How to Use ice field in a Sentence

ice field

noun
  • Along the west coast there are views of the ice fields of the Southern Alps.
    — Phil Marty, chicagotribune.com, 1 May 2018
  • There were ice fields, jagged mountains, roaring rivers, and plenty of wildlife.
    — Dara Dokas, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2017
  • These massive ice fields meet massive mountains.
    — Maryam Siddiqi, Travel + Leisure, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The tank produces uniform ice fields by design, which is both a strength and a constraint.
    — Deena Theresa, Interesting Engineering, 28 May 2026
  • But there’s a great hike out to a waterfall that tumbles into the lake from the ice field above.
    — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Mar. 2021
  • Go to hike, bike on dirt paths, admire ancient ice fields, and watch from afar as grizzlies fish for their dinner.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 27 July 2023
  • Head here to hike, bike on dirt paths, admire ancient ice fields, and watch from afar as grizzlies fish for their dinner.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 20 Jan. 2026
  • These factors range from the strength of ocean currents to the gravitational pull of large ice fields.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 5 Dec. 2018
  • The Bollard and her eight-man crew rammed the ice field for the next hour before yielding to the Hawser.
    — Matthew Ormseth, courant.com, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Climate change has withered the ice fields, and the Bossons has retreated up the hillside.
    — Simon Akam, Outside Online, 27 Nov. 2019
  • The northernmost one is wedged into an ice field in Svalbard, Norway.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Even when the weather breaks, the tops of the volcanoes can keep their shroud of fog thanks to their elevation and constant snow and ice fields.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Next, special machines called Pistenbullys go back and forth across the ice field, creating grooves.
    — Lilit Marcus, Cnn; Video By Max Burnell, CNN, 5 May 2022
  • In fact, the glacier has diminished so greatly that scientists have reclassified it as an ice field.
    — Andrea Vasquez Guillen, Washington Post, 1 July 2024
  • On the coastal edge of the ice field, travelers can find Jökulsárlón, a lagoon that sits between the base of the glacier and the ocean.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Waist-deep snow, ice fields, avalanches and the risk of hypothermia and frostbite make the mountain a far riskier proposition.
    — Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2025
  • This stonefly is the only true insect that lives in Patagonia's ice field, and its entire life cycle takes place on the ice.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 22 July 2022
  • Will pursuing that Legendary Flight Rune put you in range of an opponent’s ice field?
    — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 16 Sep. 2020
  • When he was informed of an ice field ahead, the Titanic’s Captain Smith did not reduce his speed.
    — Bhakti Mirchandani, Forbes.com, 19 May 2026
  • Take in Alaska's glaciers and ice fields from above during this Princess Cruises excursion.
    — Janice Wald Henderson, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Climate change is not about what might happen to your grandchild in 50 years or about what’s happening to polar bears on ice fields somewhere.
    — Peter Bergen, CNN, 18 Jan. 2025
  • There, Patagonia stretches out into wide skies, windswept pampas, turquoise lakes, and towering ice fields.
    — Eric Sheets, Travel + Leisure, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Data from that cable have revealed that the ice field acts as a loudspeaker, amplifying seismic tremors from below.
    — Carolyn Wilke, Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2022
  • But there's also areas where the ice is being compacted and compressed upon itself, and the bears are moving up through large rubble ice fields.
    — Author: Karin Brulliard, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Feb. 2018
  • Colliard and Borge crossing Alaska’s Stikine ice field in 2015.
    — Kelly Bastone, Outside Online, 8 Nov. 2017
  • These interruptions in the near-flawless horizon were nunataks — the ridges of mountains that emerged from an ice field or glacier in Antarctica.
    — Ali Wunderman, Travel + Leisure, 5 May 2023
  • The team of scientists had already combed over miles of Antarctic ice field, ready to turn around at the very end of an 11-day meteorite hunt.
    — Richard Requena, Chicago Tribune, 28 Jan. 2023
  • The tank can also produce ice ridges, compressed piles that form when ice fields collide and can extend tens of meters deep, though that’s occasional rather than routine.
    — Deena Theresa, Interesting Engineering, 28 May 2026
  • However, the plane crashes into an ice field and Rogers is perfectly preserved inside for 70 years.
    — Sonia Rao, chicagotribune.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • For icebreakers—whose job is to batter themselves against on unwitting ice field—a user needs around four ships and a lot of spare engines and other key parts to keep one on station.
    — Craig Hooper, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025

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