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How to use frosty in a sentence

29 example sentences · adjective

Frosty means cold, chilly; icy. Example: “The air was frosty; I could see my breath and walked quickly with my hands in my pockets.”

Examples of frosty by meaning

adjectiveCold, chilly; icy.

  • The air was frosty; I could see my breath and walked quickly with my hands in my pockets.
  • I'd like a frosty milkshake.
  • During the frostiest days of the Cold War, avoiding the Soviet Bloc meant flying north around Greenland to Alaska, refueling in Anchorage, and then around the Bering Straits to reach Japan.2022 February 26, John Walton, “How the Ukraine conflict could redraw the world air map”, in CNN, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2022

adjectiveHaving frost on it or in it.

  • The frosty pumpkin is the sign of the end of the growing season, soon the greenery will wither and harvest end for the year.
  • The frosty beverage gave him a brain freeze.

adjectiveHaving an aloof or inhospitable manner.

  • After the divorce, she was civil but frosty to her ex.
  • Chilly from the start, she grows ever frostier as the book proceeds, partly because Mr.2010 November 28, Janet Maslin, “A New York Tale of Art, Money and Ambition”, in The New York Times
  • Keir Starmer has met Andy Burnham for the first time since the Makerfield byelection in what sources said was a “frosty” meeting to thrash out a transition of power.2026 June 23, Pippa Crerar, “Burnham and Starmer hold ‘frosty’ meeting to thrash out transition of power”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

More sentences with frosty

  • I feel I'm under obligation to attend my sister's wedding, even though we have a very frosty relationship.From the entry obligation
  • They stood outside for hours, shivering in the frosty air.From the entry shiver
  • Leaving the world behind, I’d wallow in frosty solitude and chocolate torta.2012, Steven Parlato, The Namesake, Merit Press, Simon & Schuster, Inc., →ISBN. From the entry torta
  • There are two reasons my feelings towards Disney are slightly frosty.2012 June 24, Clare Heal, “Milne’s music strikes right note”, in Daily Express. From the entry princessification
  • So when we belatedly celebrated Caspar's third anniversary the following weekend, I was notably frosty towards her.2011 April 22, Anna Maxted, “Why I love my mother-in-law”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry monster-in-law
  • We may have to move at a moments notice so stay frosty.2011, J. R. Brice, The Wrath of Mamba, page 267. From the entry stay frosty
  • He and a small group of other loyalists stayed frosty and refused to let the unit die.2007, Sean Michael Flynn, The Fighting 69th: From Ground Zero to Baghdad. From the entry stay frosty
  • But in that upland pocket of plain in the frosty night they sounded most intimately near.1916, John Buchan, Greenmantle. From the entry rafale
  • Persons born in winter are, so to say, of a cold and frosty disposition.1900, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 104. From the entry so to say
  • No doubt there were frosty telegrams in centuries gone by.2015 February 19, Dean Burnett, “OK, don't read this article about passive-aggressive behaviour. Honestly, it's fine”, in The Guardian…. From the entry passive-aggressive
  • Her frosty red lipstick kept glomming at the corners of her mouth, giving her an unnatural clown frown.2009 August 11, Nancy Grace, The Eleventh Victim, Hachette Books, →ISBN. From the entry glom
  • Falling himself also at the last hurdle of doing away with Tsung, wants to get his frosty hands on Khan now.1997, Jack Sanger with with Jane Wilson, Bryn Davies, and Roger Whitaker, “Keeping IT in the Family: Computer Games and Families”, in…. From the entry fall at the last hurdle
  • At that rate we shall soon have a generation of children who never tasted a buckwheat cake on a frosty morning.1956 January 8, “Breakfast? No Longer Buckwheaty”, in The Charlotte Observer, volume 87, number 274, Charlotte, N.C., page 2-C, column 1. From the entry buckwheaty
  • Her beauty was as water in the desert, as fire on a frosty night, as diamonds, rubies, pearls, sapphires, and amethysts.1922, P. G. Wodehouse, “The Coming of Gowf”, in The Clicking of Cuthbert. From the entry easy on the eyes
  • I, for one, never refused a cold bottle of beer or a tall, cool, frosty Tom Collins and never will unless doctor says so.1936 July 20, The Detroit Free Press, 106th year, number 77, page 9. From the entry drunkardess
  • And when you've got this silver piece, Just order up a stein— Got to with songsome black-bird pies— The frosty stein for mine!1907, Puck, volume 62. From the entry songsome
  • Relations apparently became frosty after Hurst complained about Robinson's son's banger races in a nearby field and the family was served with a noise abatement order.2009 June 2, Rowan Pelling, “Oh for those days of catfights and sequinned G-strings”, in The Daily Telegraph. From the entry banger race
  • If paint is applied and is undry when evening comes, the frosty air of night may destroy the gloss and make the surface paint very unsightly.1920, A. Ashmun Kelly, The Expert Paint Mixer, page 145. From the entry undry
  • The cloop-cloop of the horse's hoofs on the road rang out musically in the frosty air, raising ringing, iron-sounding echoes, like blacksmith's sledges on an anvil.1912 January, Cecil D. G. Franklin (“Cetic”), “One Chance Meeting Another”, in The English Illustrated Magazine, volume XLVI (New Series)…. From the entry cloop
  • Sadly I dropped them back into my pocket, sadly we yearned toward the blessed stove and the armchairs, and sadly we went out into the frosty night.1907 December, Jack London, “Hoboes That Pass In The Night”, in The Cosmopolitan, volume 44, number 2, page 193. From the entry your money is no good here
  • Persons born in winter are, so to say, of a cold and frosty disposition and can thereby exert a refrigerating influence on the temperature of the air.1900, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 104. From the entry refrigerate

Meaning of frosty

  1. adjective Cold, chilly; icy.
  2. adjective Having frost on it or in it.
  3. adjective Having an aloof or inhospitable manner.

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Questions about frosty in a sentence

How do you use frosty in a sentence?
Frosty is used as an adjective. For example: “The air was frosty; I could see my breath and walked quickly with my hands in my pockets.”
What is a short sentence with frosty?
“I'd like a frosty milkshake.”
What does frosty mean?
Frosty means cold, chilly; icy.

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