How to Use refreeze in a Sentence

refreeze

verb

• This will cause any slushy spots to refreeze overnight.
  — Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2022
• The heat from your home drifts up and through the roof, melting the snow that runs down and refreezes as ice in the gutters.
  — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Aug. 2023
• There is no need to contact the NCRA at the end of the unfrozen period to refreeze your credit file.
  — Yec, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
• That is expected to cause ice and snow that melts during the day to refreeze and create slick roads.
  — Saphora Smith, NBC News, 19 Feb. 2021
• Freezing, thawing, then refreezing over and over again will cause the flour to go bad over time.
  — Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, 20 July 2023
• Overnight temperatures sunk to the 30s and even high 20s in some areas, and roads that were wet overnight could refreeze.
  — oregonlive, 2 Dec. 2022
• Any leftover moisture on the roads will refreeze leaving a few slick spots.
  — Dallas News, 24 Feb. 2022
• The study suggests that Greenland’s lakes don’t always refreeze in the winter.
  — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 2 Apr. 2021
• To freeze fresh fish, wrap in moisture- and vapor-proof packaging and store for 3 to 6 months (never refreeze fish).
  — Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Aug. 2022
• As the avalanche comes to a rest, this liquid can quickly refreeze again, locking the snowpack in place like concrete.
  — CBS News, 11 Jan. 2024
• Sea ice is frozen ocean water that melts each summer, then refreezes each winter.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2023
• This past week, Guenther said, the sea ice in the Arctic was struggling to refreeze—another scary feedback loop.
  — Lizzie Widdicombe, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2020
• Any wet or slushy areas will refreeze, so use caution driving and walking.
  — Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2022
• Last week came the news that the Arctic is stubbornly refusing to refreeze at its normal rate as the long northern night descends.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2020
• On Alaska’s North Slope, oil producers now use cooling rods to refreeze the melting permafrost on which their rigs sit.
  — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2020
• Subfreezing temperatures can refreeze the snowmelt and turn roads into a sheet of ice.
  — Dennis Mersereau, Outside Online, 21 Feb. 2019
• Any standing water or moisture has the potential to refreeze overnight as temps dip into the 20s, the weather service warned.
  — Malak Silmi, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Feb. 2022
• Any lingering wet or slushy areas from snowfall during the day will refreeze.
  — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2022
• Reheating is just as delicate: if the coral is warmed too slowly, melting ice can refreeze and tear through the cells’ outer membranes.
  — Popular Science, 8 Nov. 2023
• Reheating is just as delicate: If the coral is warmed too slowly, melting ice can refreeze and tear through the cells’ outer membranes.
  — WIRED, 11 Nov. 2023
• Further east, areas like Troutdale are less likely to refreeze.
  — oregonlive, 16 Feb. 2021
• This mechanism applies equally to breaking up a mass of ice in the storage area of a home ice machine, which can melt and refreeze over time, fusing together.
  — Popular Science, 25 Feb. 2021
• Any melting seen on Friday will refreeze by Saturday AM.
  — Dallas News, 4 Feb. 2022
• Any melting will quickly refreeze leading to very slippery roads, sidewalks and parking lots.
  — Dallas News, 18 Feb. 2021
• Though snowfall has paused for now, strong winds continue to damage trees and power lines while low temperatures overnight caused slushy areas to refreeze overnight, per the Post.
  — Rachael Lallensack, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2022
• Icy roads, slick sidewalks and lane closures are expected to stick around this weekend as temperatures drop into the 20s overnight Friday — causing the snow that’s still on the ground to refreeze.
  — oregonlive, 24 Feb. 2023
• If the number of consecutive days cold enough to keep ice solid dwindles, this would accelerate the freeze, thaw and refreeze yo-yo that streets already endure.
  — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2021
• Temperatures will dip back down to the low 20s and high teens, refreezing any melt from Friday and possibly making side streets even more treacherous.
  — oregonlive, 24 Feb. 2023
• And there’s another problem: Water from melting ice may simply run back and refreeze elsewhere.
  — Hui Hu, The Conversation, 4 Mar. 2021
• Flat floes of sea ice with fresh snow on top, areas of open water that are beginning to refreeze, and neighboring smaller icebergs, are all visible in the photograph.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 15 May 2018

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