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Sentence Examples The hills were awash with frost and snow and yet nobody dared wear anything but the clan tartan. Transport in closed wagons was only permitted on 22 November 1941, at which point there had been permanent frost for over three weeks. The corms of these African natives, which the Dutch sometimes call Abyssinian gladioli, should be planted after the last threat of frost is gone. When using terracotta pots in a water feature, you can take steps to prevent frost from cracking them. The thin panes of glass were thick with frost, which enhanced the atmosphere as if we viewed the world through waxed paper. A hard frost is forecast tonight, while more snow and sleet is on the way tomorrow and Friday. Carefully rake leaves away from clumps of snowdrops and aconites, replanting any that have been lifted by frost. Catterick race meeting on Saturday, the biggest of the National Hunt season at the course, is under threat from frost and flooding. Therefore the area of the roadway in question had been subject to the detrimental effects of frost action. But it provided a footprint for new foundations a concrete raft with built-in frost apron over a channel for cables and pipelines. Moving the soil surface with a rake in winter will expose many slugs and their eggs to frost damage. Inland the ground rises quickly, to two ranges of high mountains, where there is much winter frost and snow. If grown on a window ledge, it may be necessary to bring the plants into the room at night when there is frost. It covers the windshield keeping off ice, frost and snow sparing you from scraping your windows clean. In Scottish winters, while the rest of the country yearns for sun, the keepers on grouse moors pray for a deep, deep frost. Schizanthus can be planted when you plant your agapanthus, after all danger of frost is past. It's beyond my ken, but for those in the know there's an accompanying set of statistics, ranging from water absorption rates to frost resistance. The flower season is coming to an end but with some luck it could last another few weeks if frost holds off. It was one of those cold wintry days of the month of January that sent chills of frost through the air. I don't think we've had a real frost yet, though we've lagged delicate things such as the tree fern in readiness for the sere times to come. Show More Sentences The surface should be level, free draining and, if possible, subject to frost prevention. Suited to all zones, lavatera flowers from mid-July till hard frost in moist, fertile soil. Sow annual flowers such as asters, cosmos, zinnias and marigolds as soon as the frost has passed and the air begins to warm up. Start and end the gardening season with cold-hardy vegetables that tolerate frost, such as peas, lettuce, cole crops, beets, and chard. Compounded by frost damage in following years, some farmers had resigned themselves to not planting a crop because of the bleak conditions. It would take an extremely hard frost to kill back the branches to any extent, though the leaf buds would be more easily damaged. You can camouflage the bulb foliage by carefully planting summer annuals around the bulbs once all danger of frost is past. The trees were rimed with frost and there was a stillness over the land that only came with extreme cold. They were curled up on the bare, frozen earth, rimed in frost, shivering and gasping in obvious anguish. If an unexpected frost occurs, undamaged fruits can be salvaged and ripened. The three men watched as the first flecks of frost began to appear on the still figure. Saturday and Sunday looks like being drier at the moment with the chance of a light frost overnight. But, so far as we could discover, the land was riverless, and eternal frost prevailed. They begin beneath the roadbed where subsurface water meets the advancing frost line and forms a layer of ice, called a lens. In 1740 during an intense frost, birds fell to the ground frozen in flight and rock-hard bread was inedible. Unlike wood, however, it is completely unaffected by damp, rot, decay, frost or insect attack. After being made redundant, she slept rough for a few nights in a derelict building and was unlucky enough to be caught in a heavy frost. Before frost arrives, bring tender herbs indoors to the window or light garden you've prepared. As tender perennials are damaged by frost, remove them and pop in fall-blooming asters, chrysanthemums, and pansies. They can solve the problem of early frost by cultivating asparagus peas in containers and moving them inside to a greenhouse or sunny bay window to complete maturation. Show More Sentences He could recite reams of frost, Dickinson, Whitman, and Lowell, and he did so while I stood there, amazed. But the Brandsby trainer withdrew him from that contest after inspecting the Chepstow course and expressing concerns that all the frost had not come out of the ground. I can feel it in my bones that we're going to get some hard frost. With the first hard frost of Autumn, all spore production stops and the artist's fungus becomes dormant until the establishment of a new spore tube layer the following spring. Droughts, floods, or early frost may have caused some or all of the introduced cultigens to fail but may have resulted in bumper yields of the more weedy native species. The temperature is well below zero, puddles of water are frozen, and a white frost has formed over the graffiti painted on the ancient bus parked by the roadside. The few non-woody species include little bluestem, wintergreen, Virginia tephrosia, wild indigo, tall oatgrass, cowwheat, low frost weed, turkey beard, and bracken fern. Infection with mycotoxins is most common on grains damaged by insects, birds, mites, hail, early frost, heat and drought stress, windstorms, and other unfavorable weather. In areas prone to frost heave or with poor drainage, additional drainage material such as drain rock can be placed below the footings to reduce water retention in the soil. The Madonna Lily, when it is immune from disease, to which it is very prone, has a vigorous constitution, being so hardy that frost does not injure it. Fountain plant, Russelia equisetiformis, is an easy perennial with arching, slender, rushlike branches and an abundance of orange-red tubular blooms spring to frost. This day we had frost, and the zinnias, dahlias, and blue ageratum died. Sow frost-tender annuals, such as sunflowers. zinnias and cosmos, when all danger of frost is past, night temperatures are in the 50s and days are warm. We also noted at the time of our inspection that there is considerable frost damage to the brickwork and that the metal restraining straps are rusting. You'd put a scarf across your nose and mouth and when you breathed through it, it would get all white with frost. And in five subsequent rides, frost stayed on the bull twice more, and Red Rock threw him three times. Snow is uncommon at the coast in the north, but happens more often in the south, and frost is usually not very intense. Its low water absorption makes it very resistant to frost damage and breakage due to freezing. Summers are usually mild, with moderate rainfall, while winters are chilly, cloudy with occasional snow and frost. Spring and autumn are cool but snow and frost are not unheard of in either season. Show More Sentences In areas subject to freezing and thawing, frost heaving can damage a pavement and create openings for water to enter. These stacks are vulnerable to frost action and often collapse leaving trails of blocks down the slopes called clitter or clatter. To avoid this, rake the soil around affected trees in winter so exposed sawflies are killed by frost. In our Solar System the frost line lies between Mars and Jupiter at about five astronomical units from the Sun. Some years have almost no snow in winter, and only a few days of hard frost. The shales are friable and easily attacked by frost and form areas that are vulnerable to landslides, as on Mam Tor. The boulder field is thought to have been caused in part by weathering, such as frost action. On average, through the winter months of December to March, there are 67 days during which ground frost occurs. Surface seeds commonly never germinate at all or germinate prematurely, only to be killed by frost. Each autumn, all exposed surfaces were covered and lagged against frost damage. This type of cider is made from apples with a particularly high level of sugar caused by natural frost. It seems to me that its place in South Africa is along the subtropical coast, or in the mistbelts where frost is usually absent. McAdam directed that no substance that would absorb water and affect the road by frost should be incorporated into the road. It must be understood that while the nelumbiums are hardy, they are so only as long as the tubers are out of the reach of frost. After the first heavy frost, when acorns were falling, I took a friend into partnership and went nesting. This strategy is not without risks, as the flowers can be damaged by frost or, in dry season regions, result in water stress on the plant. It may also be deposited directly by water vapor, as happens in the formation of frost. There has never been a frost, snowfall or freeze ever recorded at sea level on any of the islands. The plant may be propagated either by seed after the last frost, or by division after flowering. Subtropical climates are often characterized by warm to hot summers and cool to mild winters with infrequent frost. Show More Sentences Because of shelter from Dartmoor, Exeter is more frost prone than areas to the southwest, such as Plymouth. Thanks to its coastal position, sunshine levels are high relative to the rest of Britain, and severe frost unusual. Indeterminate varieties develop into vines that never top off and continue producing until killed by frost. He theorized on the causes of clouds, mist, wind, and rain as well as frost, hail, lightning, and rainbows. These plants should bloom until the first frost of the season. After the frost came, I dug up the mangels and let them harden for a few days before storing them like potatoes in the cellar. The Double Delights Wedding Gown Hydrangea is earlier to bloom than other Hydrangeas and will reflower until frost. Q Our loft is well insulated but there is terrible condensation on the sarking boards which has turned to frost. Ahead, a cool breeze swept the pale morning sun across a grassy meadow turned amber by morning's frost. So we all stuck our feet into cow-pats, and after walking over the frost it was bosker and warm sure enough. This morning was a brisk fall day. It wasn't cold enough for frost, but you wanted to keep moving. Outside, frost glimmered. November, cold as a witch's kiss. Cold as his heart. It was seventy-five below zero. Since the freezing-point is thirty-two above zero, it meant that one hundred and seven degrees of frost obtained. It was one of those moments of intense feeling when the frost of the Scottish people melts like a snow-wreath. The uninsulated water pipes must be installed below the frost line to prevent them from freezing. Due to the thin layer of snow on the ground the frost line has penetrated unusually deep this year. Hardy evergreens such as pyracantha, privet, laurel, yew, leyland cypress and western red cedar are fine, but be prepared to cover with fleece if severe frost occurs. Along the fencerows and in the woods, foliage of garlic mustard, sweet rocket, sedum, leafcup, henbit, hepatica and wild ginger hold on against the frost. It was January and the frost fell like angel dust on the hospital car park as, with Holly in intensive care and mum resting, at 4am I called relatives with the good news. Most often consisting of a budset pluck, a frost tea has the clarity and freshness of a white tea, with the richness and lingering finish of a finely crafted black tea. Show More Sentences A THE red Abyssinian banana will withstand a modicum of frost. Their breath froze in the air as it left their mouths, spouting forth in spumes of vapour that settled upon the hair of their bodies and formed into crystals of frost. He hurried up the back stairs with the hot water, scooping up a fingernailful of frost off the window in the back hall where there wasn't any register. Introducing the alum-cell, and placing the coating of hoar-frost at the intensely luminous focus of the electric lamp, not a spicula of the dazzling frost is melted. For example, frost is used sometimes to indicate ice which forms on the ground during cold nights, but other times to indicate air temperature below freezing point. Despite it being on the same latitude as Labrador on the opposite side of the Atlantic Ocean, snow and frost are rare, and if they occur, short lived. The coldest months are from November to January, with frost not uncommon. The first frost in Teignmouth usually occurs in late November or early December, whereas midland areas of England sometimes have frosts as early as September. Owing to its proximity to the sea, Teignmouth has warmer winters with less frost and snow, as well as slightly cooler summers compared with inland areas of southern England. The Met Office station publishes only temperature and frost averages. Many nursery managers were long reluctant to apply nitrogenous fertilizers late in the growing season, for fear of increased danger of frost damage to succulent tissues. On the south and west facing slopes of Cross Fell the rock faces have been broken up by frost action to give a scree slope made up of large boulders. Typically, just short of 60 nights a year will experience an air frost. There has never been a frost or freeze on record in Bermuda. It falls as snowflakes and hail or occurs as frost, icicles or ice spikes. These average last and first frost dates have reportedly been occurring earlier and later, respectively, at a steady rate, as observed over the last 30 years. Patterned grounds like these become smaller and smaller with the increasing absolute altitude, because the sorting depth in the frost debris is getting smaller. Examples from Classical Literature Windbreaks as often favor the frost as the vine, and smudging or heating the vineyards is too expensive to be practical. The disking is usually done in the spring and while the frost is out for only a short distance below the surface. I have built a douche, and am to go on through all the winter, frost or no frost. I had to keep my sense of humor under cover, just as you have to blanket garden-geraniums before the threat of a black frost. The fruit of the black haw, or stag-bush, is not edible until after frost has touched it. There was a crisp, white frost on the grass, but the middle of the road was not at all slippy. Elman's words fell on her 233 enthusiasm as frost falls on a tree in bloom. A heavy frost developed that night and the troops almost froze in the boxcars. Why engirdle its waist in warmth and cordage, and expose its feet to every storm and frost, to mud and snow? The laws of gravitation, the erosive powers of water, the effects of frost, are just the same at wholesale as they are at retail. There really is no need of artificial heat, for the auricula is a mountaineer, and can endure both frost and snow. The road was a perfect glare of ice, and everything above ground was literally plated with sleeted frost. With the first frost Judith closed her house at braeburn and returned to the city. His great body, shining like blue satin with a silver frost upon it, gave and lifted with every step. The acetous acid is concentrated by frost, which does not affect the proper acid, but only the water with which it is united. We had a smart frost during the night, which was curiously illuminated with the southern lights. I had only saw it when the frost and the bullfrog were heaving out of the ground. There was frost on the grass that morning, a foretaste of winter in the sharp wind. In December and after that month they rest, for from that time the frost, ice and snow cover the ground. The butternut too often blooms so early that its blossoms are caught by frost. Show More Sentences When frost comes on, the boxes are protected by any kind of litter and haulm. In the midst of the marsh were rows of the fruit-stems of the sensitive fern, which is the first to blacken before the frost. The campanile of the ancient Mission of San Juan seemed as fine as frost work. The very worst time for the bactrian camel is the beginning and end of winter, when frost and thaw occur alternately. Because generally there is a periodical frost in the month of May, and it is coldest from the 11th to the 13th. It is a moral frost which no physical warmth or comfortableness could counteract. Yonder are some but budding, as if yet the frost lay on the honey-dew that protects the beamy germs. The baffled frost, denied entrance, blew its angry, congealing breath inch-thick upon the blurred window panes. That is why we feel that expensive arctic feasts would probably be a frost. A black frost had set in, and one walking on the glen road could imagine that through the cracks in it he saw a loch glistening. When the woman that a man loves laughs at his moral enthusiasms, it is like a black frost on the delicate tips of budding trees. Now, then, the house's attention continued, but the expression of interest in the faces turned to a sort of black frost. At length the frost and snow really did come, and the Chickadees were in a woeful case. The tents that had whitened the plain were gone like a frost before the sun. Now is the time to protect the curds of cauliflowers you've grown before they become damaged by frost. But their flavour is no great improvement over that of the frost grape. Behind them, at the gee-pole, came Daylight, hidden to the knees by the swirling frost through which he appeared to wade. It looks as like a black frost as anything I ever saw in my life. A bright fire was glowing in the old-fashioned Waterloo stove and blue-white frost crystals were shining on the windowpanes. The standing bush keeps frost off the braird, which could not look better. Show More Sentences Who coaxes the flowers from the ground, only that the frost may nip them? It had ceased to rain, and a frost was congealing the moisture under foot. These I carefully packed in cotton wool and kept safe from the frost. Plant out arum lilies when all danger of frost has passed, either in moist soil or up to 30cm deep in a pool to grow as water plants. Easy Take potted nerines, winter-flowering arum lilies and agapanthus indoors to protect from frost and water logging. In the winter the ditches are flooded to protect the cress from frost. Before it dries, the peanut seed is easily injured by frost. Found on dung and in richly manured pastures, from July to frost. By morning, probably, there would be a frost, if not a snowfall, on the grass and rye, and an icy surface over the standing water. On that bleak hill-top the earth was hard with a black frost, and the air made me shiver through every limb. Early in December came a black frost, and navigation on the canal was suspended. The course was and is completely fit to race and we are now re-covering the track with the heavy duty black frost sheets. The course was and is completely fit to race and we are now recovering the track with the heavy duty black frost sheets. The second year a hard frost killed his young grove, and he fell ill with malaria. Clerk of the course Emma Marly has put down frost covers to protect the track from freezing temperatures. Then, suddenly, all our spring gladness and Maytime hopes were blighted as by a killing frost. The sensitive fern is so called from its being very sensitive to frost. He prayed for frost, and hoarfrost settled that night on its branches. Then the frost smoke rose like mist, and the white glare shone as a sea. To be precise, they are under 65 acres-worth of black frost covers. Show More Sentences A fortnight later, when the snow had gone, and had been followed by a hard black frost, she took advantage of the state of the roads to try the experiment. Scrooge seized the ruler with such energy of action, that the singer fled in terror, leaving the keyhole to the fog and even more congenial frost. The lumber was hard to work because it was full of frost, and the boards gave off a sweet smell of pine woods, as the heap of yellow shavings grew higher and higher. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean towards each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. A sharp dry wind and a slight frost had so hardened the roads when we alighted at Worcester, that their furrowed tracks were like ridges of granite. Microscopically small had been the edges of the lung-tissue touched by the frost, but they now began to slough off, giving rise to a dry, hacking cough. Sometimes driver and horse have to wait for hours in the rain or frost, shivering with the cold, while the merry people within are dancing away to the music. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of frost? Words that rhyme with frost What is the past tense of frost? What is the plural of frost? What is the adverb for frost? What is the adjective for frost? What is the noun for frost? Translations for frost Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words frosh frore frontwoman frontwards frontward frontside Frost frostbite frostbitten frosted frostily frostiness 5-letter Words Starting With f fr fro fros