hoarfrost

Example Sentences

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Today, it’s hard not to be smitten by the beauty of this place, the snow, the hoarfrost coating every limb on the willows that line the field, the stillness of land at rest.

From Washington Post

The 1959 watercolor shows the moon just edging above the horizon with the sky so cold that the stars seem to have frozen to the firmament like hoarfrost on a window.

From Washington Post

Stars illuminate the darkness as a thin coat of hoarfrost begins to form on the grass outside my window.

From The Guardian

I wonder if it’s hoarfrost on the ground.

From The New Yorker

Because if you two look at your reflection in a mirror, what you’ll see is a commitment in progress  —  a bond forming like hoarfrost that is variously permanent.

From The Verge