How to Use subzero in a Sentence

subzero

adjective
  • The doctor takes these eggs and puts them in a subzero freezer to preserve them.
    Colleen Stinchcombe, SELF, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Come up with the title of a good piece of music for this subzero merry-go-round.
    The Week Staff, The Week, 21 Apr. 2023
  • This is a warmup from last week's subzero temperatures and snow.
    Leah Olajide, Detroit Free Press, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Nothing polar, no more subzero weather is imminent, but a few more days in the 30s with slush?
    Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 18 Mar. 2021
  • The first snowfall of the season has brought subzero temperatures to a city plunged into darkness and cold by the attacks.
    Kostiantyn Khudov, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Here's a list of the longest consecutive stretches of subzero low temps at MSP.
    Todd Nelson, Star Tribune, 17 Feb. 2021
  • There were no days with subzero temperatures and rain fell on Christmas Eve, only the third such holiday with no snow on the ground in 82 years.
    Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Hargrave shot that part of the sequence over three nights in subzero temperatures.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 21 June 2023
  • The frozen embryos were stored at subzero temperatures, freeze-burning the patient’s hand and causing the patient to drop the embryos on the floor, destroying them.
    Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2024
  • But for Alankar, the downward pull comes principally from those subzero real rates.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2020
  • Cold snaps, like this month’s stretch of subzero temperatures, pose their own threats when already leaky systems encounter main breaks.
    Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Undeterred, Evans put his hat over his fist and punched out the remainder of the windshield and drove on, with nothing between him and the subzero temperatures of Britain’s coldest winter in 150 years.
    Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2023
  • There are few precedents in roughly 5,000 years of economic history for the widespread emergence of subzero debt in recent years.
    WSJ, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Emergency Blankets Growing up in Montana, where subzero temperatures don’t keep us from going to church, work, or school, I was taught to always keep blankets in the car.
    Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 14 Jan. 2024
  • February's spasm of subzero weather was a reminder that many winters are trending milder, with sudden outbreaks of bitter cold.
    Todd Nelson, Star Tribune, 12 Mar. 2021
  • In February 2021, this system collapsed amidst days of subzero temperatures, freezing rain, and record snowfall around the state.
    Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Feb. 2024
  • How does a call from a woman at a bus stop in subzero temperatures not classify as high priority?
    Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 7 Feb. 2024
  • On Thursday, water pipes, some of which were reinforced with metal, burst at the seams and in some cases sent water jetting through the ground as frigid, subzero temperatures reached levels near 32 degrees.
    Jake Dima, Washington Examiner, 21 Feb. 2021
  • Back in the 1960s, when the first sections of the Skyway were built, city leaders envisioned them as a way to not only combat the city’s subzero winter temperatures, but to keep retailers from fleeing to suburban malls.
    Joe Barrett, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Inmates at the prison near St. Petersburg had to remain silent at all times, and spent up to 12 hours a day doing compulsory labor at the jail’s sawing workshop, even in subzero temperatures in winter, the women said.
    Anatoly Kurmanaev, New York Times, 10 June 2024
  • The warmer temperatures in Europe come after Arctic air blanketed the United States last month, bringing in subzero temperatures and a deadly blizzard that buried parts of the country.
    Isabella Kwai, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2023
  • First, the tiny robotic flyer had to survive subzero temperatures on its first night alone without Perseverance.
    Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Yet in the previous episode, everyone is pretty blasé about it; aside from a phone call to the hospital, Lund’s ability to survive after being out in subzero temperatures for several days is not even discussed.
    Jen Chaney, Vulture, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Bronson said that in the absence of a dedicated winter shelter, hundreds of unhoused people could be exposed to subzero temperatures this winter.
    Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 25 July 2023
  • Interviews with caucus veterans and campaign officials suggests DeSantis, who has staked much of his bid on a strong ground game in Iowa, may be best positioned to beat expectations in a subzero caucus night.
    TIME, 12 Jan. 2024
  • According to the latest forecast from the National Weather Service in Louisville, a wind chill advisory is in effect for both days as subzero values are expected both days and high temperatures are not expected to rise above the teens.
    Keisha Rowe, The Courier-Journal, 19 Jan. 2024
  • New ideas include a Golden Classics section and a section devoted to documentaries as well as an exploratory idea of an outdoor cinema with a sauna nearby for those who can’t bear the subzero temperatures.
    John Bleasdale, Variety, 18 Nov. 2023
  • Some of us have enough trouble packing for a weekend camping trip – imagine instead packing for three and a half months of remote living in subzero temperatures while maintaining important scientific equipment.
    Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2018
  • Federal lawmakers convened a special committee and an investigation was launched, as hundreds of volunteers searched for the victim in subzero temperatures, and state news media ran live updates on the fallout.
    Anatoly Kurmanaev, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Heat pump technology has steadily improved in recent years, with many models able to operate efficiently in subzero temperatures.
    Brad Plumer, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2023

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