hoar

Example Sentences

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But do you know your hoar frost from your rime?

From BBC

I shuffle past evergreens laden with snow and hardwoods glazed in hoar frost.

From Washington Post

“There’s a potential avalanche layer, for sure,” Stimberis says, noting a layer created by freezing rain and another by surface hoar, or, in laymen’s terms, a gnarly frost.

From Washington Times

I particularly like the way this photo captures the Sun burning through the mist, with the reed beds covered in white hoar frost and the mill shrouded in mist.

From BBC

I keep telling myself that any day now the clay soil will be rock-solid frozen, or at least the garden will be iced with a hoar frost.

From Washington Post