How to Use ice over/up in a Sentence

ice over/up

phrasal verb
  • Then the piece is slid across the ice over to the circle.
    Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Feb. 2022
  • One day, Oleg wandered across a frozen lake and broke through the ice up to his shins.
    Longreads, 2 Mar. 2022
  • In our current house in LaGrange, the ice over the porch was bad but the one above the bedroom was worse.
    Doug George, chicagotribune.com, 23 Feb. 2021
  • In these areas, the rain may just run off rather than ice over surfaces.
    Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The only drawbacks are that lines still ice up during the day and holes freeze at night.
    John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Heat the dent using a hairdryer, cover the area with a sheet of aluminum foil, and rub dry ice over it.
    Jeff Harper, chicagotribune.com, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Capobianco sent a long pass from the other end of the ice up to Eriksson who took the puck toward the net for his goal.
    José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 18 Apr. 2022
  • On heavy powder days, the slide-out mechanism can ice up.
    Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Ice will be thinner where there is an active beaver run; sometimes there will just be a skim of ice over the top.
    Joseph Biebert, Outdoor Life, 3 Apr. 2023
  • At one point, employees even went out to purchase bags of ice over the weekend to keep food safe.
    Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Hull also had several troubling episodes off the ice over the years.
    Kevin Allen, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Williams: Literally, the glass of water next to my bed would ice over.
    Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 12 May 2021
  • If necessary, place a resealable bag filled with ice over the stain to harden the sap first.
    Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Dec. 2021
  • The remaining open ocean around the boat would ice over, and three million square miles of liquid would turn solid in the span of a few short weeks.
    Amy Brady, Scientific American, 1 May 2022
  • Ice that formed over those cracks in the road was less perfect than ice over the smooth asphalt, and was more vulnerable to forces from above.
    Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Jan. 2022
  • Will Cube's career be put on ice over his vaccine refusal?
    Brendan Morrow, The Week, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The skateway was created in 1971, when a team of NCC employees used brooms and shovels to clear a small section on the ice over the canal.
    Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2023
  • If that happens, the models suggest the ice sheet could lose 14 trillion to 36 trillion tons of ice over the course of this century.
    Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2020
  • He was last seen Tuesday night around 10:45 p.m. on foot, when the weather was continuing to ice over.
    Dallas News, 1 Feb. 2023
  • But as a look through NHL history shows, some truly horrendous teams have taken the ice over the years.
    Jace Evans, USA TODAY, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Heavy ice over southeast Minnesota with 2 inches of ice on wires near Winona.
    Star Tribune, 21 Feb. 2021
  • Glaciers form when snow is compacted into ice over hundreds of years.
    Marissa Grunes, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
  • After all, Bestgen said, bass evolved to endure waters that ice over in winter.
    Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 19 July 2022
  • This might occur because the thinner ice over a trench sags like a flimsy bridge; as the ice flexes downward, its bulging belly cracks open.
    Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Outlying areas could see slick roads early in the day as moisture from Wednesday’s rain may ice over.
    oregonlive, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Does this year's dramatic drop mark a shift toward declining Antarctic sea ice over the long run?
    Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 23 Mar. 2022
  • But the weather service said that worsening conditions could cause trees and power lines to ice over and lead to outages.
    Dallas News, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Monahon was told to pack her bags, and the next morning joined a group trying to navigate a safe route across the sea ice over eight days to resupply a tiny U.S. outpost.
    Nick Perry, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Meanwhile, snow and sleet up to an inch and ice up to a tenth of an inch are possible in Springfield, Missouri, and ice accumulation up to a tenth of an inch in St. Louis.
    Rob Shackelford, CNN, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Lines start to blur: calmness may edge into detachment; coolheadedness might ice over.
    Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2024

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