How to Use floe in a Sentence

floe

noun
  • Get a warm jacket and embrace your own floe.
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Meanwhile, along the sides of the strait, floes of ice were moving by rather quickly.
    — Chris Mooney, Alaska Dispatch News, 19 Aug. 2017
  • They are trapped in the floes of the Far North, and their courage is failing.
    — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2017
  • And today it is filled with young floes of churning nitrogen ice.
    — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 26 Mar. 2020
  • The Russian ship will transfer its equipment to the floe and turn around.
    — Henry Fountain, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Another swell came and went, cracking the ice into floes.
    — Ben Taub, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • The bears travel around the ocean looking for a safe place to land as their ice floe gets smaller and smaller.
    — Deborah Ellis, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2016
  • Players tilt a tablet device back and forth to steer the floe, avoiding icebergs and icy walls on either side.
    — Sarah Deweerdt, Science | AAAS, 22 June 2018
  • As well, two of the three bears frolic on ice floes, which grizzlies reportedly never do.
    — Michael Engelhard, Smithsonian, 31 May 2017
  • Some of it was covered in sand and dirt from crashing against the coast, while larger floes had pools of turquoise meltwater on top.
    — Frank Jordans, The Seattle Times, 26 July 2017
  • On a bone-chilling afternoon, teams of two divers dove among the floes while a third diver sat ready in case his help was required.
    — Author: Dan Lamothe, Alaska Dispatch News, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Or maybe a little detached, like the floe that carried all those winter anglers across the lake 30 years ago.
    — Will Ryan, Field & Stream, 20 Feb. 2020
  • Local news outlets showed floes of ice floating along the city’s waterways after the winter storm.
    — Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 27 Jan. 2026
  • On the wide screen above, killer whales in the wild work in tandem to manufacture waves, dislodging their prey — a lone seal perched on an ice floe.
    — Lori Weisberg, latimes.com, 25 May 2017
  • On November 14, a storm arrived, and the men scrambled to find a secure floe.
    — Adventure, 23 Dec. 2020
  • Ice floes could come rushing down previously frozen rivers, damaging hulls and props, and even toppling canoes and kayaks.
    — Dave Orrick, Twin Cities, 17 Feb. 2017
  • Just vast floes of sea ice and the two Russian submarines that had made the arduous trek to stake a claim to the North Pole.
    — Zoë Schlanger, Quartz, 10 July 2019
  • Although their floe broke up before the 12-month goal, Rex says the expedition has been a great success.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2020
  • But few landscapes are more dynamic than the Arctic ice cap, a mosaic of small floes only a few kilometers across.
    — Quanta Magazine, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Analyses of ice paths from previous years suggest that the ideal floe lies about 335 miles east of the North Pole.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2019
  • Trackers placed close to one another on floes in the Barents Sea rapidly diverge in position.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
  • In the Chukchi Sea northwest of Alaska this month, which should be brimming with floes, its limits likely won’t be tested.
    — Dan Joling, chicagotribune.com, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Choosing the right floe had its challenges, as the ice in the region proved to be thinner and less stable than the mission’s organizers had expected.
    — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 10 Jan. 2020
  • Lasse Rabenstein, the expedition’s chief scientist, and other sea-ice experts on board would have to choose a floe that can safely support the crew and equipment.
    — New York Times, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Icebreaker, so named because each turbine's foundation has been designed to withstand lake ice floes, formally asked for bids for part of the project earlier this summer.
    — John Funk, cleveland.com, 21 Aug. 2017
  • Pictures shared on social media and by local emergency services also show sprawling floes of ice cluttering up beaches, roads, and even some lakeside residences.
    — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 25 Feb. 2019
  • As part of the expedition, the Polarstern anchored to a large floe last fall and set up a camp on the ice, creating a small scientific village protected from wandering polar bears by alarms and scouts.
    — Frank Jordans, Star Tribune, 12 Oct. 2020
  • The multimillion-dollar plane was damaged during the incident and can't fly on its own power off the floe, a Bald Mountain representative said Wednesday.
    — Laurel Andrews, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Mar. 2018
  • And, if Minervudottir’s tale never quite coheres, never quite touches the rest of the book, then her very ice-floe remoteness becomes a stark reminder of our society’s detachment from a world in which a woman could simply and happily be left alone.
    — Naomi Alderman, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2018
  • In mid-November, a violent storm opened up a new crack between the Polarstern and its floe, knocking over a 100-foot meteorological tower and threatening to snap power cables.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Mar. 2020

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