How to Use subzero in a Sentence

subzero

adjective
  • The doctor takes these eggs and puts them in a subzero freezer to preserve them.
    — Colleen Stinchcombe, SELF, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Come up with the title of a good piece of music for this subzero merry-go-round.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Doing action scenes in subzero weather is not easy and not good for your health, that's for sure.
    — EW.com, 1 Aug. 2024
  • This is a warmup from last week's subzero temperatures and snow.
    — Leah Olajide, Detroit Free Press, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Hargrave shot that part of the sequence over three nights in subzero temperatures.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 21 June 2023
  • One shopper noted that the pants even kept them warm while running in subzero temperatures.
    — Gabriella Maestri, Travel + Leisure, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Nothing polar, no more subzero weather is imminent, but a few more days in the 30s with slush?
    — Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Cold snaps, like this month’s stretch of subzero temperatures, pose their own threats when already leaky systems encounter main breaks.
    — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 26 Feb. 2021
  • But for Alankar, the downward pull comes principally from those subzero real rates.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2020
  • The first snowfall of the season has brought subzero temperatures to a city plunged into darkness and cold by the attacks.
    — Kostiantyn Khudov, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2022
  • How does a call from a woman at a bus stop in subzero temperatures not classify as high priority?
    — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Some evenings my father would return home with a nose like Rudolph’s, near-frostbitten from hours filling sausage casings in a subzero icebox.
    — Gabriel H. Sanchez, New York Times, 11 June 2024
  • February's spasm of subzero weather was a reminder that many winters are trending milder, with sudden outbreaks of bitter cold.
    — Todd Nelson, Star Tribune, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Here's a list of the longest consecutive stretches of subzero low temps at MSP.
    — Todd Nelson, Star Tribune, 17 Feb. 2021
  • After an earthquake in Tibet, rescuers worked in subzero conditions to find survivors.
    — The Staff Of The Morning, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
  • The frozen embryos were stored at subzero temperatures, freeze-burning the patient’s hand and causing the patient to drop the embryos on the floor, destroying them.
    — Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Coloradans bundling up ahead of this weekend’s arctic blast should also plan on keeping their homes cozy, particularly for water pipes that can freeze and burst during subzero cold snaps.
    — Katie Langford, The Denver Post, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Ready to load iron ore pellets, the laker arrived in subzero temperatures, which didn’t stop visitors from bracing the cold to photograph the ship’s arrival.
    — Wyatt Buckner, Twin Cities, 17 Dec. 2024
  • There were no days with subzero temperatures and rain fell on Christmas Eve, only the third such holiday with no snow on the ground in 82 years.
    — Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 3 Jan. 2024
  • First, the tiny robotic flyer had to survive subzero temperatures on its first night alone without Perseverance.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Apr. 2021
  • There are few precedents in roughly 5,000 years of economic history for the widespread emergence of subzero debt in recent years.
    — WSJ, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Vladislav Duda, 28, was rescued from a mountain ravine in subzero temperatures alongside his months-old kitten Peach.
    — Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Bronson said that in the absence of a dedicated winter shelter, hundreds of unhoused people could be exposed to subzero temperatures this winter.
    — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 25 July 2023
  • In February 2021, this system collapsed amidst days of subzero temperatures, freezing rain, and record snowfall around the state.
    — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The system, known as a polar vortex, is forecast to bring subzero temperatures to the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and deep into the South.
    — Janet Loehrke, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2025
  • On Thursday, water pipes, some of which were reinforced with metal, burst at the seams and in some cases sent water jetting through the ground as frigid, subzero temperatures reached levels near 32 degrees.
    — Jake Dima, Washington Examiner, 21 Feb. 2021
  • Emergency Blankets Growing up in Montana, where subzero temperatures don’t keep us from going to church, work, or school, I was taught to always keep blankets in the car.
    — Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 14 Jan. 2024
  • As is typical, the coldest weather will be over the northern Plains and upper Midwest, where some spots may see subzero high temperatures next Sunday and Monday.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Yet in the previous episode, everyone is pretty blasé about it; aside from a phone call to the hospital, Lund’s ability to survive after being out in subzero temperatures for several days is not even discussed.
    — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Though no part of Texas is expected to reach subzero temperatures, the latest forecast suggests some will come dangerously close, with parts of the Panhandle dropping as low as 1 degree.
    — Brandi D. Addison, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025

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