How to Use ice sheet in a Sentence

ice sheet

noun
  • Juno will bring new tools with which to study this ice sheet.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The ice sheet was not in balance.
    — Evan Howell, Quanta Magazine, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The site looked like the rest of the ice sheet—flat, white, windswept.
    — Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Most of the land is covered by thick ice sheets year-round.
    — Connor Okeeffe, Oc Register, 21 Jan. 2026
  • To the west, the ice sheet bulked vast and gray behind the peaks.
    — Paul Voosen, Science Magazine, 10 Oct. 2019
  • And the ice sheet, perched on land, keeps water out of the ocean.
    — Paul Bierman, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Start to melt an ice sheet and the same cycle spins in reverse.
    — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Glaciers are riddled with cracks in the ice sheet known as crevasses.
    — Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Both ice sheets have shown increasing rates of ice loss over the past decade.
    — Brandon Miller, CNN, 4 Sep. 2019
  • The top of the ice sheet warms and melts, and the water runs off into the ocean.
    — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 1 May 2020
  • The ice sheet at Pemaquid measured as much as two miles thick.
    — Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The slabs can then freeze together and form a solid ice sheet.
    — Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Explorers trying to cross the ice sheet lost their lives to the cold.
    — Paul Bierman, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2026
  • But warmer ocean water is also eroding the ice sheet around the edges.
    — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 29 July 2021
  • Due to their enormous size, ice sheets have a huge amount of inertia.
    — Rebecca Hersher, NPR, 19 Nov. 2025
  • For the scientists out on the ice sheet, the warmth has been alarming.
    — René Marsh and Angela Fritz, CNN, 20 July 2022
  • Ice cores are long cylinders drilled from the ice sheets of the polar regions.
    — Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
  • This month, too, the ice sheet for the Red Wings games is installed.
    — John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 4 Sep. 2017
  • The ice sheets have barely moved due to a lack of wind this week, officials said.
    — Liza Esquibias, Peoplemag, 7 Feb. 2024
  • It's also covered by a massive ice sheet that's some two miles thick at some points.
    — Doyle Rice, USA Today, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Sea-level rise is caused by warming of the ocean and melting from glaciers and ice sheets.
    — Phuong Le, The Seattle Times, 30 July 2018
  • Even a small change in the Antarctic ice sheet might make a big change to sea level.
    — Sarah Cahlan /, NBC News, 19 June 2018
  • Greenland is mostly covered by an ice sheet.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2026
  • There are other towns in Slovakia that don’t have enough kids to fill their ice sheets.
    — Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2026
  • The ice sheet would have dwindled slowly, like an ice cube moved from the freezer to the fridge.
    — Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Even if a suitable site is found and manned, deposits lie under ice sheets up to a mile thick.
    — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The weight of the ice sheet has had an incredible impact on the bedrock.
    — David Nikel, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Seas pile up in some spots, pushed by trade winds or pulled by gravity toward big things like ice sheets.
    — Chris Mooney, CNN Money, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Greenland's glaciers are dumping more ice into the sea, and the ice sheet as a whole has lost mass.
    — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 8 May 2026
  • His staff was able to relieve some of the pressure against the dam by making large cuts across the ice sheet.
    — CBS News, 11 Apr. 2024

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