How to Use ice floe in a Sentence

ice floe

noun

• On the river, ice floes break and jostle in the current.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2023
• Two of the tourists were floating in the water, while the other was found on an ice floe.
  — Fox News, 1 Aug. 2019
• In one world, the Akili rides an ice floe along a river.
  — Sarah Deweerdt, Science | AAAS, 22 June 2018
• Luke sees Thomas drifting out into the bay on an ice floe.
  — Christopher Tayler, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
• During the winter, the artists watch bald eagles float by on ice floes.
  — Eben Shapiro, Time, 10 May 2018
• But first, scientists will have to find the perfect ice floe.
  — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2019
• Winter has brought plenty of shivers to Texas this year, but there is at least one pearl to be found in the ice floe.
  — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Jan. 2018
• The big waters of Lake Erie will beckon once the remaining ice floes are gone.
  — cleveland.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• The Polarstern’s crew moored the ship to a large ice floe in October 2019, and the ship has been moving with it ever since.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 15 Mar. 2020
• The ice floe had broken off near Catawba Island, close to the Lake Erie islands.
  — Jane Morice | [e-mail], cleveland, 6 Feb. 2022
• According to the outlet, two of the bodies were floating in the water near the toe of Valdez Glacier, while the third body was found on an ice floe.
  — Eric Todisco, PEOPLE.com, 31 July 2019
• Steamboats and barges getting stuck in jagged ice floes, or even sinking.
  — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 19 Jan. 2024
• In early October, the ship reached the Arctic sea ice edge, and the crew then froze their ship into an ice floe.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 21 Sep. 2020
• At one point Valeri let Oleg steer, and the boy ran the stern of the boat into an ice floe, bending the engine’s propeller.
  — Longreads, 2 Mar. 2022
• They often are found at the outer margins of shifting ice floes.
  — Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2019
• An ice floe is a floating sheet of ice that breaks away from a larger ice formation.
  — Alex Sundby, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2024
• At a thick ice floe, the crew gets to disembark for a brief moment of freedom from the vessel confines.
  — Hal Bernton, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Oct. 2021
• They often are found at the outer margins of shifting ice floes and rarely in areas of dense pack ice, NOAA says.
  — Washington Post, 13 June 2019
• According to some of the Russian fishermen, by the time they had been rescued the rift between the ice floe and the coast was already 660 feet wide.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Jan. 2020
• Aiming for land When the Endurance was crushed, the crew had to get themselves to safety, or die on an ice floe adrift somewhere in the Southern Ocean.
  — Daniella McCahey, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2023
• Navigators will scout for an ice floe that is both young and sturdy.
  — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2019
• The edge of an ice floe was illuminated by bow lights piercing the morning darkness of the Bering Sea.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2022
• Scientists flew by helicopter or sailed by dinghy to ice floes in the Fram Strait to scoop snow with a clean mug and a steel spoon or soup ladle.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2019
• On day seven of the expedition, our pilot, Martin, takes us a full 50 miles north of the ships, to where the ice floes turn to solid pack ice.
  — Christian Åslund, National Geographic, 2 July 2019
• In the Antarctic Ocean, orcas famously create waves to wash seals off ice floes.
  — Victoria Sayo Turner, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 July 2023
• What are some of your fondest memories? Holding a baby seal in my arms on an ice floe.
  — A-LIST, 19 Oct. 2017
• The large ice floe comprising the field was as close as possible to the geographic North Pole.
  — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2022
• The guide said there were two bodies in the water, according to Pierce, adding that two bodies were found floating on the water and the third was on an ice floe.
  — CBS News, 31 July 2019
• Whatever happens to the ice floes, though, an election might not even crack Brexit.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2019
• Small ice floes on the Potomac River are common, but the large ice dams near Washington are somewhat rare.
  — Kevin Ambrose, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2018

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024