Colder than cold

Usage examples of subzero.

In Verrie Myers's canary-yellow Olds convertible cruising lower Willowsville at dusk, at night, rain-pelting November wind, in yellow-tinctured fog, in a brisk falling snow, like clumps of white blossoms, in subzero crystalline air that froze your eyelashes, like a ghost ship under a spell to forever cruise the lower village, Water Street south of Main, in Verrie's beautiful birthday car, we smoked.

The summer of his twelfth birthday was humid and sticky and made one almost yearn for the subzero cold snaps of the long winter months.

Hot years through the eighties and nineties were singled out, but not the all-time lows in Alaska and subzero conditions across Scandinavia and in Moscow.

There were seven gold hash marks on her cuff, her shoulder carried three chevrons and rockers centered on the ancient golden anchor of a boatswains mate instead of the star other branches used to indicate a senior master chief petty officer, and her eyes swept the frozen bay like a subzero wind.

The blue, still, subzero miniseason of February passed and brought on the alternating rains and freezes of March, potholes, and those orange roadside signs which pay homage to the Great God BUMP.

My arithmetic skills were subzero and my social skills were subpoor.