How to Use iceman in a Sentence

iceman

noun
  • As the iceman chipped away at the ice, kids would get the shards of ice that fell off the back of the truck.
    Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 19 July 2019
  • There was a groundswell, too, that the new Woods was a more open, more approachable figure than the aloof iceman at the height of his powers.
    Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 30 Nov. 2019
  • Researchers even think Ötzi the iceman, the most famous glacier mummy, likely emerged due to the warming climate.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 26 Jan. 2018
  • The rough-hewn sandals look like something Otzi, the famed iceman found in the Alps, may have worn trudging through the mountains all those millenniums ago.
    Patrick J. McDonnell, sacbee, 4 Sep. 2017
  • Her wealthy husband finally realized the cause of the high cost and canceled the iceman’s visits.
    Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Iceman’s sole article of faith is his rock-bottom belief in his own pummelling strength.
    Michael Sragow, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2017
  • The more scientists learn, the more recognizable the Iceman becomes.
    Rod Nordland, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2017
  • Thinking there is no time like the present, Bobby gives dating a shot while also continuing to kick butt as Iceman in this start to a new series.
    Judith Utz, Teen Vogue, 20 June 2017
  • He is known as remote, and his cool reserve plays to both of his reputations: technocrat and iceman.
    Karl Vick, Time, 27 June 2019
  • Spindler credited the shallow stone gully where hikers found the iceman with shielding him from the relentless flow of glacial ice just a few meters above.
    Byandrew Curry, science.org, 7 Nov. 2022
  • These icemen start with tap water, which flows through a five-step filtration system that peels away impurities.
    Phillip Valys, sun-sentinel.com, 26 July 2019
  • The refrigerators had ice machines, so no iceman would ever invade the Belnord, as one paper put it.
    New York Times, 27 June 2022
  • Everyone there was eager to see Washington’s return to Broadway, but not as eager as the non- ticket–holding fans, who formed a scrum outside the stage door, wielding their iPhones in hopes of getting a selfie with the iceman himself.
    Maria Ward, Vogue, 27 Apr. 2018

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