How to Use icebreaker in a Sentence

icebreaker

noun

• The icebreaker rides on top of the ice and then the weight of the ship breaks it.
  — Jane Morice, cleveland.com, 19 July 2017
• In the best case, the first new icebreaker will float out of dry dock six years from now.
  — Justin Gillis, Jonathan Corum, Alaska Dispatch News, 18 July 2017
• The Healy is a medium icebreaker that is able to break ice up to 10-feet thick.
  — Author: Hal Bernton, Anchorage Daily News, 23 July 2021
• While pets are not props, your pooch can be a cute icebreaker.
  — Mark A. Stein, Star Tribune, 12 June 2021
• The cost of the new icebreakers is uncertain at this point.
  — Author: Dan Lamothe, Alaska Dispatch News, 5 Sep. 2017
• The Coast Guard also has a medium icebreaker, the Healy.
  — Tyler Olson, Fox News, 9 May 2021
• This is the only heavy icebreaker the United States has.
  — Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times, 17 June 2019
• Set on an icebreaker and sprayed with a hose for 72 hours, Casto’s pot more than tripled its weight.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2022
• It can be made ahead, batched to serve a crowd, and is a fine icebreaker if your gathering is in need of one.
  — Jessica Battilana, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Nov. 2021
• But Straneo was confident that the old icebreaker was up to the task.
  — Paul Voosen, Science Magazine, 10 Oct. 2019
• The masks were an enormous icebreaker: even men rarely caught on a dance floor seemed happy.
  — Gloria Steinem, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2024
• The two nations are bulking up ships known as icebreakers, which can tear apart ice.
  — Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner, 5 Feb. 2020
• The icebreaker was in the planning stages for three years and now will take an additional three years to build.
  — Rosemary McClure, latimes.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• Anyone who makes a trip to Pier 17 may notice a barge parked alongside the icebreaker.
  — Nora Mishanec, SFChronicle.com, 22 Sep. 2020
• Today Russia has 41 icebreakers with at least 8 more on the way.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 4 Apr. 2018
• The app will suggest icebreakers to get the convo started.
  — Kara Wahlgren, Seventeen, 13 Nov. 2018
• As an icebreaker, Sue Skirvin asks the 15 or so people in the room to give an adjective that starts with the same letter as their name.
  — Austin Fuller, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2022
• The Coast Guard also plans to build three medium icebreakers.
  — Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times, 17 June 2019
• Pazol first traveled to the Arctic 12 years ago on a Coast Guard icebreaker that was mapping the ocean floor.
  — Brian Slupski, chicagotribune.com, 7 Sep. 2021
• Sarah Havens, a Louisville milliner, says swing dancing can be a real icebreaker.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 9 Feb. 2018
• How would that be for an icebreaker between Lanning and Duck fans?
  — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 30 Aug. 2022
• Weather used to be the obvious icebreaker, the safest of low-hanging fruit.
  — Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2022
• The ship not only traveled through the Arctic in record time, but has done so without the use of an icebreaker escort.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 25 Aug. 2017
• The three-year contract included the first-ever opt-out clause when MacPhail agreed to it as an icebreaker.
  — Star Tribune, 13 July 2021
• The Chinese also are building their own fleet of icebreakers, a clear bet on the future by a nation that lies more than 2,500 miles south of the pole.
  — Neil Shea, National Geographic, 21 Aug. 2019
• Any good icebreakers or words of wisdom to quell the anxiety?
  — Marissa A. Ross, Bon Appetit, 29 May 2018
• The icebreaker is now sailing toward Cape Town and is expected there in about a week.
  — New York Times, 15 Mar. 2022
• The new icebreaker will be similar in size to the Mackinaw.
  — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 22 Dec. 2022
• When in doubt, try David Sedaris’s bizarre conversational icebreakers.
  — George Gurley, New York Times, 21 June 2024
• Putin’s regime styles itself an icebreaker, smashing to bits the U.S.-led international order on behalf of humanity.
  — Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024