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Example sentences for "thawed"

Lexicographically close words:
thaumaturgical; thaumaturgus; thaumaturgy; thaves; thaw; thawing; thaws; thawt; thawy; thay
  1. People like Mrs. Taylor repressed her, but the motherly loquacity and comprehension of Mrs. Earle drew her out and thawed at once and forever the ice of acquaintanceship.

  2. She would have liked to discard her hostess from her thought as a light creature unworthy of intellectual seriousness, but she found herself fascinated and even thawed in spite of herself.

  3. I could not put them on until a comrade had thawed them at the fire for me.

  4. We got brush in the woods to cover the ground inside the tents, and built fires in the company streets, as a fire within the tent would have thawed the frozen ground, and reduce it to a quagmire.

  5. I recollected this, and aware that the carcase of the animal would supply me for years, I began to indulge a hope that I might yet be saved, if driven sufficiently to the southward to admit of my being thawed out.

  6. As for ourselves we have no desire to play with frost; and I for one shall be relieved to see this question thawed out without further delay.

  7. Thereupon he thawed a little, kicked the dogs, and pointed to where the mountain dipped against the star-studded sky.

  8. Claire received them dubiously, then thawed to the order for the bazaar.

  9. He thawed before her gentle voice, a shy, troubled old man, numbed still by his loss.

  10. As soon as I was sufficiently thawed out I went across the road to the other house which gave forth the sound of singing and the rhythmic tread of dancing feet.

  11. The soil is a stiff clay, with in some places surface beds of sand, and is seldom thawed out to a greater depth than six feet.

  12. Well, some things can stand being froze hard and thawed out again better than we Christians.

  13. Yes, I shall be thawed out some day, and some one may come along in the future and find my bones.

  14. Until that has risen and thawed us it will not be safe to move.

  15. The champagne thawed the tongues of the company, and as they spoke Sylvia's heart sank more and more.

  16. Louis melted snow, made tea, and thawed out a chunk of frozen pemmican.

  17. It was after nine, and the three made a scanty meal of thawed pemmican before going to sleep again.

  18. I have even crept shivering from the thawed sleeping-bag to flog a dog, so that I might hear a sound.

  19. My heart is thawed into melting pleasure after being so long frozen up in the Greenland bay of indifference, amid the noise and nonsense of Edinburgh.

  20. At last the stove was going, the dogs fed, and they themselves thawed out.

  21. Mrs. Olson thawed out the pudding and the chocolates in the oven and made a kind of mush out of some oats Pete had saved from the horse feed.

  22. The old-timer thawed out a slab of dried salmon till the fat began to frizzle and fed each husky a pound of the fish and a lump of tallow.

  23. The warmth of the fire after the cold of the street, or the sight of her old home after a few months in her new one, had properly thawed elegant, long-nosed Enid.

  24. There were, however, moments when he thawed so far as practically to allow, and every one knows what that means, that the Saturday was his chief source of income.

  25. He was glad to go; for at first none of us, I am afraid, was very civil to him, though we afterward thawed a little.

  26. Naturally Queen Mab felt disgraced, and first she tried the effect of ordering the court into tears for nine minutes, and then she blamed the Cupids and decreed that they should wear fools' caps until they thawed the Duke's frozen heart.

  27. She thawed a little under my obvious sympathy and honoured me with some of her views and confidences.

  28. He was surprised at the ease of his movements, astounded that he was able to drag her fur-wrapped body to the exposed thawed gravel-bank, which he undermined with the ax and caved upon her.

  29. In the darkness of a gale-driven morning, Kit crawled out, built a fire in his stocking feet, by which he thawed out his frozen shoes, then boiled coffee and fried bacon.

  30. In the safe, all but that six I have all thawed and ready for you any time you sing out.

  31. By one o'clock the crust had thawed so that the skees broke through, and before two o'clock the web-shoes were breaking through.

  32. He called a rest, built a fire, threw each dog its half-salmon, and thawed and ate his pound of beans.

  33. Your backbone is limber as thawed marrow.

  34. But Shorty soon thawed into a freshet of speech.

  35. McCan strove to struggle, but Smoke gripped him cruelly and searched him, drawing forth from under his armpit, where it had been thawed by the heat of his body, a strip of caribou meat.

  36. Poplars were growing in this ice, which was thawed to the distance of some inches from the stem.

  37. In this case, although the roots had not thawed the thick covering of earth above them, the trunks must have melted the ice in contact with them.

  38. In consequence of the covering of the snow, therefore, the previously frozen ground had been thawed and raised to seven degrees above the freezing point.

  39. Ain't thawed two inches," he muttered, stooping down and groping with his fingers in the wet muck.

  40. In a trice the frost was started and the thawed streamlets dancing madly on the white-hot surface beneath.

  41. It was one o'clock last night before I got him thawed out enough to give up, and I had to let him hold my hand, at that," and she rubbed that hand vigorously as if it still had some stain upon it.


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