How to Use ice over/up in a Sentence

ice over/up

phrasal verb

• Then the piece is slid across the ice over to the circle.
  — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Feb. 2022
• One day, Oleg wandered across a frozen lake and broke through the ice up to his shins.
  — Longreads, 2 Mar. 2022
• In our current house in LaGrange, the ice over the porch was bad but the one above the bedroom was worse.
  — Doug George, chicagotribune.com, 23 Feb. 2021
• In these areas, the rain may just run off rather than ice over surfaces.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2022
• The only drawbacks are that lines still ice up during the day and holes freeze at night.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2023
• Heat the dent using a hairdryer, cover the area with a sheet of aluminum foil, and rub dry ice over it.
  — Jeff Harper, chicagotribune.com, 11 Mar. 2021
• Capobianco sent a long pass from the other end of the ice up to Eriksson who took the puck toward the net for his goal.
  — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 18 Apr. 2022
• On heavy powder days, the slide-out mechanism can ice up.
  — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 25 Jan. 2023
• Ice will be thinner where there is an active beaver run; sometimes there will just be a skim of ice over the top.
  — Joseph Biebert, Outdoor Life, 3 Apr. 2023
• At one point, employees even went out to purchase bags of ice over the weekend to keep food safe.
  — Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 7 Mar. 2023
• Hull also had several troubling episodes off the ice over the years.
  — Kevin Allen, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2023
• Williams: Literally, the glass of water next to my bed would ice over.
  — Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 12 May 2021
• If necessary, place a resealable bag filled with ice over the stain to harden the sap first.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Dec. 2021
• The remaining open ocean around the boat would ice over, and three million square miles of liquid would turn solid in the span of a few short weeks.
  — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 1 May 2022
• Ice that formed over those cracks in the road was less perfect than ice over the smooth asphalt, and was more vulnerable to forces from above.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Jan. 2022
• Will Cube's career be put on ice over his vaccine refusal?
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 22 Nov. 2022
• The skateway was created in 1971, when a team of NCC employees used brooms and shovels to clear a small section on the ice over the canal.
  — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2023
• If that happens, the models suggest the ice sheet could lose 14 trillion to 36 trillion tons of ice over the course of this century.
  — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2020
• He was last seen Tuesday night around 10:45 p.m. on foot, when the weather was continuing to ice over.
  — Dallas News, 1 Feb. 2023
• But as a look through NHL history shows, some truly horrendous teams have taken the ice over the years.
  — Jace Evans, USA TODAY, 2 Apr. 2021
• Heavy ice over southeast Minnesota with 2 inches of ice on wires near Winona.
  — Star Tribune, 21 Feb. 2021
• Glaciers form when snow is compacted into ice over hundreds of years.
  — Marissa Grunes, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
• After all, Bestgen said, bass evolved to endure waters that ice over in winter.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 19 July 2022
• This might occur because the thinner ice over a trench sags like a flimsy bridge; as the ice flexes downward, its bulging belly cracks open.
  — Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2022
• Outlying areas could see slick roads early in the day as moisture from Wednesday’s rain may ice over.
  — oregonlive, 18 Jan. 2023
• Does this year's dramatic drop mark a shift toward declining Antarctic sea ice over the long run?
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 23 Mar. 2022
• But the weather service said that worsening conditions could cause trees and power lines to ice over and lead to outages.
  — Dallas News, 23 Feb. 2022
• Monahon was told to pack her bags, and the next morning joined a group trying to navigate a safe route across the sea ice over eight days to resupply a tiny U.S. outpost.
  — Nick Perry, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Aug. 2023
• Meanwhile, snow and sleet up to an inch and ice up to a tenth of an inch are possible in Springfield, Missouri, and ice accumulation up to a tenth of an inch in St. Louis.
  — Rob Shackelford, CNN, 30 Jan. 2023
• Lines start to blur: calmness may edge into detachment; coolheadedness might ice over.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024