How to Use icebound in a Sentence

icebound

adjective
  • Angnatok helps non-locals glean at least a little of what the icebound world means to Inuit.
    Matthew Halliday/undark, Popular Science, 29 May 2020
  • Especially during the long winter months when ships were icebound and there was little to do but wait for spring and hope for a thaw.
    David James, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Sep. 2020
  • But there are also fast cars evading a Cold War-era Russian submarine on an icebound lake.
    Washington Post, 24 June 2021
  • Not long after the Arctic sun set for the final time last year, a ferocious storm descended on the isolated, icebound crew of the research vessel Polarstern.
    Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Jan. 2020
  • But new modeling suggests that the ancient coastline was not uniformly icebound.
    Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Sometimes an icebound ship thawed out unharmed, leaving its crew merely thinner, colder, and crazier come springtime.
    Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2017
  • In these photographs, and frequently in Arbugaeva’s work, the scenes have a subdued underwater look, as if recovered from the deep past or icebound legend.
    Brian Dillo, The New Yorker, 22 June 2021
  • Then, after a brief conversation between the creature and his maker, Berry transforms into Frankenstein, then back into the creature, before the piece rushes to its absurd, icebound conclusion.
    Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2020
  • Since many planets are icebound or experience extreme temperatures, digging down into frozen areas might enable scientists to eventually find extraterrestrial life.
    David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 July 2021

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