How to Use unfreeze in a Sentence
unfreeze
verb- The warm weather unfroze the lake.
- He helped me to unfreeze my computer.
- We can't wait until the ground unfreezes so we can start gardening.
- I had to wait for my computer to unfreeze before I could read my e-mail.
- The Justice Department agreed to unfreeze the company's assets.
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For them, this means that future frozen rates will unfreeze, drop and then freeze again.
— Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 9 Aug. 2023 -
The connection is fuzzy, the sound cuts out and the sonogram circles freeze and unfreeze black and white.
— Joseph Horton, Time, 13 Apr. 2020 -
Offred briefly unfreezes as her eyes well with silent tears.
— Rena Gross, Billboard, 16 May 2018 -
If the agreement with the four colleges is approved, the new city spending will unfreeze.
— Steph MacHado, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2023 -
Tap the shutter button to unfreeze the frame, and press the Home button to leave the Magnifier.
— J. D. Biersdorfer, New York Times, 16 May 2017 -
With a freeze, that means unfreezing the account and then refreezing it once the credit check is done.
— Herb Weisbaum, NBC News, 8 Feb. 2018 -
The Uzbeks want the U.S. and Swiss to work together to unfreeze those remaining assets.
— Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2023 -
Change all freezes to slows! Make frozen players take no damage! Shoot frozen teammates to unfreeze them!
— Paul Tassi, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2021 -
Consumers would be able to have their credit frozen or unfrozen within one hour of putting in the request via phone or email.
— NBC News, 13 Apr. 2018 -
First-time homebuyers would get a fat tax credit in a move to unfreeze the tight housing market.
— Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 11 Mar. 2024 -
There's a $10 fee to freeze — and another $10 fee to unfreeze credit — in Michigan in many instances.
— Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 22 Sep. 2017 -
The United States and Iran sign an agreement to release the hostages and unfreeze Iranian assets.
— CNN, 25 Oct. 2021 -
Part of that is because most women who freeze their eggs still never unfreeze them, still never use them.
— Quartz Staff, Quartz, 7 Feb. 2022 -
And, to temporarily unfreeze it, there's another fee to pay in all but eight states.
— Christy Bieber, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2018 -
The solution---at least for human tissue---is to freeze and unfreeze the organ fast enough to keep ice from collecting on the surface.
— Neel Patel, Wired News, 5 June 2015 -
The agency has one to three days to institute the freeze — and an hour to unfreeze — if the request is made by telephone or electronically.
— Sean Rossman, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2018 -
Going forward, consumers would not have to pay anything to freeze or unfreeze their credit.
— Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 23 May 2018 -
Consumers who plan to apply for credit should unfreeze their reports a few days ahead of time with any of the credit-reporting firms, Mr. Ulzheimer says.
— Daisy Maxey, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2017 -
Ducey called on Hobbs to unfreeze the school choice program during a press conference outside of her office on Wednesday.
— Adam Sabes, Fox News, 1 Oct. 2022 -
In return, the US would stop adding new sanctions and would unfreeze billions of dollars of Iranian assets.
— Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 29 June 2023 -
The flaw caused a weeks-long surge in fraudulent unemployment claims, which has led thousands of Ohioans to spend four hours or longer on the phone in order to unfreeze their accounts.
— Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland, 27 July 2023 -
The ability to security freeze or unfreeze your Equifax credit report for one year, free of charge.
— Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 8 Sep. 2017 -
Tuesday’s filing asked the federal court to unfreeze the Hawaii case, allowing a new legal challenge to go forward.
— Vivian Yee, Orange County Register, 8 Mar. 2017 -
Less than a week after the launch of the investigation, the White House unfroze the funds for military assistance without explaining the hold-up.
— The Economist, 21 Sep. 2019 -
The election workers want to dismiss the bankruptcy, which would unfreeze their lawsuit and enable them to begin collecting their staggering award.
— Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 10 July 2024
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