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Example sentences for "freezing"

Lexicographically close words:
freewill; freeze; freezer; freezers; freezes; freien; freier; freight; freightage; freighted
  1. We have some in bearing, but as far as having any difficulty with them or freezing back, we have none.

  2. STOKE: Weather conditions, freezing may have caused it.

  3. Acetylene plants must be prevented from freezing by erection in frost- free rooms, or by the employment of a heating apparatus or other suitable appliance.

  4. In the use of a generator regard should be had to the danger of stoppage of passage of the gas and resulting increase of pressure which may arise from the freezing of the water.

  5. Where freezing may be anticipated, steps shall be taken to prevent it.

  6. As the reaction between calcium carbide and water evolves much heat, the most obvious way of preventing the plant from freezing is to economise that heat, i.

  7. Must be provided with suitable protection against freezing of any water contained in the apparatus.

  8. In the use of a generator, regard shall be had to the danger of stoppage of passage of the gas, and resulting increase of pressure, which may arise from the freezing of the water.

  9. The danger of freezing in very severe weather may be prevented by the use of calcium chloride, or preferably, perhaps, methylated spirit in the water (cf.

  10. Their food was getting less and less, and what there was of it was most unpalatable, for the bread was stale and dry, though the meat kept perfectly in that freezing temperature.

  11. According to most astronomers, there is absolutely no air on the moon, also no moisture, and the temperature is either very high or around the freezing point.

  12. He also corked up the bottle of water, which was kept from freezing by means of a fur pouch in which it was carried.

  13. It's always below freezing here, and that's cold enough.

  14. They were not cold, for their fur garments kept them comfortably warm, and there was no wind to make the freezing temperature search through the crevices of their clothing.

  15. For fire exhaled in freezing clouds possessed, Warring for way, makes all the heavens exclaim.

  16. Then should'st thou not disdain my true desire, Or think I wronged thee to reveal to my smart; For as the fire through freezing clouds doth break, So not myself but thou in me would'st speak.

  17. The water of melted ice might be lighter, both as being fresh (having lost its salt in the decomposing process of freezing), and because its temperature is nearer the freezing point than the inferior water of the Gulf stream.

  18. This might arise from the known law that fresh water passes the point of greatest density when cooled down below 40 degrees, and between that and the freezing point expands again.

  19. Fourier, have a temperature much inferior to that of freezing water.

  20. Lichens in particular ascend to great elevations, sometimes growing two thousand feet above the line of perpetual snow, at the utmost limits of vegetation, and where the mean temperature is nearly at the freezing point.

  21. The ice, moreover, melts very slowly at the bottom of running streams in winter, as the water there is often nearly at the freezing point, as will be seen from what will be said in the sequel of ground-ice.

  22. In the late polar expedition it was found that, in some regions, as in Baffin's Bay, there were marine animals inhabiting the bottom at great depths, where the temperature of the water was below the freezing point.

  23. He states also that humming birds were seen sipping the sweets of the flowers "after two or three days of constant rain, snow, and sleet, during which time the thermometer had been at the freezing point.

  24. Before freezing works were established, boiling down was the one resource, the tallow, hides, and sheepskins giving a meagre return, whilst the valuable carcass went to the pigs.

  25. Hither I bear it, a gift to the gods, and a death to my foe-men, Freezing the seer to stone; to hide thine eyes from the horror.

  26. These slates appear to have been detached from the strata they cover, by the freezing of the water, which insinuates itself betwixt their layers.

  27. Swans of frost descend the rivers, Ducks of ice in countless numbers Swim upon thy freezing waters, Near the cataract and whirlpool.

  28. Each one was given two pairs of flannel socks and other warm clothing, for freezing weather had come to stay.

  29. In stormy weather he wore an outer shirt and overalls of drilling, which kept the drifting snow from filling up and freezing in a mass the hair of the deerskins.

  30. This work was intermittently done, as from time to time they had to return to the terrible duty of thawing out and restoring circulation to the limbs of the freezing man.

  31. So throughout the day, from time to time the Eskimo sledge was turned upside down, and its ice runners renewed by frequent wettings of the injured surfaces, the water freezing as it was applied.

  32. The seaman only asked in feeble voice "to be left alone to die," having reached that benumbed state so dangerous to a freezing man.

  33. Especially bad was his failure to replace his damp foot-gear by dry socks--a practice of recognized necessity in arctic travel to prevent the feet from freezing at night.

  34. In a temperature of seventy-one degrees below freezing "we packed the sledge and strapped on the boat to see how she would drag.

  35. Meantime the distracted Franklin was watching this desperate struggle from the farther bank, where with drenched and freezing clothes he was without musket, blankets, hatchet, or any means of making a fire.

  36. The same directions given for freezing cream apply to the freezing of custard.

  37. The great secret of freezing cream quickly in a common freezer is to have the cream and salt in readiness before breaking the ice into small pieces the size of a walnut.

  38. Men of this breed have stuck to the flag in the freezing Antarctic and in the sun-baked East.

  39. The three great nozzles sent forth gigantic waves of freezing water.

  40. Repeated thawing and freezing has given the snow a coarse grain.

  41. That the sea is salt to render it of greater density, and by lowering its freezing point to preserve it from congelation to within a shorter distance of the poles, though admissible, scarcely meets the entire solution of the question.

  42. Thus it is said that melted iron is cooled down to a sub-red heat, or mercury is cooled from the freezing point to zero, or far below.

  43. Professor Plücker has stated, that by washing the arm with ether previously to plunging it into melted metal, the sensation produced while in the molten mass is that of freezing coldness.

  44. To prove this, the lecturer cooled a mass of ice, by wrapping it in a piece of tinfoil and exposing it for some time to a bath of the ethereal solution of solidified carbonic-acid gas, the coldest freezing mixture known.

  45. The freezing point of sea-water, for instance, is only 3½° F.

  46. The reduced mean of the best spirit-standards gave 67° or 99° below the freezing point of water.

  47. This compression, however, will not form the solid mass unless the temperature of the ice be near that of freezing water.

  48. It was a short, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean, whose freezing spray cased us in ice, as in polished armor.

  49. For three minutes or more he was seen swimming like a dog, throwing his long arms straight out before him, and by turns revealing his brawny shoulders through the freezing foam.

  50. At a lower temperature water expands, its freezing point being 32 deg.

  51. At every temperature above freezing point water passes from the liquid into a gaseous state, the gas being termed steam.

  52. Engines that are used out of doors or are exposed to temperatures below the freezing point must be left so that steam leaks may not condense in any of the parts or pipes and burst them.

  53. A good plan to prevent oil from freezing and yet have a good quality of oil is to mix two parts of lard oil with one part of kerosene.

  54. The precautions necessary to prevent freezing in cold climates are to cover all pipes liable to freeze, to keep the water circulating through them, or to let it out of them if necessary, as in the case of the engine standing.

  55. How would you prevent the water from freezing in the pump?

  56. What precautions are necessary to prevent the engine from freezing in cold climates?

  57. By means of a thermometer the temperature is indicated, and when it shows a very low temperature, the behavior of the oil, subject to this freezing mixture, may be observed and noted.

  58. When the lad curled up to sleep he felt a vague wish to turn three times like a dog, and a well-defined wish that he had fur on his face and a bushy tail to lay around his freezing hands and feet, for it was a night of northern frost.

  59. This innovation was reluctantly introduced solely for the purpose of accommodating visitors in the winter when the hydraulic systems were shut down due to freezing weather.

  60. During this interval, it rained almost every day, but snowed only on the morning of the twenty-first of February, when the liquor of Reaumur's thermometer stood but one degree above the freezing point.

  61. The wall above the great bergschrund was in shadow, the bergschrund last year was especially formidable, and we were all too exhausted safely to face the freezing wind on such a steep ice-slope in the dark.

  62. We'll have to have twenty-four hours of freezing weather before we'll have a crust.

  63. Your freezing to death in a gale of snow wouldn't help matters any.

  64. The observant Indians say these loud reports are burstings in the trees caused by the freezing of the sap.

  65. One complete upset chilled me most thoroughly, as the water was about down to freezing point.

  66. The lad followed me, and thus we ran chasing and catching each other alternately as though we were a couple of boisterous schoolboys instead of a Missionary and his Indian companion striving to save themselves from freezing to death.

  67. A large part of the soil of our world has been made by the freezing of water in the cracks and crevices of rocks.

  68. The force with which water expands in freezing is almost irresistible.

  69. A thick iron bomb-shell filled with water will be split open by the freezing of the liquid as it would be by a charge of gunpowder.

  70. In winter the water-pipes in our houses are often burst by the freezing of their contents.

  71. The freezing of half a gill of water in a confined space will lift a weight of several tons.

  72. The freezing drift was enough to stop one's breath, but the lads were quite at ease, and, to the air of a wicked old shanty, they sang about weathering the storm and anchoring by and by.

  73. That night I was over the rail on to the trawl-beam twice; I was at the pumps an hour; I pulled and hauled with both arms raw, and the snow freezing with the salt as soon as it came on my ulcers, and then I got the smash.

  74. Sacramentaries, the "freezing poison" of their doctrine of the Eucharist, 351.

  75. She looked at him steadily, in which freezing haughtiness, contempt and pity were commingled.

  76. Such were his thoughts as he directed a stony stare of freezing haughtiness upon her--the woman, his sister, whom he now regarded as beyond the pale of blood relationship.

  77. Rutley was perceptibly uneasy under Sam's steady stare and suddenly assumed a pose of freezing haughtiness, deliberately and with studied ceremony adjusted the monocle to his eye and fixed a stony stare at Sam.


  78. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "freezing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    freezing mixture; freezing point