How to Use brain freeze in a Sentence

brain freeze

noun
Definition of brain freezenext
  • Ira, that must’ve been a pretty bad brain freeze for you on that trip.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Even the Bold North can get a brain freeze just standing outside.
    — Star Tribune, 14 Feb. 2021
  • What if this was a glimpse into my future, not an hour of brain freeze but days on end?
    — Max, Longreads, 4 Oct. 2019
  • In Laguna Beach, the air can be 90 degrees in April, but the water is still cold — brain freeze cold.
    — David Hansen, latimes.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • So cheers, and sip carefully, my friends. Because brain freeze.
    — Emily Spicer, ExpressNews.com, 18 June 2019
  • But all this came back to mind over the past few days, after Rick Perry's famous brain freeze during the recent debate.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2011
  • At the very same moment, in a burst of Boylean magical realism, the world has a collective brain freeze, erasing all traces of the Fab Four.
    — Robert Sullivan, Vogue, 17 May 2019
  • Call it a Freudian slip or a brain freeze or history having its revenge.
    — New York Times, 8 June 2022
  • This fact really captures our hardy nature: Even snow and windchills can’t keep us from brain freezes if the payoff is sweet bliss.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2019
  • Jorge Serrador , who carried out the research, speculates that brain freeze is a self-defense mechanism for the brain.
    — Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 25 Apr. 2012
  • Its warmth is thought to help your blood vessels return to normal, essentially turning the brain freeze into a brain thaw.
    — Washington Post, 20 July 2021
  • The neurologist has seen case reports where brain freezes were even caused by inhaling cold air such as during ice skating.
    — Heidi Mitchell, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2017
  • The Times’ Lucas Kwan Peterson tried a brain freeze-inducing 45 drinks to complete the ultimate ranking.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2023
  • During such moments of brain freeze, your correspondent’s dog has a habit of displaying a carousel of tricks, with streaks of drool flying across her ever-more desperate face.
    — The Economist, 19 June 2020
  • The low-calorie ice cream–maker, which didn’t exist before 2012, has given the ice-cream industry a brain freeze, forcing its competitors to remake their strategies in the mold of its success.
    — Heather Schwedel, Slate Magazine, 13 Aug. 2017
  • The architects of policy must demonstrate strategic and practical flexibility, not ideological brain freeze.
    — WSJ, 15 Dec. 2021

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