hoar

Example Sentences

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Bernadette Benz waited for a day with hoar frost before taking her picture called Frosted Silver Birch which won the Trees, Woods and Forests category.

From BBC • Feb. 2, 2023

After all, the Japanese poem style lends itself to spare reflections on nature, crystalline musings on blossoms, songbirds or hoar frost.

From Washington Post • Mar. 6, 2022

“There’s a potential avalanche layer, for sure,” Stimberis says, noting a layer created by freezing rain and another by surface hoar, or, in laymen’s terms, a gnarly frost.

From Washington Times • Jan. 28, 2017

Here’s a Miniature Crystalline Forest of hoar frost, which forms when water vapor in the air condenses directly into ice.

From Scientific American • Jan. 25, 2014

Hoist the hoar sun to welcome morning’s minions.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White