freeze up
Example Sentences
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But as temperatures have hit -20C on the front, both the equipment and men operating the devices freeze up.
From Barron's ● Feb. 16, 2026
Arthur Julian, a writer on “F Troop,” noted that “real audiences sound phonier than the laugh track. Sometimes they freeze up and act unnatural.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
We freeze up because we’re afraid of the wrong choice.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2025
But the service was unreliable — access would frequently drop or freeze up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
It was so cold that if you were stupid enough to go outside your eyes would automatically blink a thousand times all by themselves, probably so the juice inside of them wouldn’t freeze up.
From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis
