- present perfect progressive of thaw (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Although the Clooney wedding feels like an epochal moment — a mighty Arctic shelf collapsing into the sea — this world has been thawing for some time now.
From Washington Post
The icy mood between Mao's China and Paul's Vatican has been thawing ever since 1970, when China released Missionary Bishop James Walsh after twelve years' imprisonment.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since then, De Gaulle's icy isolationism has been thawing.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is a good deal warmer to-day, and has been thawing in the sun; if the cold and the siege had continued much longer, the Prussians would have found us all in bed.
From Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris by Labouchere, Henry
It has been thawing for two days and the trail may be obliterated.
From The Gold Hunters A Story of Life and Adventure in the Hudson Bay Wilds by Curwood, James Oliver
