The man turned the key switch one more time and the elevator froze in position with the doors open.

Some slaughter their animals when the time is right and then freeze the parts immediately.

Not enough time to re-bond, and they'll freeze when we start recording.

I was just thinking how easy it would be if time froze now.

There was an instant then in which time froze.

Everything seemed to stop for a moment, as if time had frozen solid.

Indeed, much of Lethem seems as if time had frozen for 20 or 30 years.

In addition, time froze: scenes and plots have been recycled from the past.

Just as with the housing market, the good times ended when the economy fell into recession and the credit markets froze.

But once you've gone past that and you just get used to it, time sort of freezes on you.