white frost
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frost that covers surfaces with a white coating of ice crystals
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- 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.