How to Use ice shelf in a Sentence

ice shelf

noun

• The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf in the world.
  — Nala Rogers, Discover Magazine, 14 Jan. 2019
• The Larsen C is the next ice shelf in line and by far the largest of the three.
  — Sarah Gibbens, Environment, 28 Dec. 2020
• The key to the future of Thwaites is the ice shelf and its tongue.
  — Arkansas Online, 4 Feb. 2022
• The calving reduced the size of the ice shelf by some 12%.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2018
• The faster movement of ice causes the ice shelf to stretch and crack.
  — Andrew Freedman, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Feb. 2020
• Think of the floating ice shelf as a dam that holds back the ice sheet on land.
  — WIRED, 27 Oct. 2023
• The ice shelf has now been reduced in area by about 43%.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2020
• The dead buck was stuck fast, his snout buried firm under the ice shelf.
  — Nick Fasciano, Outdoor Life, 8 Feb. 2024
• There’s no way to know what an iceberg of this size will do to the ice shelf.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 26 Feb. 2019
• The study is unlikely to be the last word on the fate of the West Antarctic ice shelves.
  — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2023
• So what are DJs blasting 10 miles across the ice shelf?
  — Lukas Harnisch, SPIN, 20 Jan. 2022
• The ice shelf is one of the restraining forces holding the ice sheet back.
  — Ted Scambos, The Conversation, 7 June 2022
• Part of what holds it in place is an ice shelf that juts out onto the surface of the ocean.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 15 Feb. 2023
• The bit of a glacier that’s resting on land is known as an ice sheet, and the bit floating on the ocean is the ice shelf.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 16 Feb. 2022
• The ice shelf on the upwind side of the hole is the perfect spot to set a couple of the duck decoys as resters.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 3 Dec. 2019
• Much of that loss is because warmer ocean water has caused the ice shelves to melt.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 7 Feb. 2020
• As this grounding line recedes, bits of the ice shelf break off.
  — The Economist, 17 Aug. 2019
• Now climate change has turned the ice shelf into a threat - to Pettit’s field work, and to the world.
  — Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Dec. 2021
• Now climate change has turned the ice shelf into a threat — to Pettit’s field work, and to the world.
  — Sarah Kaplan, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Dec. 2021
• And that could be bad news for the glacial ice sheet’s connection to the floating ice shelf.
  — WIRED, 8 Nov. 2022
• One by one, the ice shelves on the east side of the peninsula began to collapse.
  — National Geographic, 15 Nov. 2016
• This week a giant city-sized iceberg split off an ice shelf in what part of the world?
  — CNN, 26 Jan. 2023
• The holes were roughly 200 meters deep in the Antarctic ice shelf.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 23 Dec. 2021
• That could take hundreds of years, but the ice shelf could fall apart much sooner.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2023
• 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 shelf at the end of the glacier buttresses the river of ice, slowing its flow into the ocean.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 15 Nov. 2013
• Scientists had been seeing the ice shelf shrink a bit since the 1970s, Neff said.
  — Seth Borenstein, chicagotribune.com, 25 Mar. 2022
• Meanwhile, ocean water seeps beneath the ice shelf and washes up against the base of the glacier.
  — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 4 Apr. 2018
• This erosion lets the ice flow faster, pushing against the floating ice shelf.
  — Ted Scambos, The Conversation, 7 June 2022
• Some sections build up ice shelves, but the creek is still flowing and the fish are still biting.
  — Brittany Anas, The Denver Post, 12 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024