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Cold wave   /koʊld weɪv/   Listen
Cold wave

noun
1.
A wave of unusually cold weather.





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"Cold wave" Quotes from Famous Books



... heavy, but he did not dream his news meant that before the day was over we would be bankrupt and not able to pay fifteen cents on the dollar. However, he knew enough to throw him into a fever of fright. He watched my calmness with terror. "Coal stocks are dropping like a thermometer in a cold wave," he said, like a fireman at a sleeper in ...
— The Deluge • David Graham Phillips
... just before he swung prancing Prince around and jogged up Poetry's lane to the house, was, "Well, I'll see you boys in the morning at school.... I'm going to ride over now and get the fire started. I let it go out over Saturday to save fuel.... But the weather report is for a cold wave tonight, so I think I'll get the fire going good, and it'll be cozy as a bug in a rug tomorrow ...
— Shenanigans at Sugar Creek • Paul Hutchens
... THE cold wave that was ushered in that December morning was the beginning of a long series of days that vied with each other as to which could induce the mercury to drop the lowest. The descent of the temperature seemed to have a like effect on the barrel ...
— Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch • Alice Caldwell Hegan


Words linked to "Cold wave" :   wave


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