Sentence examples for as a frost from inspiring English sources

If typical continuous concrete footings are used, they usually support a foundation wall that acts either as a retaining wall to form a basement or as a frost wall with earth on both sides.

Sometimes fins are spaced wider at the coil air inlet to act as a frost catcher to avoid obstruction of the air flow.

His hair was shorter and as white as a frost-covered lawn.

This experiment verified that granular waste is suitable for use as a frost-heave prevention replacement material.

Lobelia inflata is monocarpic and is capable of expressing either an annual or biennial life history; in the latter case, the plant overwinters as a frost-hardy rosette.

He never drank at the track (he hated a fogged mind), and that night, as he walked home from the station — late, with the streets dark and his mother waiting for him, even in her sleep — he felt a new clarity to his brain, as if a frost had settled on it.

He never drank at the track (he hated a fogged mind), and that night, as he walked home from the station late, with the streets dark and his mother waiting for him, even in her sleep he felt a new clarity to his brain, as if a frost had settled on it.

As winter comes – a frost perching on the town, hovering in the sky, then gobbling summer down – a man gets the urge to migrate.

Adapted from a tale by Tolstoy, it is as swift and wintry as a sudden frost.

"But lots of the groves are in hurricane territory now, and a hurricane can be just as deadly as a bad frost".

Johnson is at his most moving when he talks of his mismatched parents living together in a state of mutual solitude and when he defines melancholy as "a lazy frost, a numbness of the mind".