hoar
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Bernadette Benz waited for a day with hoar frost before taking her picture called Frosted Silver Birch which won the Trees, Woods and Forests category.
From BBC • Feb. 2, 2023
After all, the Japanese poem style lends itself to spare reflections on nature, crystalline musings on blossoms, songbirds or hoar frost.
From Washington Post • Mar. 6, 2022
A two-foot layer of sticky, dense snow lay atop a few more feet of loose, grainy hoar.
From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2019
“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 • Jan. 28, 2017
This time they came from the Bible, through which she made desultory progress: gainsay, ravening, hoar.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
Vocabulary lists containing hoar
"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 2
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