How to Use pack ice in a Sentence

pack ice

noun

• The ship got stuck in pack ice, which closed in around its hull.
  — Tim Jarvis, Quartz, 23 Aug. 2019
• The Chukchi Sea, clear of pack ice, spawns dire winter storms.
  — Richard Adams Carey, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2021
• They are found in all deep oceans, from the equator to the edge of the pack ice in the Arctic and Antarctic.
  — al, 23 Nov. 2020
• The Endurance sank in 1915, after it was trapped in dense pack ice.
  — Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2022
• Ice picks are soldered to the blades of the oars to help break through pack ice as teams of five paddle through...
  — Jen Murphy, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2020
• Disaster struck in 1915 when the ship became trapped in the pack ice.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Mar. 2022
• The hull is designed to ride up on pack ice and use the ship's weight and forward motion to break through.
  — Michael S. Lockett, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Nov. 2019
• Females haul out onto pack ice to give birth and nurse their pups.
  — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 2 May 2019
• The edge of the Arctic pack ice straggled near Dutch whaling stations, and whales gathered along the edge of the ice.
  — Natasha Gural, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
• Bearded seals give birth and rear pups on drifting pack ice.
  — Dan Joling, Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2019
• Until then the Polarstern will be drifting with the pack ice for hundreds of miles, near the North Pole and across the Arctic.
  — Henry Fountain, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2020
• This is the stern of the good ship Endurance, which sank off the coast of Antarctica in 1915 after being crushed by pack ice.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 9 Mar. 2022
• The space professional does pack ice cream — at least in the museum gift-shop version of the job.
  — Leah Eskin, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2018
• The ultimate bastion for Russian submarines is in the far north, under the pack ice.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2021
• But as the expedition advanced, the ship was caught in pack ice and unable to make further progress.
  — Alex Lazarow, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
• They often are found at the outer margins of shifting ice floes and rarely in areas of dense pack ice, NOAA says.
  — Washington Post, 13 June 2019
• All of the hallmark Attenborough-isms are there: ominous strings as killer whales stalk a seal atop some pack ice.
  — WIRED, 18 Sep. 2022
• Fill the center with the chocolate ice cream, pressing lightly to pack ice cream in fairly tightly.
  — Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2020
• In 1915, the Endurance was trapped by dense pack ice, forcing Shackleton and his crew to make a stunning escape.
  — NBC News, 9 Mar. 2022
• On day seven of the expedition, our pilot, Martin, takes us a full 50 miles north of the ships, to where the ice floes turn to solid pack ice.
  — Christian Åslund, National Geographic, 2 July 2019
• Jones’s yellow plastic disc does not look much different now from when Matthews released it on the pack ice in 1979.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 30 Nov. 2019
• This year, according to the assessment, old ice accounted for less than 5 percent of the pack ice.
  — New York Times, 8 Dec. 2020
• This motion on the Venusian surface looks like blocks of crust that have moved against one another, much like broken chunks of pack ice.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 21 June 2021
• But for a long time, the edge of the Arctic pack ice lingered near Dutch whaling stations, and because whales gathered along the edge of the ice, the Dutch benefited.
  — Dagomar Degroot, Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2018
• However, nearing Antarctica, the ship became trapped in pack ice and sank in 1915.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 9 Mar. 2022
• After identifying their target sitting on a piece of pack ice, a group of killer whales swims a little ways away from it.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 8 Apr. 2011
• Such resolution is vital in winter darkness and dense pack ice, where cracks or holes, portals to air, open in less than three per cent of the frozen sea.
  — Marguerite Holloway, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2021
• Meanwhile, still dedicated to testing Nansen’s theory, the Fram and the rest of her crew remained caught in the pack ice that was drifting across the Arctic.
  — National Geographic, 24 Jan. 2020
• During the period of study, 11 southeast Greenland bears floated away on pack ice, which is ice that is untethered to shore and able to float away.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 16 June 2022
• In another, the British Terra Nova ship is surrounded by pack ice.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Aug 2024