Frio

[free-oh]

noun

1. a river in S Texas, flowing S and SE to the Nueces River SE of San Antonio. 220 miles (354 km) long.

Example Sentences

L.A. police officer Bill Frio’s 100-mile daily round trip from Rancho Santa Margarita to Parker Center is his trade-off for “cleaner, newer” living, for “mountains you can see.”

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But in fairness, Frio adds, Orange County’s white-bread reputation is “one of the things I dislike. . . . We’re the new up-and-coming yuppie fundamentalists, and it drives me crazy. I think L.A. has a lot going for it in that L.A. is an open-minded place that doesn’t have resolutions like Irvine’s against gays and doesn’t have anti-abortionists crawling all over it.”

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Dan Frio is a contributor at Edmunds.

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Visitors who once passed through on their way to the Frio River now slow down to view crosses set up at the entrance to the small town; the “Uvalde Strong” written in chipped paint on storefronts; and the abandoned Robb Elementary School building, which remains shuttered and guarded daily by state troopers.

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“Aramés, aramás, todavía nada más, ven aquí, ven acá, aire frío, aire mío, aramés, aramás,” the nagual continued, even as his eyes rolled into the back of his head and his long ears perked up and flapped loudly.

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