How to Use dry ice in a Sentence

dry ice

noun

• That’s when the school turned to dry ice to deal with its groundhogs.
  — Hasan Dudar, Detroit Free Press, 31 Aug. 2017
• The chunk of dirt is then preserved on dry ice and sent back to the lab.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 June 2015
• Rather, the temperature of the dry ice seemed to be the key.
  — Sam Kean, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2017
• Pilots in sturdy airplanes would plunge into the eyewall and seed it with dry ice or silver iodide.
  — Sam Kean, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2017
• The changes could be forged by a layer of frozen carbon dioxide — dry ice — changing directly from solid to steam.
  — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 3 Feb. 2011
• Johnson even had some dishes shipped in dry ice from the West Coast to Charlotte so the kitchen could taste them.
  — Brendan Marks, charlotteobserver, 11 Sep. 2017
• But don't expect fantastical concoctions with fancy bitters served in beakers on a bed of dry ice.
  — Nneka McGuire, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2017
• The tiny blood siphons are attracted by the carbon dioxide that sublimates off the dry ice, like breath exhaled from a potential host.
  — Karla Moeller, Slate Magazine, 27 June 2017
• Fourteen thousand feet above him, his assistant was leaning out the plane’s window, tossing pellets of dry ice into a cloud.
  — Sam Kean, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2017
• Choi reports that optical engineer Jinyang Liang and his colleagues fired a green laser through a tunnel filled with smoke from dry ice.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 23 Jan. 2017
• The University of Michigan is catching heat for its decision to employ dry ice as a means to control its groundhog population on campus.
  — Hasan Dudar, Detroit Free Press, 31 Aug. 2017
• When the server brings it out, a fog of dry ice wafts from the edges of the dish.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 28 Nov. 2022
• Buy gel packs and block ice and, as the storm draws closer, dry ice.
  — Ann Maloney, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2022
• The gas puts the pop in soft drinks and the fizz in beer, and is turned into dry ice to keep food frozen.
  — Jesse Newman, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
• The four frozen caps were to be stored in a cooler filled with fifty pounds of dry ice.
  — Ann Patchett, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
• But add a little dry ice and a creepy punch bowl and you're all set!
  — Christopher Michel, Country Living, 3 Aug. 2022
• The video showed a disco ball, the Scales of Justice, test tubes, beakers, dry ice and a boomerang.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 22 Sep. 2021
• The burgers come freshly butchered and packed in dry ice.
  — Lauren Finney Harden, Southern Living, 15 Apr. 2024
• Its pasties are shipped nationwide to most of the U.S., frozen with dry ice.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 6 Dec. 2022
• It will be served in a porcelain tea pot with smoke from dry ice.
  — Dallas News, 27 July 2022
• The Post and Courier reports the brands could have been made with a propane torch or dry ice.
  — USA TODAY, 18 June 2019
• Having a few more crates of Alaskan seafood overnighted, just for the dry ice.
  — Scott Jacobson, The New Yorker, 3 July 2021
• Cookies, cakes and rolls sat on the counter while a shepherd’s pie sat in dry ice.
  — Cristóbal Reyes, orlandosentinel.com, 14 Nov. 2019
• Not gold leaf, not dry ice, not 50 shades of slider buns, not 50 Cent.
  — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Aug. 2022
• The ice cream is packed with dry ice to keep cold during shipping.
  — Endia Fontanez, The Arizona Republic, 1 Sep. 2023
• The lake could turn out to be frozen carbon dioxide, or dry ice.
  — Nishant Mohan, WSJ, 25 July 2018
• Add a chunk of dry ice to the drink for a smoky, boiling cauldron effect.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 12 Oct. 2020
• Walk around that area, take it all in, and maybe order a whole pie and ship it back here in dry ice.
  — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Feb. 2022
• The second type of snow found on the Red Planet’s surface is dry ice.
  — Maren Estrada, BGR, 28 Dec. 2022
• That view may now change thanks to new results that suggest dry ice can also shape the landscape.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 4 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024