How to Use floe in a Sentence

floe

noun

• They are trapped in the floes of the Far North, and their courage is failing.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2017
• The Russian ship will transfer its equipment to the floe and turn around.
  — Henry Fountain, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2019
• Meanwhile, along the sides of the strait, floes of ice were moving by rather quickly.
  — Chris Mooney, Alaska Dispatch News, 19 Aug. 2017
• To the untrained eye, the floe appears vast and unchanging.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 Jan. 2020
• Just vast floes of sea ice and the two Russian submarines that had made the arduous trek to stake a claim to the North Pole.
  — Zoë Schlanger, Quartz, 10 July 2019
• The bears travel around the ocean looking for a safe place to land as their ice floe gets smaller and smaller.
  — Deborah Ellis, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2016
• Analyses of ice paths from previous years suggest that the ideal floe lies about 335 miles east of the North Pole.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2019
• Players tilt a tablet device back and forth to steer the floe, avoiding icebergs and icy walls on either side.
  — Sarah Deweerdt, Science | AAAS, 22 June 2018
• Or maybe a little detached, like the floe that carried all those winter anglers across the lake 30 years ago.
  — Will Ryan, Field & Stream, 20 Feb. 2020
• Some of it was covered in sand and dirt from crashing against the coast, while larger floes had pools of turquoise meltwater on top.
  — Frank Jordans, The Seattle Times, 26 July 2017
• And today it is filled with young floes of churning nitrogen ice.
  — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 26 Mar. 2020
• On a bone-chilling afternoon, teams of two divers dove among the floes while a third diver sat ready in case his help was required.
  — Author: Dan Lamothe, Alaska Dispatch News, 5 Sep. 2017
• On the wide screen above, killer whales in the wild work in tandem to manufacture waves, dislodging their prey — a lone seal perched on an ice floe.
  — Lori Weisberg, latimes.com, 25 May 2017
• In the Chukchi Sea northwest of Alaska this month, which should be brimming with floes, its limits likely won’t be tested.
  — Dan Joling, chicagotribune.com, 21 Nov. 2019
• As well, two of the three bears frolic on ice floes, which grizzlies reportedly never do.
  — Michael Engelhard, Smithsonian, 31 May 2017
• Winds sometimes even carry ice floes with newborns into the heart of St. Petersburg.
  — Kaido Haagen, National Geographic, 9 May 2016
• Choosing the right floe had its challenges, as the ice in the region proved to be thinner and less stable than the mission’s organizers had expected.
  — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 10 Jan. 2020
• But few landscapes are more dynamic than the Arctic ice cap, a mosaic of small floes only a few kilometers across.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 Jan. 2020
• Ice floes could come rushing down previously frozen rivers, damaging hulls and props, and even toppling canoes and kayaks.
  — Dave Orrick, Twin Cities, 17 Feb. 2017
• As part of the expedition, the Polarstern anchored to a large floe last fall and set up a camp on the ice, creating a small scientific village protected from wandering polar bears by alarms and scouts.
  — Frank Jordans, Star Tribune, 12 Oct. 2020
• Icebreaker, so named because each turbine's foundation has been designed to withstand lake ice floes, formally asked for bids for part of the project earlier this summer.
  — John Funk, cleveland.com, 21 Aug. 2017
• The multimillion-dollar plane was damaged during the incident and can't fly on its own power off the floe, a Bald Mountain representative said Wednesday.
  — Laurel Andrews, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Mar. 2018
• First, Schmidt needed a method to distinguish algae growing under the ice from those that thrive in open seas and in the transitional areas in between—a seasonal landscape of frozen floes and melting ice known as the marginal ice zone (MIZ).
  — Randall Hyman, Science | AAAS, 6 Apr. 2018
• Pictures shared on social media and by local emergency services also show sprawling floes of ice cluttering up beaches, roads, and even some lakeside residences.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 25 Feb. 2019
• And, if Minervudottir’s tale never quite coheres, never quite touches the rest of the book, then her very ice-floe remoteness becomes a stark reminder of our society’s detachment from a world in which a woman could simply and happily be left alone.
  — Naomi Alderman, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2018
• In mid-November, a violent storm opened up a new crack between the Polarstern and its floe, knocking over a 100-foot meteorological tower and threatening to snap power cables.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Mar. 2020
• There are reminders everywhere: buildings buckling, floes of concrete and brick spilling across sidewalks, familiar streets bifurcated by strands of red and yellow emergency tape and patrolled by soldiers in uniform.
  — Azam Ahmed and Paulina Villegas, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2017
• A gigantic new research submarine designed by Russia will travel underneath ice floes, mapping its underwater surroundings with a pair of huge plane-like wings.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 23 May 2017
• A Columbia professor eagerly signs a petition to discourage Canadians from putting their elders on ice floes.
  — Max Fisher and Amanda Taub, New York Times, 30 June 2017

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