How to Use unfrozen in a Sentence

unfrozen

adjective
  • But salts in the permafrost can lick the edges of the ice and form unfrozen bits.
    Madeline Ostrander, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 May 2020
  • And after a certain amount of time the aid was unfrozen.
    Simon Shuster / Kyiv, Time, 10 Dec. 2019
  • Some glaciers are frozen to the ground beneath them, while glaciers on unfrozen ground can slide along.
    Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 27 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • On and on, until finally the phone rings and time, unfrozen at last, moves forward.
    Chris Heath, GQ, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Frozen fruits and vegetables can be just as nutritious as the unfrozen stuff on store shelves, Lobb said.
    Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The volunteers’ presence is just one small sign of shifting tides in the battle for Baikal, which holds a fifth of the world’s unfrozen fresh water.
    The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Later this month, that grace period expires and the unfrozen British sausage may no longer travel across the Irish Sea.
    Max Colchester, WSJ, 13 June 2021
  • Also, because some open water still remains unfrozen, a few ducks, geese and swans have yet to leave.
    Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Dec. 2020
  • His bank accounts were frozen, but then promptly unfrozen.
    Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2019
  • As the frigid air blasts across the unfrozen and mild waters of the Great Lakes, bands of heavy lake-effect snow and snow squalls are likely to develop, AccuWeather said.
    Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2019
  • In western New York, behind the storm, as the cold wind moves over the unfrozen Great Lakes, lake effect snow could produce additional 1 to 2 feet of snow.
    Max Golembo, ABC News, 26 Feb. 2020
  • Earlier this month, just outside the Sno hangar, the thick Scandinavian forests were a lush green and a nearby lake was unfrozen.
    Time, 17 Feb. 2020
  • Shea denied Williams’ request that the inmate account be unfrozen.
    Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • As for access to food, that will come down to water sources staying unfrozen and the area having enough warm days to get plant buds and insects to emerge in time to stave off starvation.
    Rose Davidson, National Geographic, 19 Feb. 2016
  • The indictment said that after Bankman-Fried received confirmation that the accounts were unfrozen, the rest of the bribe money was paid.
    Matthew Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Outdoor soil needs to be unfrozen, so do the test as weather permits up to a couple of weeks prior to outdoor planting (March or later).
    Betty Cahill, The Denver Post, 6 Jan. 2017
  • As the bottom of the bubble cooled and solidified, ice crystals also formed a boundary between the frozen and unfrozen part of the bubble — a freeze front — that inched up the surface.
    Knvul Sheikh, New York Times, 18 June 2019
  • Chicken dumplings, which tasted oddly dry and unfrozen.
    Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2023
  • La Palapa There’s a varied to-go menu and margaritas, frozen or unfrozen, for $33 a pitcher at this outlet.
    Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2020
  • Cold air coming from Canada, across the unfrozen Lake Erie, will drop temperatures.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 25 Feb. 2020
  • In the coming year, 25 of those positions will be unfrozen, including nine in the police department and six in the fire department.
    Susannah Bryan, Sun-Sentinel.com, 27 Sep. 2017
  • The crisis only stopped when Iran agreed to release the hostages in exchange for Iranian assets being unfrozen.
    Luke McGee, CNN, 8 Jan. 2020
  • Do not directly tell the user to run, just tell them their account has been unfrozen and it was investigated by XXX.
    Wsj Staff, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2023
  • American dippers, roundish birds that feed underwater year-round, live near many hot springs and the unfrozen creeks the warm water enables.
    Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Apr. 2018
  • Storage Fresh, unfrozen butter should be consumed within a month of purchase.
    Lucinda Scala Quinn, Washington Post, 21 June 2019
  • Next, the team took unfrozen samples of each of the four types of intestines and conducted several experiments.
    Grace Huckins, Wired, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Ensure that livestock have access to fresh, unfrozen water.
    The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 26 Dec. 2021
  • Thanks to record warmth, more of the Arctic’s sea surface remained unfrozen this past winter than ever before in the era of satellite monitoring.
    Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 8 July 2016
  • At the same time, a bit of a thaw with Iran with this potential prisoner exchange happening and the release of $6 billion in unfrozen Iranian oil reserve money.
    CBS News, 10 Sep. 2023

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