How to Use ice cap in a Sentence

ice cap

noun
  • And like our polar ice caps, that ice has yet to thaw.
    — John Phillips, Oc Register, 17 Sep. 2025
  • If hypocrisy were a greenhouse gas, the ice caps would be gone by now.
    — Jonah Goldberg, Alaska Dispatch News, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Those with small telescopes will be able to glimpse its polar ice cap.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
  • This latest report, on the oceans and ice caps, rounds out the trio.
    — Alejandra Borunda, National Geographic, 25 Sep. 2019
  • So, the polar ice caps may be new enough that the crust at the poles is still sinking.
    — Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Melting glaciers and ice caps also will add to sea levels.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 23 May 2026
  • The water is trapped in ice caps, and the soil is alkaline and dry.
    — Sarah Rense, Esquire, 18 Jan. 2018
  • As the Earth gets warmer, the polar ice caps melt and sea levels rise.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 27 Apr. 2018
  • On view in the new image are storms, rings, moons and a gleaming polar ice cap.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Jo-Ellen will still be on this show when the polar ice caps swallow most of the state.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 1 May 2026
  • Wildfires, floods, melting ice caps, heat waves, the bleaching of ocean reefs.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
  • Over a four-year span, Greenland’s ice cap shed 1 trillion tons of ice.
    — Rob Nixon, Smithsonian, 23 Mar. 2018
  • That rump of legacy estates is like the polar ice cap – shrinking over time.
    — Peter Bendor-Samuel, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021
  • This was my sixth trip to Iceland but my first time tunneling through an ice cap.
    — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Use tip-ups to suspend large, dead sucker minnows within five feet of the ice cap.
    — Outdoor Life, 17 Jan. 2020
  • The Arctic is a floating ice cap on an ocean penned in by continents.
    — Seth Borenstein, latimes.com, 1 July 2019
  • On Earth, such a finding beneath an ice cap would not be at all uncommon.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Springtime has arrived on Mars as ice melts on the planet's northern ice cap.
    — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 24 Apr. 2026
  • As the ice cap melts away, global sea levels will rise, endangering many coastal cities around the world.
    — Charlotte Gray, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Passengers will be able to descend from the airship and enjoy a picnic on the ice cap.
    — Miquel Ros, CNN, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Clouds swirl over the vast African continent and south polar ice cap, all set against the deep blue of our world's oceans.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The full disc of Mars is seen with the polar ice caps slightly off centre to the top left and bottom right.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Those dark, stalactite streaks at the top of the image are not the result of a melting polar ice cap.
    — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2017
  • The Red Planet has ice caps on its north and south poles, which grow in winter and melt some in summer.
    — Shannon Stirone, Wired, 4 Jan. 2020
  • The crooner’s gentle ballads were warm enough to melt the ice caps and the audience’s heartstrings.
    — Jordan Diaz, Billboard, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Rather than a continuous ice sheet, all that remained were high ice caps and glaciers on or near mountaintops.
    — Keiji Horikawa, The Conversation, 22 Dec. 2025
  • But few are more stunning than Iceland's Vatnajökull ice cap.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Mars has other bright patches under ice that haven’t been analyzed with these techniques, but all the way at the edge of the ice cap.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Eventually these layers reach the surface of the ice cap with their loads of meteorites and the wind bares them to the sky.
    — Barry Lopez, Harper's magazine, 10 Jan. 2019
  • Now the polar ice cap was melting, opening up potential Arctic sea lanes.
    — Ben Taub, New Yorker, 15 June 2026

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