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How to pronounce hoarfrost in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms frost, hoar, rime
Type of ice, water ice

Examples of hoarfrost

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Hoarfrost was a member of the 1971 U.S. table tennis team.
From the omaha.com
Amid the hoarfrost of the Cold War, Viren was easy to vilify.
From the theatlantic.com
Now I imagine my sprouting hairs not as miniature trees but as flowers hiding beneath the hoarfrost, waiting to emerge.
From the thestate.com
The group discovered chambers encrusted with crystalline hoarfrost so delicate it shattered under the slightest touch.
From the thenewstribune.com
Hoarfrost looks like needles of ice that have sprouted from the branches, leaves or other elevated surfaces on which it has formed.
From the kansas.com
Trees throughout the Wichita metropolitan area glittered with ice crystals Tuesday morning, as a layer of hoarfrost applied a fresh glaze to the region.
From the kansas.com
Crunching through hoarfrost with the poem in my pocket, I'm sure that somewhere north of the DMZ somebody else must also be cursing the cold.
From the time.com
Suddenly they wake up one morning to find sunlight sparkling off the hoarfrost and a silvery net of ice crystals on the puddles in the driveway.
From the time.com
Conditions are ideal for the formation of hoarfrost on cold clear nights, with a very light wind that is able to circulate more humidified air around the snow surface.
From the en.wikipedia.org
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  • Frost: ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)
  • Frost is the solid deposition of water vapor from saturated air. It is formed when solid surfaces are cooled to below the dew point of the adjacent air as well as below the freezing point of water. Frost crystals' size differ depending on time and water vapor available. ...
  • Dew-drops which have undergone deposition and frozen into ice crystals to form a white deposit on an exposed surface, when the air is cold and moist
  • Another name for frost. A deposit of hoarfrost occurs when air with a dew point below freezing is brought to saturation by cooling.
  • Fernlike crystals of ice that form by deposition of water vapor on twigs, tree branches, and other vegetation.
  • Hoarfrost is a uniform thin white deposit of fine crystalline texture, which forms on exposed surfaces during below-freezing, calm, cloudless nights with the air at the surface close to saturation but with no precipitation. ...