Thaws and spring are synonymous with the sloppy season or sentimental stage.
At the East, as in the West, the cold is followed by thaws and spring.
The opposites or antipathies, were the cold grays of November evenings, and the thick, muddy thaws of Boston winter.
Two experts go to it when the first spring thaws attack the drifts and the little creek grows restless beneath its winter quilt of snow and ice.
Winter blizzards on Shaniko Flats were to be expected, while after thaws the heavy stages "bogged down" with aggravating regularity.
IX Each reed that grows in Our stream is frozen, The fields it flows in Are hard and black; The water-fairy Waits wise and wary Till time shall vary And thaws come back.
Moreover, this must have occurred at a recent date, otherwise the summer thaws and the autumn snow would have obliterated all such traces as those we had discovered.
Toward the end of March, before the first thaws softened his back trail and made sled-travel heart-breaking for Fleur, Jean began relaying west the meat he had shot.
Not whenthaws begin," Nell answered decidedly, as she cherished the little flame in the birch bark.
The girl thought of all that, because she had been here with her father and he had shown her what to beware of as the spring thaws approached.
And then my swamp lies so low and absolutely flat that thethaws and rains of Spring render plowing it in season for Oats, or any other crop that requires early seeding, a matter of doubt and difficulty.
They are not so liable to be gullied by suddenthaws or flooding rains.
The rain and the thaws had melted the snow, upon the top of the ice, and made it a sheet of water.
There had been rain and thaws lately, and cold weather after them, so that the surface of the road had melted, and then become frozen again; and this made it icy.
Germany, that freezes at night and thaws out by day only enough to freeze up again at night, has also experienced as much agitation on this subject as the nature of the case will allow.
Drained Land Freezes Deepest, but Thaws Soonest, and the Reasons.
It thaws the ice in the intercellular spaces, and the cells are quick to absorb the water they gave up when winter approached.
Nature soaks, freezes, and thaws them, and thus the range of the honey locust is extended.
We’ve got to be on Anvil Creek before the ground thawsor we’ll lose the Midas.
The snow in the gulch was deep and the ground thaws slowly.
The house-fly thaws out; a company of cheerful wasps take possession of a chamber-window.
In that region the ground never thaws more than a foot or two from the surface; below to an unknown depth it is hardened by perpetual frost.
If the boat is frozen in below there they must remain till she thawsout again.
There were, at that time, numerous icebergs on the coasts, some of those which the strongest thaws are unable to detach; the continual series of ridges showed themselves under the strangest forms.
On the morning of the 20th of April the Forward was in sight of an iceberg a hundred and fifty feet high, stranded there from time immemorial; the thaws had taken no effect on it, and had respected its strange forms.
The timber of the interior renders wood the natural fuel for the production of the steam that thaws the ground, but the scarcity of wood on the Seward Peninsula substitutes coal.
In some years snow exposed to the sun thaws very slightly during these months; in other winters there is no thaw whatever.
From the latter circumstance we may conclude that thaws often originate under ground from warm vapours which arise; else how should subterraneous animals receive such early intimations of their approach?
The frozen fount of the mother's breast thaws under the warm wrapper, the child finds its natural food, and breathes and lives again.
And as the nourishing fount flows freely for her sucking child, the frozen fountain of her soul thaws too, and overflows from her closed eyelids in hot but restful tears.
For autumn rains and spring thaws must set in, when the seven or eight square miles of the ground of the fair, as well as the country to an immense extent, will be under water.
The first fall of snow thaws perhaps a few days afterwards, the second in about a week, the third in five months.
In January and February, for example, thaws and freezes are common.
It thawsand freezes within twenty-four hours; there can never have been known such an extraordinary winter.
There were many icebergs on its shores, which no thaws ever melt away; this gives the island a singular appearance from the sea.
The brig, although motionless, nevertheless had to be fastened securely by means of anchors; this was a necessary precaution against possible thaws and submarine upheavals.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thaws" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
