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e began to figure it out on day eleven or twelve of the seven-day trip, the slate and obsidian waves rolling under our stern, the crispy hoarfrost of whitecap foam seeding in our beards, the wind spitting ice in our eyes.
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Mark Richard, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
Nearby, hoarfrost shimmered on hemlock branches, a bear cub peered out from a hole in the snow, and a sudden, terrifying silence echoed in the ears of the man’s ski partners.
—Caroline Van Hemert, Outside Online, 11 Aug. 2021
The hoarfrost in the subzero temperatures lifted a clean, white layer into the air that sparkled in the low sun.
—Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Dec. 2019
Mark Richard, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
Nearby, hoarfrost shimmered on hemlock branches, a bear cub peered out from a hole in the snow, and a sudden, terrifying silence echoed in the ears of the man’s ski partners.
—Caroline Van Hemert, Outside Online, 11 Aug. 2021
The hoarfrost in the subzero temperatures lifted a clean, white layer into the air that sparkled in the low sun.
—Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Dec. 2019
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“Hoarfrost.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hoarfrost. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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