How to Use freeze out in a Sentence

freeze out

verb
  • The Democrats have been frozen out, there is no input.
    — Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Unions that back the wrong horse in a primary can get frozen out.
    — Heather Merrick, Hartford Courant, 11 June 2026
  • Crespo told us that, yes indeed, he’s still frozen out of the caucus.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2026
  • He had been frozen out in Turin and Anfield has been a slow burn for him.
    — Phil Hay, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Speaking of options, is there anything Democrats could do if they’re frozen out of the runoff?
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Is Notre Dame frozen out from hosting a CFP game?
    — Pete Sampson, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Who and the songwriting duo behind all the classics — were completely frozen out and had to hopelessly watch from the sidelines.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 28 Feb. 2026
  • The move was a divisive one — and it has been used on both sides of the aisle in recent months, as lawmakers look to cement allies in seats and freeze out others.
    — Al Weaver, The Hill, 7 Mar. 2026
  • It’s caused millions of these young workers to be frozen out of new opportunities, and men are largely the ones being impacted.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2025
  • At 61/2, she was immediately branded a lesbian and frozen out.
    — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 17 June 2026
  • Another is speckle imaging, which uses sequences of extremely short exposures to freeze out that same motion.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 27 Nov. 2025
  • The job market has been sluggish, while high interest rates and a housing affordability crisis have saddled millions in debt and frozen out would-be homebuyers.
    — Trevor Bach, Dallas Morning News, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Years of soaring home prices, especially in the early part of this decade when rock-bottom mortgage rates fueled a buying frenzy, have left many would-be homebuyers frozen out of the market.
    — ABC News, 9 June 2026
  • Years of soaring home prices, especially in the early part of this decade when rock-bottom mortgage rates fueled a buying frenzy, have left many would-be homebuyers frozen out of the market.
    — Alex Veiga, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
  • Years of soaring home prices, especially in the early part of this decade when rock-bottom mortgage rates fueled a buying frenzy, have left many would-be homebuyers frozen out of the market.
    — Alex Veiga, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2026
  • Years of soaring home prices, especially in the early part of this decade when rock-bottom mortgage rates fueled a buying frenzy, have left many would-be homebuyers frozen out of the market.
    — ABC News, 24 June 2026
  • Years of soaring home prices, especially in the early part of this decade when rock-bottom mortgage rates fueled a buying frenzy, have left many would-be homebuyers frozen out of the market.
    — Alex Veiga, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2026
  • Outcast Axel Disasi, who was frozen out like Sterling, at least gets a chance to play senior football again on loan at West Ham.
    — Simon Johnson, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The World Economic Forum is facing calls to freeze out members of the Iranian regime from a summit in Davos this week.
    — Anders Hagstrom, FOXNews.com, 18 Jan. 2026
  • That’s been a point of friction between federal authorities and state investigators, who complain that they have been frozen out of those cases so far with no access to evidence.
    — Steve Karnowski, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2026
  • That is not the case under a strong-mayor system, where councilmembers are frozen out of operational decisions and responsibility.
    — Steven Falk, Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Howard says that Ream, who was frozen out of the setup until breaking back in ahead of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, is key to the squad’s culture.
    — Adam Crafton, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Europeans have been struggling for a seat at the negotiating table, largely frozen out of talks between Washington and the Kremlin.
    — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 21 Dec. 2025
  • That’s because the US planemaker could finally get a huge order from Chinese airlines, a market that the company has been frozen out for nearly a decade.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The 31-year-old midfielder, who joined for £30m from Southampton in August 2023, has been frozen out of the team by Nuno.
    — Roshane Thomas, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2025
  • This review is scheduled to be complete next year and has the potential to freeze out full-size pickups designed with no consideration for things like European pedestrian safety.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 8 Apr. 2026
  • There, scientists guess that lower temperatures are causing carbon dioxide to freeze out of the atmosphere, with the CO2 falling as dry-ice snow and pulling dust down with it.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 14 May 2026
  • Outcast Axel Disasi, who was frozen out like Sterling, at least gets a chance to play senior football again on loan at West Ham United, also until the summer.
    — James McNicholas, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
  • And businesses from Australian wine makers to Norwegian salmon farmers have been frozen out of the massive China market in recent years when their governments fell foul of Beijing.
    — Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 5 Feb. 2026
  • In the aftermath of 2020, Jones was stripped of a committee chairmanship and frozen out of Senate GOP leadership.
    — Shannon McCaffrey, AJC.com, 10 June 2026

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