How to Use deice in a Sentence

deice

verb

• We watched while they deiced the plane before takeoff.
• The Flying Fortress hit the ground about 1,000 feet short of the runway, crashed into deicing storage tanks and burst into flames.
  — Gregory B. Hladky, courant.com, 17 Oct. 2019
• First departures of the day can generally be deiced and on their way.
  — WSJ, 14 Nov. 2018
• The biggest factor in flight delays at Denver is deicing.
  — Scott McCartney, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2018
• The airport does not deice aircraft or supply deicing fluid to the airlines.
  — Katherine Sayre, NOLA.com, 8 Dec. 2017
• Detroit is a cold place in December, and since ice and airplane control surfaces don't mix, a deicing stop on the way to the runway is often necessary.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2018
• Deicing protocols are in place so that will delay flights about 15 minutes, Montgomery said.
  — Kirk Mitchell, The Denver Post, 24 Mar. 2017
• When the weather takes a wintry turn, many cities and municipalities in North America rely on salt to deice their roads.
  — Jamie Summers, Philly.com, 8 Dec. 2017
• The city had deployed 55 plows and deicing trucks from the Portland Bureau of Transportation, as well as several trucks from the city water bureau that had been outfitted with plows.
  — Elliot Njus, OregonLive.com, 20 Feb. 2018
• Before heading to the plane, pilots use the iPads to check for operational alerts: a strike in Europe closing an airport, or a memo about deicing in winter conditions.
  — Jack Stewart, WIRED, 26 Apr. 2018
• But the rollout faltered last winter when deicing fluid seeped into antennae and scrambled the equipment on some aircraft.
  — Alison Sider, WSJ, 25 July 2018
• Those who ventured out experienced a sight Houston rarely sees - anti-freeze trucks out working to deice the roads, uncongested highways and closed overpasses due to ice.
  — Heather Leighton, Houston Chronicle, 16 Jan. 2018
• Airlines lose some high-paying business passengers who buy walk-up fares and incur extra costs from bringing in additional staff and deicing planes.
  — Doug Cameron, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2018
• One example: Delta spent more than $20 million last year to buy a dozen additional deicing trucks in Atlanta and build more deicing pads where airplanes get sprayed with chemicals that are collected in drains.
  — Scott McCartney, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2019
• Last winter, deicing fluid infiltrated some of the antennas and disrupted Wi-Fi service on board.
  — Ally Marotti, chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2018
• Airlines are deicing this morning but no major delays or cancellations due to weather.
  — Jesse Paul, The Denver Post, 29 Apr. 2017
• Alaska Airlines spokeswoman Bobbie Egan said the carrier had trouble getting some employees to the airport and that passengers faced delays because workers had to deice jets.
  — Manuel Valdes, Orange County Register, 6 Feb. 2017
• In addition to groundwater pumping, paved surfaces and deicing road salts have increased salt concentrations in bodies of freshwater across the United States, threatening the state of our drinking water at vast scales.
  — Theresa Laverty, Smithsonian, 2 May 2018
• However, Zaninovich said a preliminary analysis suggested the substance was deicing agent residue, which got into the ventilation system when the plane was sprayed in Seattle.
  — Jason Green, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2017
• Airline delays are likely due to deicing operations, poor visibility and a low cloud ceiling.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2018
• The Ohio Department of Transportation monitors pavement temperatures and considers what components need to go into salt for deicing.
  — Emily Bamforth, cleveland, 11 Nov. 2019

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024