frost
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With grandma’s nest egg and mom and dad’s retirement tied up in a young couple’s first home, even a slight chill in property valuations causes an arctic frost on consumer sentiment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Unlike laboratory mice, which often require researchers to artificially trigger tumor growth, lemon frost geckos develop cancer naturally and at a relatively young age.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
It is cold little chaos, packaged in cardboard and frost.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026
Maybe I’ll still be kept warm by my summer odyssey come December, when frost whitens the lawn.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
There is no frost upon the windows of Marco’s flat, so he inscribes lines of symbols in the shape of a letter A with ink, pressing his darkened fingers against the panes.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
Wet earth, plenty of sunshine and a lack of frosts have combined to give some plants a noticeable head start.
From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2026
These low temperatures with widespread overnight frosts are expected to continue well into next week.
From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2026
There will be some overnight frosts and risk of ice where showers fall.
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2025
As the growing season progresses, the plant puffs itself into a roughly spherical shape, until the first frosts, when it snaps off its stalk and waits to be blown across the landscape.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
This painful ritual went on week after week, until “at last the frosts and storms of November came and threw a chilling barrier between the living and the dead, and we went there no more.”
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
Images show the large windows at the front facing onto the street and a window - perhaps with frosted glass - on the side where the motorhome was parked.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
He went to the toilet, which is when he saw a flicker of orange through the frosted glass of the window.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
“You couldn’t see the fine details, but you could see everything else,” said Denise Milano Sprung of the frosted bathroom door of the hotel room she shared with her husband at the Calgary Airport Marriott.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026
From the sweet nostalgia of frosted cupcakes to the comforting scent of vanilla cream, food-inspired fragrances have become a surprising obsession.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2025
His mother would rush and grab him and, with a foreign curse and a shaken fist at the frosted door, hurry him out of the torture chamber.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
“You can put your effort into glorifying your cake with frosting, dreaming up an exciting trim that puts your own label on it.”
From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2026
Every chocolate cake needs several ingredients for the batter, along with simple syrup to keep the layers moist, as well as frosting and sometimes decorations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026
Everything else is just frosting on the cake.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 30, 2026
“Big wasn’t a crush, he was a crash,” Carrie says to Miranda as she peels down the wrapper on a cupcake topped with bright pink buttercream frosting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2026
“I should have realized,” Jack said, shaking off the lingering effects of the frosting.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
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