Used in a Sentence

freeze

How to use freeze in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for freeze.

Editorial note

* If a customer has more than 20% in receipts than the previous day, freeze all funds for 190 days.

Examples13
Definitions14
Parts of speech2

Quick take

the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of freeze gathered in one view.

noun

the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid

noun

weather cold enough to cause freezing

noun

an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement; "a halt in the arms race"; "a nuclear freeze"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for freeze.

noun

the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid

noun

weather cold enough to cause freezing

noun

an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement; "a halt in the arms race"; "a nuclear freeze"

noun

fixing (of prices or wages etc) at a particular level; "a freeze on hiring"

verb

stop moving or become immobilized; "When he saw the police car he froze"

verb

change to ice; "The water in the bowl froze"

verb

be cold; "I could freeze to death in this office when the air conditioning is turned on"

verb

cause to freeze; "Freeze the leftover food"

verb

stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it; "Suspend the aid to the war-torn country"

verb

be very cold, below the freezing point; "It is freezing in Kalamazoo"

verb

change from a liquid to a solid when cold; "Water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit"

verb

prohibit the conversion or use of (assets); "Blocked funds"; "Freeze the assets of this hostile government"

verb

anesthetize by cold

verb

suddenly behave coldly and formally; "She froze when she saw her ex-husband"

Example sentences

1

* If a customer has more than 20% in receipts than the previous day, freeze all funds for 190 days.

2

Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

3

Basically, when you attribute your kids accomplishments to their being smart, they kind of freeze up when they get a problem they can't handle.

4

If regulators should attempt to freeze delivery mechanisms to current forms and bar new ones such as drones, that is yet another thing.

5

Maybe somebody can explain this better to me -- but if you freeze up in interviews, are you also going to freeze up in developer meetings?

6

" Maybe somebody can explain this better to me -- but if you freeze up in interviews, are you also going to freeze up in developer meetings?

7

When you're in the room with clients?If you freeze up in interviews, then it doesn't seem like the problem is with interviews -- the problem is with you freezing up, isn't it?

8

One of the central rules of political organizing is this: you pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

9

To take it further, it's pretty rare for Flash code to bootstrap a huge set of libraries to do some petty effect - and if it does, the plugin doesn't freeze the browser preload while waiting on them.

10

Usually in aircraft accidents there's a chain of events, but in this case there were so many possible contributing causes that other than having better pitots that didn't freeze over, solving any one other problem may not have broken the chain.

11

Note to google, amazon, paypal, anyone with a feature that can freeze, ban, hold, or otherwise disable accounts containing things that are valuable and especially paid for by customers:You need a department that can take responsibility for account lockouts and resolve them!

12

Not only do they freeze assets, and add on ridiculous charges like 15 counts of wire fraud because the document in question contained 15 pages, they also use effective PR campaigns - bringing out the defendant in handcuffs, staging press conferences where they go into detail on the alleged crime before the trial has even begun in order to taint the jury pool.

13

You start getting personal phone calls from real people, you have actual phone numbers that you can call, they contact you at your cell phone, and they tell you things like "Due to rule xyz, we would technically have to freeze your account, and the next time you log in, you'll message saying if you don't provide information a, b, and c, you'll get locked out of your account; don't worry, that's not going to happen, but please work with us to determine what we can do to meet our technical requirements for donations coming in to non-profit organizations" and "We've been noticing customers filing chargebacks, however we do recognize that your chargeback rate is far below the usual x% [I'm not allowed to disclose this number] so we'll just front you the money until we rule the dispute; we also noticed you're no longer bothering to dispute the chargebacks, is there a particular reason?

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use freeze in a sentence?

* If a customer has more than 20% in receipts than the previous day, freeze all funds for 190 days.

What does freeze mean?

the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid

What part of speech is freeze?

freeze is commonly used as noun, verb.