How do you use Thaw in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like melt or thawing, plus the exact meaning.
Thaw in a sentence
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Thaw meaning
- To gradually melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften from frozen.
- To become sufficiently warm to melt ice and snow, said in reference to the weather.
- To grow gentle or genial.
Synonyms of Thaw
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Using Thaw
- The main meaning on this page is: To gradually melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften from frozen. | To become sufficiently warm to melt ice and snow, said in reference to the weather. | To grow gentle or genial.
- Useful related words include: melt, thawing, warming, loosening.
- Possible Dutch translations are: dooi.
- In the example corpus, thaw often appears in combinations such as: to thaw, thaw in, the thaw.
Context around Thaw
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 10 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Thaw
- In this selection, "thaw" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, freeze, brokered, damascus, delegations, cycle and icy stand out and add context to how "thaw" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a further thaw in ties and a widespread thaw for most. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "thaw" sits close to words such as accuser, adoptive and ahsoka, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with thaw
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Never thaw pipes with a torch; hair dryers work well. (10 words)
So there’s potentially some sign of a thaw there. (10 words)
As Adam MacVicar reports, the freeze-thaw cycle is making conditions icy. (12 words)
Coming after more than a decade of hostility between the two, the Russian-mediated Ankara-Damascus thaw began late last year when the Turkish and Syrian defense ministers and intelligence chiefs held the first high-level meeting in Moscow. (39 words)
Arnold Schwarzenegger said at a memorial service for legendary Hollywood lawyer Jake Bloom Thursday that Bloom managed to thaw the famous hatred between Ahnuld and Sylvester Stallone when he brought them into the Planet Hollywood deal. (36 words)
In fact, we are going to see a widespread thaw for most of next week as North Atlantic Blocking gets established and sends a pool of warm air over most of the Island and southern Labrador. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Among other moves since their Chinese-brokered thaw, delegations from Iran and Saudi Arabia have exchanged visits this week to pave the way for reopening diplomatic missions.
Arnold Schwarzenegger said at a memorial service for legendary Hollywood lawyer Jake Bloom Thursday that Bloom managed to thaw the famous hatred between Ahnuld and Sylvester Stallone when he brought them into the Planet Hollywood deal.
As Adam MacVicar reports, the freeze-thaw cycle is making conditions icy.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese vowed on Sunday to "work constructively" with China as the two countries seek to thaw icy relations.
Coming after more than a decade of hostility between the two, the Russian-mediated Ankara-Damascus thaw began late last year when the Turkish and Syrian defense ministers and intelligence chiefs held the first high-level meeting in Moscow.
In fact, we are going to see a widespread thaw for most of next week as North Atlantic Blocking gets established and sends a pool of warm air over most of the Island and southern Labrador.
In the late 1980s, as the Cold War stubbornly refuses to thaw, a new battle heats up, this time for the soul of the intelligence agency Checkmate.
It is this same Kolapo who deployed her professionalism as the Governor’s Media Consultant that came to thaw the congealed relationship that hitherto existed between the media and the government.
It will take several years from the time that interest rates begin to fall for the financing pipelines to thaw.
Kleis says the freeze, thaw and moisture that happens often in our state causes problems for our roads.
Make sure you thaw your turkey in time to have it oven or deep fry-ready.
Never thaw pipes with a torch; hair dryers work well.
One other issue noted in a social media post is that the bags are difficult to remove from the bins for disposal in the winter months, particularly after a thaw and freeze.
Potholes are more numerous this winter because of the higher snowfall amounts and numerous thaw-freeze cycles.
So there’s potentially some sign of a thaw there.
Southeast Alaska is a global hotspot for another type of landslide: those by thaw of high-altitude permafrost, melt of glaciers that buttress bases of mountains or a combination of those forces.
Such a meeting would mark the highest-level talks between Ankara and Damascus since the Syrian war began in 2011 and signal a further thaw in ties.
Thanks for reporting an error with the story, "Pipes down: Record cold, thaw a nightmare for plumbing, water infrast.
The middle row shows the outcome of conventional cryopreservation and the bottom row the outcome of the new approach, which yields a much greater fraction of live cells post-thaw.
The movie follows two Los Angeles teenagers — played by Pauly Shore and Ke Huy Quan's co-star Sean Astin — who find and thaw out a frozen caveman, "Link," who must then adapt to modern life.
Common combinations with thaw
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to thaw 36×
- thaw in 21×
- the thaw 12×
- thaw and 9×
- thaw the 8×
- spring thaw 8×
- and thaw 7×
- freeze thaw 6×
- of thaw 6×
- thaw for 5×