How to Use icehouse in a Sentence

icehouse

noun

• From the icehouse to the auction house, a pall hangs over the fabled wharves in New Bedford.
  — David Abel, BostonGlobe.com, 7 May 2018
• The building is more than 100 years old and has housed an icehouse, a train station and a dive bar.
  — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 21 Feb. 2020
• And every juice house and icehouse, as bars are known around here, loads up the jukebox with country blues.
  — Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2017
• Once stored in an icehouse, the blocks of ice were covered with sawdust or straw to help prevent ice blocks from adhering to one another.
  — Philip Potempa, Post-Tribune, 29 June 2018
• Sullivan can recall the thrilling chill of her dad's icehouse and the burgers her mother would fry up in a cast-iron skillet on summer trips to the lakes around Fairmont.
  — Curt Brown, Star Tribune, 29 Aug. 2020
• Three of the harbor's seven icehouses were located at the base of Federal Hill.
  — Baltimore Sun, baltimoresun.com, 17 Aug. 2017
• Elsewhere on the grounds is an artesian well, three ponds -- one stocked with catfish -- two barns, storage facilities, corrals and a pavilion that doubles as an icehouse.
  — Darla Guillen Gilthorpe, Houston Chronicle, 12 Nov. 2019
• The warm greenhouse climate became dramatically colder, creating an icehouse at the poles that has continued to the present day.
  — Anamaria Silic, Discover Magazine, 26 Jan. 2021
• Outside, several outbuildings were built on the 17-acre property, including an icehouse, a library, a boathouse and gardeners’ cottages.
  — Jaci Conry, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2020
• The proximate cause was a fire that destroyed the icehouse, but the business was doomed anyway, by the rise of artificial ice production and the growing popularity of a new consumer product: the household refrigerator.
  — David Owen, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2022
• So advertises the website of the BBC, which is running a two-part documentary on the scientific quest for the coldest temperature conceivable — a quest that started in the days of alchemy and icehouses and continues in modern physics labs.
  — Brandon Keim, WIRED, 25 July 2007

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024