: a sweet flavored frozen food containing cream or butterfat and usually eggs
Examples of ice-cream in a Sentence
Noun
What flavor of ice cream do you like?
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Jeri Clausing, AFAR Media, 26 Feb. 2025
At the lakeside ice-cream stand, lines ceaselessly form and re-form.
—Joseph O’Neill, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2025
Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 3 Mar. 2025
There are great restaurants, boutique shops, a good vibe and oh, the local ice cream!
—Tom Bentley, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2025
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Adjective
Think ice-cream stops, pizza-making classes, and fun, educational workshops, which—besides entertaining the kids—gives adults the opportunity to spend a little time apart from the wee ones.
—Jeri Clausing, AFAR Media, 26 Feb. 2025
At the lakeside ice-cream stand, lines ceaselessly form and re-form.
—Joseph O’Neill, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2025
Noun
The annual Free Cone Day means fans can snag a free small vanilla soft serve ice cream in a cone (duh!), just like in previous years.
—Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 3 Mar. 2025
There are great restaurants, boutique shops, a good vibe and oh, the local ice cream!
—Tom Bentley, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2025
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“Ice-cream.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice-cream. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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ice cream
noun
(ˈ)ī-ˈskrēm 
ˈī-ˌskrēm
: a frozen food containing sweetened and flavored cream or butterfat
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