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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