cold storage

Example Sentences

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Whole cabbage is a cold storage crop, meaning that any head you buy at the grocery store was probably harvested weeks, if not months, earlier.

From Washington Post

Saul was fenced in by a Mexican drug cartel, and later by Walter White; Hutch was socially and psychologically shoved into cold storage somewhere in suburbia.

From Salon

"We use a lot electricity for our cold storage to be able to provide food throughout the winter," he explained.

From BBC

The blaze was reported at 6:30am at a cold storage building in downtown Puyallup that reportedly contains 1,000 pounds of anhydrous ammonia, according to a post from Central Pierce Fire & Rescue.

From Seattle Times

Authorities decided that inoculating at sea would not be feasible due to limited emergency responses and cold storage requirements for some vaccines, the defence ministry said.

From Reuters