again put in cold storage.
    Eric J. Greenberg, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2023
  • The need for cold storage in the region has been highlighted in the last year.
    Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 25 July 2022
  • Lacking cold storage for fresh drinks, the women had to pull carts filled with ice to sell the yakult.
    New York Times, 9 Nov. 2020
  • The idea was to remove the need for cold storage and extra labor.
    New York Times, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Even David Njoku came out of cold storage to make an excellent catch in the end zone.
    Terry Pluto, cleveland, 25 Oct. 2020
  • The amount of butter in cold storage is the lowest in at least four years, and 18% lower than last year.
    Solcyre Burga, Time, 30 Oct. 2022
  • The new morgue under construction will be able to hold 50 in cold storage.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2021
  • In Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and Texas, the butter used in sprawling sculptures is scraped off the frames and put in cold storage at the end of the fair.
    Joe Barrett, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2022
  • When that happens, food orders have to go in cold storage or be eaten.
    New York Times, 5 May 2022
  • Advocates of cold storage say the business’s growth prospects look bright.
    Esther Fung, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2020
  • Back in the summer, Dr. Michael Mina made a deal with a cold storage company.
    Veronique Greenwood New York Times, Star Tribune, 18 Feb. 2021
  • But down in cold storage, the Host in Black has other plans, and wakes the real William for another meeting.
    Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Thanks to cold storage, limes, lemons, navel oranges and grapefruit are available year-round.
    Casey Barber, CNN, 22 Feb. 2022
  • But the vaccine's cold storage requirement limits where and for how long they can be kept.
    Max Bayer, CBS News, 2 Sep. 2021
  • The seedlings, which come from a nursery in Minnesota, were frozen and dormant over the winter and shipped to Alaska in cold storage.
    Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2023
  • Ikegwuonu's ColdHubs are 10-foot-square cold storage units which keep produce fresh for up to 21 days.
    Rebecca Cairns, Video By Hazel Pfeifer, CNN, 23 Sep. 2021
  • For years the site was home to a cold storage facility that was demolished in 2018.
    Jim Buchta, Star Tribune, 30 June 2021
  • The state has also pledged a $15 million investment in a cold storage facility at the site.
    Tim Balk, New York Daily News, 14 May 2024
  • Two refrigerators for extra cold storage will remain with the home.
    Karen A. Avitabile, Hartford Courant, 28 Jan. 2024

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