How to Use icy in a Sentence

icy

adjective

• Her students learned a scary word and felt its icy shadow.
  — Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 24 May 2017
• Working quickly, fill a large bowl two-thirds of the way with very icy ice water.
  — Louisa Chu, chicagotribune.com, 25 May 2017
• Plus, the rugged outsole helps keep kids stable on icier terrains.
  — Karthika Gupta, Parents, 11 Jan. 2024
• On a steep descent, Gong fell hundreds of feet down an icy slope, landing on his back.
  — Don Norcross, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 June 2017
• That problem of how to keep ice cream turning from creamy to icy leads to the S word: stabilizers.
  — Louisa Chu, chicagotribune.com, 25 May 2017
• The specific risk with Antarctica is that much of its icy terrain is at around sea level.
  — Lilian Min, Cosmopolitan, 23 May 2017
• The union is long gone, and so are most of the white faces of men who once labored in the broiling heat of the killing floor and the icy chill of the production lines.
  — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 29 May 2017
• Who needs Michelin stars when you’re at the bar with that po’ boy and an icy honey ale, entertained by the kitchen staff doing its thing?
  — Allen Pierleoni, sacbee.com, 2 June 2017
• The deaths came amid warnings from officials around the state urging people to be careful around rivers that are high, fast and icy as warm spring temperatures melt heavy snow that fell in the Utah mountains.
  — CBS News, 30 May 2017
• There was a blinding shower of light and a giant plume of gas and icy debris when the comet and impactor spacecraft collided with the force of what was said to have been the equivalent of 4½ tons of dynamite.
  — Bart Barnes, Washington Post, 11 June 2017
• Sporting a red velvet smoking jacket and a large ornate pipe, Cranston mocked the crowd, only to be dropped into the icy bath when the donations exceeded $30 million.
  — Jennifer Konerman, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 May 2017
• Stories are often guided by a central image — for example, a lamprey or an icy moon or a concentration camp — that appears and reappears with newfound significance.
  — Kevin Kotur, kansascity.com, 20 May 2017
• The base has to strike the right note between creamy and icy.
  — Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 10 July 2019
• An icy fog clung to the sides of the highway in the swampy area around Amherst.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2018
• The ice cream is icy and plain, and the chocolate is bitter.
  — Jolene Thym, The Mercury News, 22 July 2019
• The roads are expected to be icy on both days of the storm.
  — Christina Goldbaum, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2019
• Snow, gusty winds and icy roads: Be on the lookout for a cold storm.
  — Arlene Martinez, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2020
• The roads were icy and snowy, but the car was moving slowly.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, Indianapolis Star, 18 Feb. 2020
• Drink these cold, not icy, but on the colder end of the spectrum.
  — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 29 June 2017
• The cold, icy weather of the last few days may have played a role in her death, Clark said.
  — Erin McCarthy, Philly.com, 9 Jan. 2018
• Texture, as in is the ice cream smooth and creamy, coarse, icy or gritty?
  — Lisa Drayer, CNN, 2 May 2018
• The Duchess also donned the tiara for the reception in 2015, along with an icy blue lace gown.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Dec. 2018
• The lakes on the icy moon are filled with liquid ethane and methane.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 Sep. 2019
• When roads are snowy or icy, buses will stay in the street to avoid getting stuck near the curb.
  — oregonlive, 22 Nov. 2019
• Two rescuers could be seen in a boat working to free the cow from the icy water.
  — CBS News, 9 Jan. 2018
• Roads are still icy, schools are closed and hard freeze warnings are in effect for both sides of the lake.
  — Carlie Kollath Wells, NOLA.com, 18 Jan. 2018
• Blame icy ocean worlds Might ET be buried under too much ice to phone Earth?
  — Giorgia Guglielmi, Science | AAAS, 20 Oct. 2017
• Many of the wights fall into the icy water, and the rest are separated from the men.
  — Julie Kosin, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Aug. 2017
• Still not over the sight of Arya Stark and her dragonglass blade turning the Night King to icy dust?
  — Lucy Wood, Marie Claire, 30 Apr. 2019
• The reception by the press at the conference was reportedly icy.
  — WIRED, 19 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024