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Recent Examples of frostwork
Wind Cave National Park features delicate boxwork along its ceilings, along with frostwork and cave popcorn.
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Simon Peter Groebner, Star Tribune, 23 July 2021
Simon Peter Groebner, Star Tribune, 23 July 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for frostwork
Noun
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As a rule of thumb, wait until late spring to sow warm-season grass seed, after the threat of frost has passed and soil temperatures are consistently above 65°F.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
14 Mar. 2025
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Both 2017 and 2016 were considered very good, with 2017 marked by a short harvest due to early frost and 2016 noted for a hot, dry summer.—
Jeremy Repanich,
Robb Report,
10 Mar. 2025
Noun
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In temperatures below freezing, fog can actually deposit ice onto objects at or near the ground, called rime ice.—
Ross Lazear,
The Conversation,
3 Mar. 2025
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Waddington is notorious for its fickle weather—the peak is regularly hit by storms off the Pacific Ocean that freeze the summit in rime ice.—
Corbin Reiff,
Outside Online,
22 Oct. 2024
Noun
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But sometimes the crystals grow particularly large, forming hoar frost.—
Tom Yulsman,
Discover Magazine,
24 Jan. 2014
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The hoar frost made the trees sparkle as though Earthquake Park were contained in a snow globe.—
Alli Harvey,
Anchorage Daily News,
16 Jan. 2022
Noun
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From a reading delivered in November in Richmond, Virginia. e began to figure it out on day eleven or twelve of the seven-day trip, the slate and obsidian waves rolling under our stern, the crispy hoarfrost of whitecap foam seeding in our beards, the wind spitting ice in our eyes.—
Mark Richard,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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Nearby, hoarfrost shimmered on hemlock branches, a bear cub peered out from a hole in the snow, and a sudden, terrifying silence echoed in the ears of the man’s ski partners.—
Caroline Van Hemert,
Outside Online,
11 Aug. 2021
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“Frostwork.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/frostwork. Accessed 17 Mar. 2025.
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