cold front

noun

Definition of cold frontnext
as in chill

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Recent Examples of cold front Today's cold front will gradually sweep the leftover humidity offshore. — Bill Kelly, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026 Already, that cold front was set to put a big cool on temperatures that again were expected to crack 90 or get close to it on Thursday in the hottest spots. — Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 27 Aug. 2026 The second round of storms developed farther west, near the spine of the Appalachian Mountains Thursday afternoon as a cold front started to push into the Northeast from the Ohio Valley. — Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2026 The storms were sparked by a cold front that brought heavy rain and the threat of flash flooding, the National Weather Service says. — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 22 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for cold front
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cold front
  1. chill
  2. cold wave
  3. coldness
  4. cold
  5. bite
  6. chilliness
  7. deep freeze
  8. freeze
Noun
  • That accusation, which could imply further arrests, has put a chill on the entire Russian telecom industry.
    — Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 31 Aug. 2026
  • But Zardoya, best known as the singer of the Marias, brought a chill over the audience with a handful of tracks from Melt and her new EP, Bloom.
    — Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of chill
Noun
  • The region faced another brutal, 19-degree cold wave in January 1985 that again froze millions of orange trees on thousands of acres across Central Florida.
    — Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 June 2026
  • The impact of a cold wave is delayed but sustained.
    — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2026
Definition of cold wave
Noun
  • The danger occurs if that ruthlessness veers into institutional coldness.
    — James McNicholas, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026
  • The music recalled the angst and coldness of Carpenter’s movie scores but with more robust arrangements, buttressed by Davies’ guitar.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of coldness
Noun
  • For centuries, Arctic cold has kept plant life small, a sort of dollhouse of Earth's miniatures.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 25 Aug. 2026
  • But Jake was also exhausted and seemed to be fighting a cold.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of cold
Noun
  • The lawsuit further alleged that Trader Joe’s put its crustless PB&Js peanut in packaging that too closely resembled the coloring of an Uncrustables box and featured a similar photograph of a sandwich with a bite taken out of one side.
    — Dee-Ann Durbin, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Throughout the night, creatives grazed on light bites from Goop Kitchen—the teriyaki salmon hand rolls were a crowd favorite—and bopped to the tunes from DJ Mariko.
    — Paul Chi, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of bite
Noun
  • Or that Penélope Cruz’s sultry chilliness would jibe with either her male counterparts or Wilde’s diary-of-a-mad-housewife interpretation of a brittle, eager-to-impress woman brimming with creative frustration.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2026
Definition of chilliness
Noun
  • For the time being, at least, the deal uniting two of Hollywood’s biggest studios is in a deep freeze.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 24 July 2026
  • This deep freeze helps make the phylogenetic reconstruction possible.
    — John Drake, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
Definition of deep freeze
Noun
  • Why Private Credit Feels This First The exit freeze does not just strand equity holders.
    — Mayra Rodriguez Valladares, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
  • The recent announcement also follows the prior freeze on base rates approved by the Georgia PSC in July 2025, as well as the plan approved in May 2026 to lower overall rates, as per the release.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of freeze

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