Examples of “freeze” in a Sentence

verb To turn solid from cold, or to lower something's temperature until it does.

• Water freezes when the temperature drops below zero degrees Celsius.
• The pond froze solid enough to skate on by January.
• She froze the leftover soup in small containers for later.

verb To suddenly become motionless, often from fear or surprise.

• He froze when he saw the snake coiled by his foot.

verb Of a machine, program, or system, to stop responding.

• The app keeps freezing whenever I try to open my photos.
• If the screen freezes, hold the power button until it restarts.
• My laptop froze right in the middle of the video call.

verb To stop something, such as prices, wages, or assets, from changing or moving.

• The council voted to freeze rents for the whole of next year.
• The company decided to freeze salaries until business improved.
• The government froze the bank accounts linked to the fraud investigation.

noun A period of very cold weather, or an official halt on something changing.

• A hard freeze overnight killed the tender plants in the allotment.
• The union asked for an end to the pay freeze.
• The company announced a hiring freeze until the new budget was approved.