Froze
[frəʊz] or [froz]
Definition
(imp.) of Freeze
(-) imp. of Freeze.
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Examples
- My sweet little lady overwhelmed me with dismay; her air of native elegance froze my very marrow. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The suave aunt could not reconcile them; the daughters froze at the view of their quarrels. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- As I spoke he gave my wrist a convulsive grip; the smile on his lips froze: apparently a spasm caught his breath. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He did not speak or move, but the blotchy green of his countenance turned livid, and the froth froze upon his lips. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Till this moment I had listened with living joy--I had answered with gleeful quickness; a name froze me; three words struck me mute. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Mr. Nairne, in 1777, was the first to discover the affinity that sulphuric acid had for water vapor, and in 1810 Leslie froze water by this means. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- A faint shuffling sounded behind me, and as I cast a hasty glance over my shoulder my blood froze in my veins for the thing I saw there. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- They are beginning to pale, and she looks as if their coldness froze her. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- And then it laughed a weird and terrible laughter that froze the blood. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Something froze Birkin's heart, seeing them standing there in the isolation of the snow, growing smaller and more isolated. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The ground was frozen, and it froze our backs while we slept; the wind swept across our faces and froze our noses. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Simply because if ice sank to the bottoms of rivers, lakes, and oceans as fast as it froze, those places would be frozen up and there would be no water left. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I turned an apprehensive glance behind me, and the sight that I saw froze the new-born hope of freedom that had been springing up within me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
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