below zero
Example Sentences
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When the temperature was well below zero, Freidenberg recalls, the unheated communal apartment on the floor above “flooded us with excrement.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
With his breath condensing in clouds in temperatures double figures below zero, a foreman summed the attitude that is common here, when I asked him why Russia was attacking them.
From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026
Bacteria are remarkably adaptable, thriving in some of the harshest places on Earth, from boiling hot springs to deep freezes far below zero.
From Science Daily • Feb. 21, 2026
“If we go for a walk, he’s a captive audience, but it’s been below zero here. So sometimes, I’ll interrupt ‘Jeopardy,’” she said.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 10, 2026
There we were, all five of us standing around a car with the temperature about a million degrees below zero and each and every one of us crying! “ ’top! ’top!”
From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis
