: a sweet flavored frozen food containing cream or butterfat and usually eggs
Examples of ice-cream in a Sentence
Noun
What flavor of ice cream do you like?
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Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
Golden Hay Time is a riff on a classic Australian ice-cream bar with toasted hay and grilled pretzel ice cream.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 17 Oct. 2024
Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 29 Oct. 2024
Head here for coffee, grab-and-go food items, and ice cream, as well as Stonecliffe sweatshirts and other merch and necessities.
—Beth Luberecki, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
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Adjective
As outré, or even profane, as dirty soda might sound, there are plenty of precedents: ice-cream floats; Italian sodas; egg creams, which despite the name contain only seltzer, chocolate or vanilla syrup, and milk.
—Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
Golden Hay Time is a riff on a classic Australian ice-cream bar with toasted hay and grilled pretzel ice cream.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 17 Oct. 2024
Noun
But how about something as simple and nostalgic as a bowl of ice cream?
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 29 Oct. 2024
Head here for coffee, grab-and-go food items, and ice cream, as well as Stonecliffe sweatshirts and other merch and necessities.
—Beth Luberecki, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
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“Ice-cream.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice-cream. Accessed 12 Nov. 2024.
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ice cream
noun
(ˈ)ī-ˈskrēm 
ˈī-ˌskrēm
: a frozen food containing sweetened and flavored cream or butterfat
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