How to Use deep-freeze in a Sentence

deep-freeze

1 of 2 verb
  • Using lasers, scientists can deep-freeze atoms down to a hair’s breadth above absolute zero.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Feb. 2021
  • Heavy, unstable liquids can also be stored without the massive financial and environmental costs of, for example, deep-freeze air freight.
    — Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 9 June 2026
  • This is the first time scientists have reached such a pure quantum state without having to chill the entire object to near absolute zero, opening doors to experiments once thought impossible outside of deep-freeze labs.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 9 Aug. 2025
  • Working at temperatures that would normally cripple lithium-ion cells, a team of Chinese researchers has built a new liquid-solid-state lithium battery that continues to deliver power in deep-freeze conditions.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Solid-state battery reliability in deep-freeze conditions The latest phase of testing shifts the focus to how the vehicles perform in sustained deep-freeze conditions, with particular attention on real-world usability.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 17 Jan. 2026

deep freeze

2 of 2 noun
  • This part of the world experienced a deep freeze for several thousand years.
  • Both events had plunged ties into a deep freeze.
    — Michael Kugelman, Time, 26 June 2026
  • Floods, droughts, deep freezes, and blizzards!
    — Teresa Woodard, Midwest Living, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Count on beauty to be a bright spot during a deep freeze.
    — Noor Lobad, Footwear News, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Over the past couple of years, the housing market has been stuck in a deep freeze.
    — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The Texas deep freeze is behind us, and a statewide warming has commenced.
    — Anthony Franze, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The 2021 deep freeze brought some of the coldest weather Texas had seen in decades.
    — Anthony Franze, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Jan. 2026
  • So will this incoming winter storm be a repeat of the 2021 deep freeze?
    — Anthony Franze, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Logan O’Hoppe started last season on a hot streak and then went into a four-month deep freeze.
    — Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 23 Mar. 2026
  • While Chicago is thawing from this winter's deep freeze, spring is in the air out in Arizona.
    — Matt Zahn, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2026
  • A weeks-long cold snap in January and February plunged the city into a deep freeze.
    — Matthew Villafane, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Winter’s deep freeze is settling over much of the US, bringing dangerous wind chills.
    — CNN Money, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Chicago might have already hit its first deep freeze, but the local classical music scene pulses with life this season.
    — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Snow can protect plants and soils from deep freezes and affect wildlife migration, hibernation and survival.
    — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Winter Storm Fern brought record snowfall to Oklahoma City and left the state in a deep freeze.
    — Brandy McDonnell, Oklahoman, 25 Jan. 2026
  • The researchers don't anticipate a significant die-off, even after a blizzard and deep freeze.
    — Elle McLogan, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The Philadelphia region has experienced quite a dose of winter weather over the last few weeks — from sleet to snow to a deep freeze.
    — Nikki Dementri, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The culprit is actually a weather phenomenon caused by our recent deep freeze.
    — Ahmad Bajjey, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The story set in Minnesota and shot in Finland, was a first for Thompson who totes a gun while braving a deep freeze.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Azaleas usually weather the South's mild frosts without problem, but many evergreen azaleas don't like a deep freeze.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 30 Oct. 2025
  • While some of us are accustomed to dealing with deep freezes, many Southerners don't have to worry about the pipes during an average winter.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The extended deep freeze has left some people increasingly desperate in a region unaccustomed to and ill-equipped for such cold.
    — Sophie Bates, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2026
  • But the deal would also expose the company to more hurricanes, tropical storms and deep freezes across the eastern US.
    — Lauren Rosenthal, Bloomberg, 26 May 2026
  • If it’s exposed to a rapid, deep freeze, that sap expands, creating immense internal pressure, until the tree’s bark splits open with a violent crack.
    — Owen Clarke, Outside, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Read the Story US airlines are still paring back flights as a deep freeze hampers the restart of operations at some major hubs.
    — Jordan Erb, Bloomberg, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Southern California homebuying started 2026 in the fourth year of a deep freeze.
    — Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 18 Mar. 2026
  • After weeks of being in a deep freeze, Southeast Michigan can finally expect temperatures to warm up.
    — Karen Carter, CBS News, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The annual event was canceled only one time — in 2021 when a deep freeze forced numerous cancellations citywide.
    — Melissa Renteria, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Feb. 2026
  • This would have catastrophic global consequences, pushing parts of the world into a deep freeze, heating up others, disrupting monsoon seasons and raising sea levels.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2025
  • But a deep freeze during Florida’s peak tomato season, combined with wet weather during Mexico’s tomato growing season, has shrunk the crop size this year.
    — Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN Money, 17 Apr. 2026

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