white frost

Frequency: 7.09.5 per million words

frost that covers surfaces with a white coating of ice crystals

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Examples (10)

  • At dawn, a white frost covered the fields like powdered sugar.
  • The forecast warned of a white frost overnight, so we brought the potted herbs inside.
  • By mid-morning the white frost had melted from the car windshield.
  • Photographers love the delicate patterns a white frost leaves on windowpanes.
  • A sudden white frost in late spring damaged the young tomato seedlings.
  • We woke to silence, lawns glittering under a hard white frost.
  • If a white frost is likely, cover tender plants with cloth before nightfall.
  • The hedgerows were rimmed with white frost, and our breath hung in the air.
  • After days of rain, a sharp white frost finally set in and firmed the ground.
  • Children traced their names in the white frost on the picnic table.