How to Use icehouse in a Sentence

icehouse

noun
  • And every juice house and icehouse, as bars are known around here, loads up the jukebox with country blues.
    — Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2017
  • The building is more than 100 years old and has housed an icehouse, a train station and a dive bar.
    — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 21 Feb. 2020
  • From the icehouse to the auction house, a pall hangs over the fabled wharves in New Bedford.
    — David Abel, BostonGlobe.com, 7 May 2018
  • Once stored in an icehouse, the blocks of ice were covered with sawdust or straw to help prevent ice blocks from adhering to one another.
    — Philip Potempa, Post-Tribune, 29 June 2018
  • Nearly every hospital in the South built a commercial-sized icehouse on its grounds.
    — Amy Brady, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Three of the harbor's seven icehouses were located at the base of Federal Hill.
    — Baltimore Sun, baltimoresun.com, 17 Aug. 2017
  • The Remington icehouse, with its solid stone walls, is now a collection of artisan’s studios.
    — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Sullivan can recall the thrilling chill of her dad's icehouse and the burgers her mother would fry up in a cast-iron skillet on summer trips to the lakes around Fairmont.
    — Curt Brown, Star Tribune, 29 Aug. 2020
  • Elsewhere on the grounds is an artesian well, three ponds -- one stocked with catfish -- two barns, storage facilities, corrals and a pavilion that doubles as an icehouse.
    — Darla Guillen Gilthorpe, Houston Chronicle, 12 Nov. 2019
  • The warm greenhouse climate became dramatically colder, creating an icehouse at the poles that has continued to the present day.
    — Anamaria Silic, Discover Magazine, 26 Jan. 2021
  • Outside, several outbuildings were built on the 17-acre property, including an icehouse, a library, a boathouse and gardeners’ cottages.
    — Jaci Conry, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2020
  • So, during an icehouse period, the difference between equatorial regions and high latitudes is on the order of 30° to 50° C.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 20 Sep. 2024
  • At my neighborhood icehouse the regular customers were reading the papers and talking about times when cattle and other animals were the main draw at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.
    — Leon Hale, Houston Chronicle, 17 Feb. 2026
  • So advertises the website of the BBC, which is running a two-part documentary on the scientific quest for the coldest temperature conceivable — a quest that started in the days of alchemy and icehouses and continues in modern physics labs.
    — Brandon Keim, WIRED, 25 July 2007
  • In contrast, during icehouse climates, the carbon sequestration into Earth's oceans dominated, lowering atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and triggering cooling.
    — Ben Mather, Space.com, 7 Feb. 2026

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