How to Use ice sheet in a Sentence

ice sheet

noun

• But as the Southern Hemisphere warms—and the ice sheet melts at faster rates—the risk could be rising.
  — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 27 Aug. 2020
• The complete melting of an ice sheet should correlate to an incremental rise in sea level.
  — Carly Miller, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
• The loss of the Thwaites glacier could trigger the broader collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2020
• Scientists also have also warned about the potential consequences if the Greenland ice sheet were to melt.
  — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 20 Sep. 2024
• The two glaciers effectively act as arteries connecting the West Antarctic ice sheet to the ocean.
  — Helen Regan, CNN, 15 Sep. 2020
• Studies show that as the Greenland ice sheet melts and dumps lighter freshwater into the North Atlantic, this current is slowing down.
  — Andrew Freedman, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Sep. 2020
• Around 34 million years ago a permanent ice sheet began forming on Antarctica following a warm period.
  — Jennifer Frazer, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2020
• And glacial periods could cause an expansion of the ice sheet, covering 50% of North America's habitable land.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 1 Sep. 2020
• Researchers programmed Curly with physics models that simulate the ice sheet, and then trained Curly to use its test throws at the beginning of the match to adjust its models accordingly.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Sep. 2020
• Antarctica contains more than half of the world's freshwater in its sprawling, frozen ice sheet, but humanity's decisions over the next century could send that water irreversibly into the sea.
  — Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 30 Sep. 2020
• The territory's ice sheet is the second biggest in the world behind Antarctica's, and its annual melt contributes more than a millimeter rise to sea levels every year.
  — Helen Regan, CNN, 15 Sep. 2020
• Juno will bring new tools with which to study this ice sheet.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 29 Sep. 2022
• For the scientists out on the ice sheet, the warmth has been alarming.
  — René Marsh and Angela Fritz, CNN, 20 July 2022
• The ice shelf is one of the restraining forces holding the ice sheet back.
  — Ted Scambos, The Conversation, 7 June 2022
• The method is ice sheets, which are bed linens dunked in ice water and wrapped around the body.
  — Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 17 July 2024
• The seven years with the greatest melting of the ice sheets have occurred in the last decade.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 21 Apr. 2023
• Glaciers are riddled with cracks in the ice sheet known as crevasses.
  — Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 3 Feb. 2024
• The weight of the ice sheet has had an incredible impact on the bedrock.
  — David Nikel, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
• Think of an ice shelf as a cork that’s keeping the rest of the glacier, that ice sheet, from sliding into the ocean.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 16 Feb. 2022
• The ice sheet would have dwindled slowly, like an ice cube moved from the freezer to the fridge.
  — Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2021
• In Greenland, these warm rivers in the sky also play a role in melting the ice sheet.
  — Kasha Patel, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2021
• The 75-year-old made just two attempts at sliding a curling stone across the ice sheet at the Oval.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 May 2022
• The ice sheet was named for that group: El Glaciar de los Polacos.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2023
• His staff was able to relieve some of the pressure against the dam by making large cuts across the ice sheet.
  — CBS News, 11 Apr. 2024
• The ice sheet at Pemaquid measured as much as two miles thick.
  — Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2021
• The ice sheets have barely moved due to a lack of wind this week, officials said.
  — Liza Esquibias, Peoplemag, 7 Feb. 2024
• But warmer ocean water is also eroding the ice sheet around the edges.
  — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 29 July 2021
• These glaciers make up about 12% of the entire ice sheet and hold enough ice to raise sea levels by about 4.3 feet.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2024
• The plan called for boring thousands of miles of tunnels into the Greenland ice sheet.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024
• Imagine sitting on a large couch cushion—in this analogy, your weight is like the ice sheet, and the cushion is the Earth’s crust.
  — Rudy Molinek, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024