How to Use ice cap in a Sentence

ice cap

noun

• This latest report, on the oceans and ice caps, rounds out the trio.
  — Alejandra Borunda, National Geographic, 25 Sep. 2019
• If hypocrisy were a greenhouse gas, the ice caps would be gone by now.
  — Jonah Goldberg, Alaska Dispatch News, 11 Oct. 2017
• Since Rio, the Arctic ice cap has shrunk by two-fifths.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
• As the Earth gets warmer, the polar ice caps melt and sea levels rise.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 27 Apr. 2018
• My goodness, what’s happening to the ozone and the ice caps?
  — Liz Shannon Miller, The Verge, 2 July 2019
• The water is trapped in ice caps, and the soil is alkaline and dry.
  — Sarah Rense, Esquire, 18 Jan. 2018
• On view in the new image are storms, rings, moons and a gleaming polar ice cap.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023
• The past decade was the warmest ever, and polar ice caps are melting six times faster than in the 1990s.
  — Christopher Flavelle, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2020
• Over a four-year span, Greenland’s ice cap shed 1 trillion tons of ice.
  — Rob Nixon, Smithsonian, 23 Mar. 2018
• More than 80 percent of the island is covered by an ice cap.
  — Fox News, 16 Aug. 2019
• The ice cap that covers Antarctica isn’t a rigid whole.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 5 May 2022
• The Red Planet has ice caps on its north and south poles, which grow in winter and melt some in summer.
  — Shannon Stirone, Wired, 4 Jan. 2020
• Clouds swirl over the vast African continent and south polar ice cap, all set against the deep blue of our world's oceans.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 7 Dec. 2022
• The increase has been at least twice as high at the poles: bad news for ice caps and beachfront properties alike.
  — Gernot Wagner, Foreign Affairs, 27 Apr. 2015
• The Arctic is a floating ice cap on an ocean penned in by continents.
  — Seth Borenstein, latimes.com, 1 July 2019
• Greenland’s ice cap has taken thousands of years to form.
  — Charlotte Gray, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2020
• The Red Planet’s polar ice caps, for example, grow in the winter and shrink in the summer.
  — Shannon Hall, New York Times, 5 July 2018
• This was my sixth trip to Iceland but my first time tunneling through an ice cap.
  — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Nov. 2021
• Those dark, stalactite streaks at the top of the image are not the result of a melting polar ice cap.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2017
• Use tip-ups to suspend large, dead sucker minnows within five feet of the ice cap.
  — Outdoor Life, 17 Jan. 2020
• The crooner’s gentle ballads were warm enough to melt the ice caps and the audience’s heartstrings.
  — Jordan Diaz, Billboard, 25 Apr. 2018
• This includes the snow-and-ice cap sinking in the middle of the caldera at the summit of the volcano over the past few years, likely a sign of heat within the caldera.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2018
• That rump of legacy estates is like the polar ice cap – shrinking over time.
  — Peter Bendor-Samuel, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021
• Eventually these layers reach the surface of the ice cap with their loads of meteorites and the wind bares them to the sky.
  — Barry Lopez, Harper's magazine, 10 Jan. 2019
• Passengers will be able to descend from the airship and enjoy a picnic on the ice cap.
  — Miquel Ros, CNN, 18 Aug. 2021
• Adrenaline seekers may choose to go on a flight-seeing tour of Glacier Bay to get an aerial view of the jagged peaks and ice caps.
  — Maridel Reyes, Women's Health, 6 June 2023
• Geologists have seen for the first time rapid ice loss at the Vavilov ice cap in the Arctic Circle.
  — Fox News, 18 Dec. 2019
• From Tibet to the Arctic to Antarctica, glaciers and ice caps around the world are melting at alarming rates.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 23 Jan. 2020
• Global heating is melting the Greenland ice sheets and Arctic ice cap.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024
• These pools reflect a startling reality: one of the world’s largest ice cap is melting.
  — Sherri Goodman, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024