How to Use ice sheet in a Sentence

ice sheet

noun

• The top of the ice sheet warms and melts, and the water runs off into the ocean.
  — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 1 May 2020
• Juno will bring new tools with which to study this ice sheet.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 29 Sep. 2022
• For the scientists out on the ice sheet, the warmth has been alarming.
  — René Marsh and Angela Fritz, CNN, 20 July 2022
• The ice shelf is one of the restraining forces holding the ice sheet back.
  — Ted Scambos, The Conversation, 7 June 2022
• The method is ice sheets, which are bed linens dunked in ice water and wrapped around the body.
  — Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 17 July 2024
• The seven years with the greatest melting of the ice sheets have occurred in the last decade.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 21 Apr. 2023
• Glaciers are riddled with cracks in the ice sheet known as crevasses.
  — Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 3 Feb. 2024
• The weight of the ice sheet has had an incredible impact on the bedrock.
  — David Nikel, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
• The Greenland ice sheet has been in trouble for some time.
  — Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 24 Aug. 2020
• Think of an ice shelf as a cork that’s keeping the rest of the glacier, that ice sheet, from sliding into the ocean.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 16 Feb. 2022
• The ice sheet would have dwindled slowly, like an ice cube moved from the freezer to the fridge.
  — Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2021
• In Greenland, these warm rivers in the sky also play a role in melting the ice sheet.
  — Kasha Patel, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2021
• The 75-year-old made just two attempts at sliding a curling stone across the ice sheet at the Oval.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 May 2022
• But as the Southern Hemisphere warms—and the ice sheet melts at faster rates—the risk could be rising.
  — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 27 Aug. 2020
• The ice sheet was named for that group: El Glaciar de los Polacos.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2023
• Some of the mass loss comes from melting ice shelves, and some of it comes from melting on the surface of the ice sheet.
  — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2020
• His staff was able to relieve some of the pressure against the dam by making large cuts across the ice sheet.
  — CBS News, 11 Apr. 2024
• The ice sheet at Pemaquid measured as much as two miles thick.
  — Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2021
• In any map of the Antarctic ice sheet, Thwaites Glacier is bound to be a prime concern.
  — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 13 Dec. 2019
• The ice sheets have barely moved due to a lack of wind this week, officials said.
  — Liza Esquibias, Peoplemag, 7 Feb. 2024
• But warmer ocean water is also eroding the ice sheet around the edges.
  — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 29 July 2021
• The loss of the Thwaites glacier could trigger the broader collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2020
• These glaciers make up about 12% of the entire ice sheet and hold enough ice to raise sea levels by about 4.3 feet.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2024
• In each case, ocean warming was just too much for this section of the ice sheet to survive, the study found.
  — Seth Borenstein, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2023
• The ice sheet’s size rivals that of Alaska, and its center is well over a mile thick.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Dec. 2019
• The Coast Guard rescued 18 people from an ice sheet that broke away in Lake Erie over the weekend.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2022
• The world’s ice sheets and glaciers are losing a whopping 1.2 trillion tons of ice each year.
  — E&e News, Scientific American, 20 Nov. 2023
• Drone shots of glaciers smashing into the sea beneath the Greenland ice sheet.
  — WIRED, 18 Sep. 2022
• The glacier acts like plumbing for the massive ice sheet that abuts it, sending a flow of ice into the adjacent ocean.
  — Eric Zerkel, CNN, 29 Oct. 2024
• The current is warming now and therefore speeding up, and its course is more southerly—all of which erodes the Antarctic ice sheet.
  — Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024