She drifted to sleep lulled by the night wind and the soft pulse of heat slowly thawing her feet.

He maintained his silence through the first half-cup, as she slowly thawed and slowly grew used to his presence across from her.

Now, as it slowly thaws, it seems at times dated and tinged with a new anxiety.

They should be thawed slowly, in the plastic package.

My slowly thawing bones give me a very personal interest in that cloak of yours.

Relations slowly thawed through the 2000s, and by 2011 the two countries enjoyed a close friendship once more.

A gutted marmot, dripping blood, hung from the rafters near the door, slowly thawing.

Lucy tried not to be pushy, and Josie slowly thawed.

He had discovered and pulled from a slowly thawing freezer a whole chicken, which now lay wrapped in a sack on the pavement beside him.

I took my seat by the fire, and the roaring heat of it slowly thawed the ice at the marrow of my bones.