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
  • Here’s a primer on the signs of a deep freeze ahead, and what to do about it.
    — Amy Norton, SELF, 29 Jan. 2025
  • The weekend should be warmer than the deep freeze that was this past week.
    — Houston Chronicle, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Count on beauty to be a bright spot during a deep freeze.
    — Noor Lobad, Footwear News, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Faced with a deep freeze, the flowers simply curl up and ride out the cold snap.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 11 Mar. 2022
  • But there are signs that the deep freeze for superheroes is thawing.
    — Jake Coyle, chicagotribune.com, 28 Feb. 2018
  • But there are signs that the deep freeze for superheroes is thawing.
    — Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Excess moisture or deep freeze can cause the wax to wear off more quickly.
    — Anthony Marcusa, chicagotribune.com, 10 Oct. 2020
  • Over the past couple of years, the housing market has been stuck in a deep freeze.
    — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2025
  • But then, this was the winter that never was, the deep freeze that never came.
    — Sara B. Franklin, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • After this, will the state be willing to pay the bill to keep the lights on in the next deep freeze?
    — Drew Kann, CNN, 20 Feb. 2021
  • Some open blooms were lost to the deep freeze, but the buds survived without damage.
    — Nancy Brachey, charlotteobserver, 12 Feb. 2018
  • The mother plant was 15 feet tall and 5 feet wide, but last years deep freeze froze it back.
    — Janet Carson, Arkansas Online, 29 Nov. 2021
  • Once in power, Biden put ties with the Saudis in deep freeze.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 15 June 2022
  • The Texas deep freeze is behind us, and a statewide warming has commenced.
    — Anthony Franze, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Warm air has arrived to break up the deep freeze, and overnight lows will remain in the high 30s.
    — oregonlive, 24 Dec. 2022
  • The ultralow chain, the deep freeze, is the one at –70 degrees C.
    — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 19 Nov. 2020
  • After ringing in the new year in shorts and flip-flops, those same people are in the deep freeze today.
    — Jennifer Gray, CNN, 3 Jan. 2022
  • When last month’s deep freeze settled over Texas, Stokes was at his house north of Austin.
    — Eric Dexheimer, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Planet Earth used to be something like a cross between a deep freeze and a car crusher.
    — Chris Baraniuk, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Wind farms, on the other hand, appear to have functioned without a problem in the deep freeze.
    — John Funk, cleveland.com, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Some Texans had gone days without power, and dozens died as a result of the deep freeze.
    — James Barragán, Dallas News, 16 Mar. 2021
  • In the aftermath of the recent deep freeze, farms across the state are seeing damages in peach trees.
    — Ashley Soebroto, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The Arctic’s potential has always been there; it has just been locked in a deep freeze.
    — Mark Sappenfield, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 May 2018
  • Always there’s noise — the creak of the shifting glacier, the push of the steady wind, the crack of trees snapping in the deep freeze.
    — Laura Manske, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Thanks to the deep freeze of a glacier, those tools were found intact alongside his corpse in 1993.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 2 July 2019
  • Greenland holds 10 percent of the world's freshwater in a deep freeze.
    — Adam Popescu, National Geographic, 25 Mar. 2019
  • In the wake of the snow showers and snow squalls, arctic air has left the region in a deep freeze Thursday.
    — Fox News, 19 Dec. 2019

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