Sentence examples for frigid period from inspiring English sources
Of the region's two seasons, one is a dry and moderately warm spell lasting roughly from April to November; the second is a wet, moderately cool, but rarely frigid period extending from November to April.
According to a geology lecturer on our voyage, an ice-core sample drilled nearby in the 1970's shows that the Erebus and Terror entered the frozen north at the close of a 30- to 50-year frigid period unequaled in a 700-year span.
While scientists have not proven that low sunspot activity directly caused the "Little Ice Age," and say other factors may have been involved in plunging Europe into the frigid period, they do believe that fewer sunspots may mean less solar energy reached Earth.
Mr. Edgar said that "even in the most frigid periods of the Cold War, we never gave the C.I.A. such sweeping and secret policing powers over American citizens".
Chronicles written by religious men in Ireland hundreds of years ago have helped scientists draw a link between frigid periods of the country's history and volcanic eruptions.
It is not yet officially winter, but officials warn that a prolonged period of frigid temperatures could push supplies to a danger point.
Both Sedna and its small sidekick probably belong to the inner part of the Oort cloud, the frigid reservoir of long-period comets that can dazzle us when they dash toward the sun, and suggest that many other far-flung objects await discovery.
The seal population thins out during this period, and the frigid ocean currents during the southern hemisphere's summer keeps most great whites away; sharks, like people, prefer temperate waters.
That period was marked by frigid bouts of weather that devastated crops and led to periodic famines.
Despite the frigid weather in the US, the period of December thru February was the 8th warmest globally, and California had its warmest winter on record, worsening an already catastrophic drought.
Over the course of this period, it flipped from the frigid wasteland of deepest and darkest ice age to the – broadly speaking – balmy, temperate world upon which our civilisation has developed and thrived.
