Example Sentences

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Things looked brighter then, less than a decade after the Iron Curtain collapsed and relations between Moscow and the West had thawed.

From Washington Times • Mar. 16, 2022

“It had thawed, everything was covered in mould, it was pretty disgusting, and yeah, everything had been lost.”

From Nature • Jan. 29, 2017

Then coming down, his lips had thawed into a smile.

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2015

BBC United Nations correspondent Nick Bryant said relations between the UK and Iran had "thawed considerably" in recent months.

From BBC • Sep. 22, 2014

Gene Johnson, the civilian scientist, had thawed a little bit of Nurse Mayinga’s frozen blood and had injected it into the monkeys.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston