How to Use iceberg in a Sentence

iceberg

noun
  • Tip of the iceberg, but enough for now.
    — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • In the depths of night, the boat strikes an iceberg and sinks.
    — Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2020
  • No one should say the Padres have hit an iceberg.
    — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2025
  • But this is just the tip of an alarming iceberg.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • But this is just the tip of an alarming iceberg.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • There’s no way to know what an iceberg of this size will do to the ice shelf.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 26 Feb. 2019
  • But that’s just the tip of the toxic iceberg.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Those deals are just the tip of the proverbial iceberg, though.
    — Imani Moise, WSJ, 24 Nov. 2022
  • That’s where the tip of that damn iceberg comes into play.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Either way, that bag full of cash is just the tip of the iceberg.
    — Matt Peterson, The Atlantic, 7 June 2017
  • From the hills above, the icebergs had all seemed still and sculptural.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 12 June 2024
  • But parking gaffes are the tip of this iceberg, not to mix our ship metaphors.
    — Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2021
  • This is kind of the tip of the AI iceberg still.
    — Evan Clark, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The bread is spread with mayo; shredded iceberg is tucked in at the last minute.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Feb. 2021
  • There are no icebergs in the ship’s path, and the voyage was slow and steady.
    — Rick Helfenbein, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
  • These finds are just the tip of the Prime Day iceberg.
    — Annie Blackman, InStyle, 23 June 2026
  • What is the process where pieces of ice break away from a glacier and create an iceberg?
    — CNN, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The beach gets its moniker from the icebergs that wash up on the black volcanic sand beach.
    — Mariette Williams, AFAR Media, 7 Apr. 2025
  • This week a giant city-sized iceberg split off an ice shelf in what part of the world?
    — CNN, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The bathing bear is the tip of an iceberg of gimmicks at Mabu.
    — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 14 July 2023
  • Companies like ours are the very tip of an iceberg.
    — Rob Collie, Fortune, 29 May 2026
  • The trench coat is just the tip of the design iceberg for Panichgul.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2021
  • The ailing iceberg may have also sprung a leak.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Then, near a large iceberg, the water began to move.
    — Jordi Lippe-McGraw, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 May 2026
  • In hindsight; the captain would have turned away from the iceberg.
    — Tim Britton, New York Times, 18 June 2025
  • But that’s just the tip of the next gen’s digital iceberg.
    — Jill Kargman, Architectural Digest, 16 June 2026
  • But as Wahlquist reports, new species are just the tip of the fishy iceberg.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 20 June 2017
  • Ships stand guard, ready to tow threatening icebergs away.
    — Paul Bierman, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2026
  • One of the oldest icebergs that has ever been tracked is feeling the blues.
    — Devika Rao, TheWeek, 14 Jan. 2026
  • And keep in mind that these are only the tip of the Twitter brain iceberg.
    — Steve King, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022

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