: 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
Mead Gruver, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2025
The North Carolina lawmaker reportedly walked away in search of an ice cream truck, which escalated the situation.
—Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 14 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
Alan and Ann Simpson celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary with a community ice cream social attended by relatives and hundreds of others in a Cody park last summer.
—Mead Gruver, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2025
The North Carolina lawmaker reportedly walked away in search of an ice cream truck, which escalated the situation.
—Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 14 Mar. 2025
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“Ice-cream.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice-cream. Accessed 19 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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