How to Use ice shelf in a Sentence

ice shelf

noun

• The Larsen C is the next ice shelf in line and by far the largest of the three.
  — Sarah Gibbens, Environment, 28 Dec. 2020
• The key to the future of Thwaites is the ice shelf and its tongue.
  — Arkansas Online, 4 Feb. 2022
• The faster movement of ice causes the ice shelf to stretch and crack.
  — Andrew Freedman, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Feb. 2020
• Think of the floating ice shelf as a dam that holds back the ice sheet on land.
  — WIRED, 27 Oct. 2023
• The ice shelf has now been reduced in area by about 43%.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2020
• The study is unlikely to be the last word on the fate of the West Antarctic ice shelves.
  — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2023
• So what are DJs blasting 10 miles across the ice shelf?
  — Lukas Harnisch, SPIN, 20 Jan. 2022
• The ice shelf is one of the restraining forces holding the ice sheet back.
  — Ted Scambos, The Conversation, 7 June 2022
• Part of what holds it in place is an ice shelf that juts out onto the surface of the ocean.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 15 Feb. 2023
• The bit of a glacier that’s resting on land is known as an ice sheet, and the bit floating on the ocean is the ice shelf.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 16 Feb. 2022
• The ice shelf on the upwind side of the hole is the perfect spot to set a couple of the duck decoys as resters.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 3 Dec. 2019
• Much of that loss is because warmer ocean water has caused the ice shelves to melt.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 7 Feb. 2020
• As this grounding line recedes, bits of the ice shelf break off.
  — The Economist, 17 Aug. 2019
• Now climate change has turned the ice shelf into a threat — to Pettit’s field work, and to the world.
  — Sarah Kaplan, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Dec. 2021
• Now climate change has turned the ice shelf into a threat - to Pettit’s field work, and to the world.
  — Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Dec. 2021
• And that could be bad news for the glacial ice sheet’s connection to the floating ice shelf.
  — WIRED, 8 Nov. 2022
• This week a giant city-sized iceberg split off an ice shelf in what part of the world?
  — CNN, 26 Jan. 2023
• The holes were roughly 200 meters deep in the Antarctic ice shelf.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 23 Dec. 2021
• That could take hundreds of years, but the ice shelf could fall apart much sooner.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2023
• 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
• Scientists had been seeing the ice shelf shrink a bit since the 1970s, Neff said.
  — Seth Borenstein, chicagotribune.com, 25 Mar. 2022
• This erosion lets the ice flow faster, pushing against the floating ice shelf.
  — Ted Scambos, The Conversation, 7 June 2022
• Stronger winds tend to push ice away from the ice shelf, which leaves areas of water open for more ice to form.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 12 June 2023
• The ice shelves buttress glaciers within the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 23 Oct. 2023
• But as the ocean warms, its water laps against the ice shelves from below and speeds up their melting.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
• That allows ocean waves to rock the ice shelf, further stressing it.
  — New York Times, 14 Apr. 2022
• On the one hand, the reason for the Conger ice shelf collapse and the preceding heat wave seems clear.
  — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Apr. 2022
• In satellite images, the center of the ice shelf looks stable.
  — Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2022
• The 450-square-mile ice shelf was located in an area known as Wilkes Land; the loss occurred in mid-March.
  — New York Times, 11 Apr. 2022
• The sea presses it against the belly of the ice shelf, and as the rover crawls along, its sensors collect data.
  — David W. Brown, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 28 May 2024