How to Use unfrozen in a Sentence

unfrozen

adjective
  • But salts in the permafrost can lick the edges of the ice and form unfrozen bits.
    — Madeline Ostrander, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 May 2020
  • Some glaciers are frozen to the ground beneath them, while glaciers on unfrozen ground can slide along.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 27 Jan. 2018
  • The second round of grants has now been unfrozen, several awardees said.
    — Brad Plumer, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Researchers are getting whiplash as grant dollars are frozen and unfrozen.
    — Hannah Allam, ProPublica, 20 Mar. 2025
  • On and on, until finally the phone rings and time, unfrozen at last, moves forward.
    — Chris Heath, GQ, 12 Dec. 2017
  • What about the people who use our complaints to get their loans straightened out or their bank accounts unfrozen?
    — Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Also, because some open water still remains unfrozen, a few ducks, geese and swans have yet to leave.
    — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Dec. 2020
  • Make sure outdoor animals have a warm and dry shelter, food, and unfrozen water.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Frozen fruits and vegetables can be just as nutritious as the unfrozen stuff on store shelves, Lobb said.
    — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Make sure outdoor animals have a warm, dry shelter, food, and unfrozen water.
    — Star-Telegram Weather Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Haddad said those funds could be unfrozen if a deal to offset revenue losses from the tax exemptions is reached.
    — Lisandra Paraguassu, Reuters, 18 July 2024
  • Shea denied Williams’ request that the inmate account be unfrozen.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Yet surprisingly, many of these worlds could also support large unfrozen pockets of land.
    — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Before reaching the strait, some of the polar waters freeze, causing more salt to mix into the unfrozen water.
    — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Storage Fresh, unfrozen butter should be consumed within a month of purchase.
    — Lucinda Scala Quinn, Washington Post, 21 June 2019
  • The Great Lakes are the world's largest unfrozen surface freshwater system.
    — Rebecca Coffey, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
  • As the air passes over unfrozen waters, warmth and moisture move into the lowest portion of the atmosphere.
    — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 21 Nov. 2024
  • American dippers, roundish birds that feed underwater year-round, live near many hot springs and the unfrozen creeks the warm water enables.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Apr. 2018
  • Next, the team took unfrozen samples of each of the four types of intestines and conducted several experiments.
    — Grace Huckins, Wired, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Later this month, that grace period expires and the unfrozen British sausage may no longer travel across the Irish Sea.
    — Max Colchester, WSJ, 13 June 2021
  • As for access to food, that will come down to water sources staying unfrozen and the area having enough warm days to get plant buds and insects to emerge in time to stave off starvation.
    — Rose Davidson, National Geographic, 19 Feb. 2016
  • Outdoor soil needs to be unfrozen, so do the test as weather permits up to a couple of weeks prior to outdoor planting (March or later).
    — Betty Cahill, The Denver Post, 6 Jan. 2017
  • Cold air coming from Canada, across the unfrozen Lake Erie, will drop temperatures.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 25 Feb. 2020
  • There is no need to contact the NCRA at the end of the unfrozen period to refreeze your credit file.
    — Yec, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Earlier this month, just outside the Sno hangar, the thick Scandinavian forests were a lush green and a nearby lake was unfrozen.
    — Time, 17 Feb. 2020
  • The crisis only stopped when Iran agreed to release the hostages in exchange for Iranian assets being unfrozen.
    — Luke McGee, CNN, 8 Jan. 2020
  • Large areas have already come unfrozen, in Western Canada, in Alaska, in Siberia.
    — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2024
  • Thanks to record warmth, more of the Arctic’s sea surface remained unfrozen this past winter than ever before in the era of satellite monitoring.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 8 July 2016
  • In the coming year, 25 of those positions will be unfrozen, including nine in the police department and six in the fire department.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun-Sentinel.com, 27 Sep. 2017
  • As the bottom of the bubble cooled and solidified, ice crystals also formed a boundary between the frozen and unfrozen part of the bubble — a freeze front — that inched up the surface.
    — Knvul Sheikh, New York Times, 18 June 2019

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