Sentence examples for roads froze from inspiring English sources

During the night, the wind shifted, the roads froze hard, and Washington was able to steal away from camp (leaving his fires deceptively burning), march around Cornwallis's rear, and fall at daybreak upon the three British regiments at Princeton.

But let's just say, out of the blue, a whole road freezes up — pulls frost for miles.

Something black and furry had darted out into the road, frozen in Roy's headlights, and tumbled out of view.

5 snowy roads! 4 icy roads! 3 frozen deer! 2 turtledoves!

The area was fortunate in the storm's timing, well enough before winter to keep the ground and roads from freezing.

Rail companies on busy commuter routes in the south-east were operating emergency timetables, and forecasters warned of widespread icy roads and freezing fog.

Risking drowning on shaky sea crossings at night; slipping from the bottom of lorries on to hard, alien roads; perhaps freezing to death inside lorries.

They include rainforest residents like the Kamayurá who face dwindling food supplies; remote Arctic communities where the only roads were frozen rivers that are now flowing most of the year; and residents of low-lying islands whose land is threatened by rising seas.

Instead, temperatures dropped very quickly and caused the slush on sidewalks and roads to freeze into thick, rock hard sheets of ice.

Because air can travel underneath the road surface, as well as over it, any moisture on the road will freeze well before it would off of the road.

The US network CBS reported that Mr Mandela was kept by the side of the road in freezing temperatures for 40 minutes as the team waited for a replacement ambulance.