How to Use pack ice in a Sentence
pack ice
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The ship got stuck in pack ice, which closed in around its hull.
—Tim Jarvis, Quartz, 23 Aug. 2019
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The Chukchi Sea, clear of pack ice, spawns dire winter storms.
—Richard Adams Carey, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2021
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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
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The Endurance sank in 1915, after it was trapped in dense pack ice.
—Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2022
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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
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Disaster struck in 1915 when the ship became trapped in the pack ice.
—Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Mar. 2022
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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
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Females haul out onto pack ice to give birth and nurse their pups.
—Craig Welch, National Geographic, 2 May 2019
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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
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Bearded seals give birth and rear pups on drifting pack ice.
—Dan Joling, Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2019
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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
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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
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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
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The ultimate bastion for Russian submarines is in the far north, under the pack ice.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2021
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But as the expedition advanced, the ship was caught in pack ice and unable to make further progress.
—Alex Lazarow, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
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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
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All of the hallmark Attenborough-isms are there: ominous strings as killer whales stalk a seal atop some pack ice.
—WIRED, 18 Sep. 2022
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Fill the center with the chocolate ice cream, pressing lightly to pack ice cream in fairly tightly.
—Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2020
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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
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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
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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
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This year, according to the assessment, old ice accounted for less than 5 percent of the pack ice.
—New York Times, 8 Dec. 2020
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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
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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
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However, nearing Antarctica, the ship became trapped in pack ice and sank in 1915.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 9 Mar. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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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
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In another, the British Terra Nova ship is surrounded by pack ice.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2023
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