How to Use ice floe in a Sentence

ice floe

noun
  • But first, scientists will have to find the perfect ice floe.
    — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2019
  • During the winter, the artists watch bald eagles float by on ice floes.
    — Eben Shapiro, Time, 10 May 2018
  • Steamboats and barges getting stuck in jagged ice floes, or even sinking.
    — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Two of the tourists were floating in the water, while the other was found on an ice floe.
    — Fox News, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Navigators will scout for an ice floe that is both young and sturdy.
    — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2019
  • They often are found at the outer margins of shifting ice floes.
    — Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2019
  • An ice floe is a floating sheet of ice that breaks away from a larger ice formation.
    — Alex Sundby, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2024
  • So at three in the morning, Nweeia saw a polar bear crawl its way onto the ice floe.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Winter has brought plenty of shivers to Texas this year, but there is at least one pearl to be found in the ice floe.
    — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Jan. 2018
  • The ship was built to withstand collisions with ice floes at the ice's edge, where polar bears could be found hunting.
    — Joe Hernandez, NPR, 8 Oct. 2025
  • At a thick ice floe, the crew gets to disembark for a brief moment of freedom from the vessel confines.
    — Hal Bernton, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Oct. 2021
  • The big waters of Lake Erie will beckon once the remaining ice floes are gone.
    — cleveland.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • As well, two of the three bears frolic on ice floes, which grizzlies reportedly never do.
    — Michael Engelhard, Smithsonian, 31 May 2017
  • Whatever happens to the ice floes, though, an election might not even crack Brexit.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Having spotted a sea lion on a small ice floe, three adult whales come together side by side, about 50 yards away.
    — Gary Ferguson, Discover Magazine, 13 Nov. 2019
  • Each year anglers in the upper Midwest are rescued from ice floes that get blown into open water by high winds.
    — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 11 June 2024
  • In the Antarctic Ocean, orcas famously create waves to wash seals off ice floes.
    — Victoria Sayo Turner, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 July 2023
  • Even the familiar tales in this book are gripping—wooden ships in the pincers of an ice floe, flickering oil lamps, thin air.
    — Sara Wheeler, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2018
  • In early October, the ship reached the Arctic sea ice edge, and the crew then froze their ship into an ice floe.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 21 Sep. 2020
  • The ice those anglers were fishing on had been fairly stable for a few days, but a huge ice floe broke off in brisk winds and took fishermen for a scary ride.
    — cleveland, 27 Jan. 2022
  • On July 31, 18 runners completed the marathon on an ice floe.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Pine trees are dotted around the landscape stretching right down to ground level where ice floes seem to float on the water just outside touching distance.
    — Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Pine trees are dotted around the landscape stretching right down to ground level where ice floes seem to float on the water just outside touching distance.
    — Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The ice floe had broken off near Catawba Island, close to the Lake Erie islands.
    — Jane Morice | [email protected], cleveland, 6 Feb. 2022
  • The edge of an ice floe was illuminated by bow lights piercing the morning darkness of the Bering Sea.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The large ice floe comprising the field was as close as possible to the geographic North Pole.
    — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2022
  • At one point Valeri let Oleg steer, and the boy ran the stern of the boat into an ice floe, bending the engine’s propeller.
    — Longreads, 2 Mar. 2022
  • An environmental activist sits on an ice floe in the middle of the Arctic Ocean.
    — Jacob Lambert, TheWeek, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Scientists flew by helicopter or sailed by dinghy to ice floes in the Fram Strait to scoop snow with a clean mug and a steel spoon or soup ladle.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Viking’s expedition team tracks live satellite footage of active ice floes, where polar bears typically hunt for seals.
    — Jillian Dara, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Jan. 2026

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