big freeze

Example Sentences

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Despite the big freeze in January, which prompted a record weekly drawdown of domestic gas stockpiles, inventories ended February within 3% of the five-year average.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 8, 2026

The big freeze, which covered nearly all the globe in two phases for 80 million years, is known as "Snowball Earth", after which the first animal life emerged.

From BBC • Aug. 15, 2024

Evidence for the big freeze is found in sediments in the seabed off the coast of Lisbon, Portugal.

From BBC • Aug. 10, 2023

I couldn’t look at it during the big freeze.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 22, 2023

She gave me the big freeze when I said hello that day, though.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger