How to Use freeze out in a Sentence

freeze out

verb
  • No boasts and no blasts of ego to freeze out the moment.
    Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 17 May 2020
  • For that, he should be frozen out of his portion of pork.
    Charles Selle, Lake County News-Sun, 12 June 2019
  • But South Africa’s stance on the war has hardly frozen out the country.
    David McKenzie, CNN, 19 Feb. 2023
  • At the moment, Rogers said, older writers are frozen out of the game.
    Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2023
  • The others, sensing a mean girls vibe, freeze out the twosome.
    Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Like, talks about free speech and then freezes out journalists and stuff like that.
    CBS News, 17 Mar. 2024
  • Artists and concert halls that don’t want to play ball have reason to fear they’ll be frozen out.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 24 May 2024
  • That perimeter cuts through Texas, with Dallas and Houston on the inside and most of the state frozen out.
    Joseph Morton, Dallas News, 20 July 2023
  • Oregon State wasn’t surprised that Stanford froze out the Beavers from long range.
    oregonlive, 7 Mar. 2020
  • Last year, after launching the NFL protest movement, he was frozen out of the free-agent market.
    Andrew Lopez, NOLA.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • By the mid-1990s much of the continent was frozen out of the global financial system.
    The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
  • The midfielder was frozen out of the team, with Rafa Benitez failing to play him in any Premier League game.
    SI.com, 4 Feb. 2018
  • But Schumer can’t be frozen out, despite the hopes of some House conservatives.
    Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2017
  • This should help buyers frozen out of the market by rising mortgage rates.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The curtain was suddenly pulled back from Cuba, a nation frozen out by the Cold War.
    Azam Ahmed and Frances Robles, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2018
  • These salt deposits on the surface likely represent the remnants of a frozen ocean with the salt left over from brines as the ocean froze out.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 1 Nov. 2018
  • Democrats, feeling frozen out, complained of a dearth of public hearings.
    Kevin Diaz, Houston Chronicle, 7 Jan. 2018
  • Casual gamers, frozen out of the market months ago by soaring prices, are still slow to return.
    Sarah E. Needleman, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
  • For The Blob, a Sanders presidency could mean being frozen out of power.
    Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Lewis said he is concerned that WSU could be frozen out of future federal grants.
    Katherine Long, The Seattle Times, 21 Sep. 2017
  • At the same time, foreign counterparts are being frozen out.
    Nick Wadhams, Bloomberg.com, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Van Dijk was frozen out of first-team affairs at St Mary's, and made to train on his own after his attempts to force through a move fell through.
    SI.com, 17 Dec. 2017
  • Football Insider have now reported that Anita has been frozen out of the set-up and has been made to train away from the first-team squad.
    SI.com, 27 Aug. 2019
  • Shaw is known to be angry with the way he has been treated, but Mourinho insisted the full-back had not been frozen out.
    Mike Whalley, chicagotribune.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • They were completely frozen out of all plans and preparations.
    Lucy Wood, Marie Claire, 20 Aug. 2018
  • Even when he was frozen out of a White House job at the start of the administration, Bolton managed to gain access to the president.
    Greg Jaffe, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2018
  • Why are Kentucky milk farmers being frozen out of the local market?
    NBC News, 30 June 2018
  • The impending winter storm has frozen out the Milwaukee Brewers and their fans.
    Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024
  • They will be allowed to continue this practice, whereas the hobbyists are frozen out.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 31 July 2024
  • But the candidates’ approaches to—and reasoning for—freezing out China differ.
    Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019

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