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Example sentences for "below zero"

  • What it must have been at day break I cannot say; but it was sensibly colder than at ten o'clock, and I do not doubt must have been 45 below zero.

  • Then I set up my thermometer again; it registered 39 below zero, 71 degrees of frost.

  • It will easily be imagined this service cannot be very agreeable when the thermometer stands 30° or 40° below zero, as sometimes happens in this country.

  • Mr. Stuart had an excellent thermometer, which indicated the lowest state of temperature to be 43° below zero.

  • As the dirt accumulated about these people was visibly of a communicative nature, I removed at night into the open air, where the thermometer fell to 15° below zero, although it was the next day 60° above it.

  • To-day the temperature has gone down to 18° below zero (-27° C.

  • The temperature keeps at about 22° below zero (-30° C.

  • This is the coldest day we have had yet, with the thermometer 31° below zero (-35.

  • At mid-day your sunlit compartment is often too warm to be pleasant, when outside it is 10° below zero.

  • There we had to face 75° below zero, but then Yuk-Takh adjoins Verkhoyansk, the coldest place in the world.

  • When the thermometer is below zero, I feel like Bob Acres--all my valour oozing out at my fingers' ends.

  • Our thermometer at the time showed a temperature of 21° below zero.

  • I found the temperature varying from 25° to 40° below zero at different exposures.

  • Major Abasa told me that when the cold was 40° below zero he had found the Koriaks in their yourts with a temperature 75° above.

  • The temperature, at starting, was 22° below zero--colder than either of us had ever before known.

  • About an inch had fallen during the night, and the mercury had risen to 6° below zero.

  • What was our surprise, on reaching the post-station, at learning that it was actually 2° below zero!

  • Fancy 35° below zero which is 67° below freezing-point!

  • Zero there is not thought cold, and the thermometer varies between that and 35° below zero, for two or three months.

  • Mr. Stratton furnished me with an affidavit showing one of our very coldest winters in which the temperature went down, in February, to 47° below zero.

  • The climate of the southern section of Labrador is by no means severe; the thermometer, even in the coldest months of the year, seldom falling lower than 30° below zero.

  • For ten days previously the thermometer ranged from 15° below zero to 32° above, and the weather was as boisterous as in the month of January, snowing and blowing furiously all the time.

  • Once the temperatures went down to nearly 30 below zero, except for a small region around the Niagara peninsula, where it hit only 12.

  • The old Pomeroy strain is killed at about 20 below zero Fahrenheit.

  • I have an impression that it gets 15 to 18 below zero.

  • Reports are on hand which show that the trees have endured temperatures of 40 below zero F.

  • DRAKE: In our part of the country the temperature ran from 24 to 26 below zero.

  • This vinegar, when exposed to the temperature of 25° below zero, congealed only into a consistence like that of the thickest honey, but was never sufficiently hard to break any vessel which contained it.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    backward glance; below the; below white; below zero; blue line; but perhaps; domestic work; five feet; foreign immigration; human culture; many hands; mountainous countries; particular sort; personal merit; said county; second marriage; spirituous liquors; stiffnecked people; strong points; summer complaint; summer resident; then walked; when taken; wine and