How to Use unfreeze in a Sentence

unfreeze

verb
  • The warm weather unfroze the lake.
  • He helped me to unfreeze my computer.
  • We can't wait until the ground unfreezes so we can start gardening.
  • I had to wait for my computer to unfreeze before I could read my e-mail.
  • The Justice Department agreed to unfreeze the company's assets.
  • For them, this means that future frozen rates will unfreeze, drop and then freeze again.
    — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The deal calls for Iran’s assets to be unfrozen.
    — Kareem Chehayeb, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2026
  • That’s low enough to unfreeze trade but high enough to still cause price increases.
    — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 15 May 2025
  • Trump froze funds to Maine, but a federal judge ruled that the funds had to be unfrozen.
    — Ryan Morik Outkick, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026
  • The money had somehow gotten stuck, and the only way to unfreeze it was to send more.
    — David Yaffe-Bellany, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
  • If the agreement with the four colleges is approved, the new city spending will unfreeze.
    — Steph MacHado, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The deal calls for billions of dollars of Iran’s assets to be unfrozen.
    — Kareem Chehayeb, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2026
  • The deal calls for billions of dollars of Iran's assets to be unfrozen.
    — Arkansas Online, 21 June 2026
  • Part of that is because most women who freeze their eggs still never unfreeze them, still never use them.
    — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 7 Feb. 2022
  • The connection is fuzzy, the sound cuts out and the sonogram circles freeze and unfreeze black and white.
    — Joseph Horton, Time, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Frozen European funds will be unfrozen.
    — Mariam Khan, ABC News, 20 Nov. 2025
  • Frozen European funds will be unfrozen.
    — Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Consumers would be able to have their credit frozen or unfrozen within one hour of putting in the request via phone or email.
    — NBC News, 13 Apr. 2018
  • First-time homebuyers would get a fat tax credit in a move to unfreeze the tight housing market.
    — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 11 Mar. 2024
  • With a freeze, that means unfreezing the account and then refreezing it once the credit check is done.
    — Herb Weisbaum, NBC News, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Going forward, consumers would not have to pay anything to freeze or unfreeze their credit.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 23 May 2018
  • And, to temporarily unfreeze it, there's another fee to pay in all but eight states.
    — Christy Bieber, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Before our hero can so much as unfreeze a steak, Drasa is writing him messages to be read by rifle scope.
    — Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Credit reporting companies now must let consumers freeze and unfreeze their files for free.
    — Jim Puzzanghera, latimes.com, 24 May 2018
  • And this group of 15 actors would freeze and unfreeze at the same time without anybody saying anything.
    — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The board didn’t unfreeze that position until earlier this month.
    — Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Credit reporting companies would be required to let consumers freeze and unfreeze their files for free.
    — Jim Puzzanghera, latimes.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • The agreement would unfreeze some Iranian assets that are held in banks outside Iran.
    — Kevin Liptak, CNN Money, 23 May 2026
  • In the lead-up to last week’s sales, some of the same executives gamely suggested that the supply pipeline had unfrozen.
    — Tim F. Schneider, New York Times, 19 May 2025
  • The solution---at least for human tissue---is to freeze and unfreeze the organ fast enough to keep ice from collecting on the surface.
    — Neel Patel, Wired News, 5 June 2015

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