How to Use pack ice in a Sentence

pack ice

noun
  • The ship got stuck in pack ice, which closed in around its hull.
    — Tim Jarvis, Quartz, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Females haul out onto pack ice to give birth and nurse their pups.
    — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 2 May 2019
  • Preferably, strong east winds pack ice into the west end.
    — David Zeug, Outdoor Life, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The Chukchi Sea, clear of pack ice, spawns dire winter storms.
    — Richard Adams Carey, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2021
  • The hull is designed to ride up on pack ice and use the ship's weight and forward motion to break through.
    — Michael S. Lockett, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Nov. 2019
  • That year in Point Lay, the pack ice created an open lead very near shore.
    — Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The Endurance sank in 1915, after it was trapped in dense pack ice.
    — Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Disaster struck in 1915 when the ship became trapped in the pack ice.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Mar. 2022
  • That summer, the island remained surrounded by thick pack ice.
    — Ailsa Ross, Longreads, 4 Apr. 2023
  • But as the expedition advanced, the ship was caught in pack ice and unable to make further progress.
    — Alex Lazarow, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
  • The space professional does pack ice cream — at least in the museum gift-shop version of the job.
    — Leah Eskin, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2018
  • Fill the center with the chocolate ice cream, pressing lightly to pack ice cream in fairly tightly.
    — Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2020
  • They are found in all deep oceans, from the equator to the edge of the pack ice in the Arctic and Antarctic.
    — al, 23 Nov. 2020
  • After identifying their target sitting on a piece of pack ice, a group of killer whales swims a little ways away from it.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 8 Apr. 2011
  • The ultimate bastion for Russian submarines is in the far north, under the pack ice.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2021
  • This year, according to the assessment, old ice accounted for less than 5 percent of the pack ice.
    — New York Times, 8 Dec. 2020
  • The edge of the Arctic pack ice straggled near Dutch whaling stations, and whales gathered along the edge of the ice.
    — Natasha Gural, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
  • This motion on the Venusian surface looks like blocks of crust that have moved against one another, much like broken chunks of pack ice.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 21 June 2021
  • Such resolution is vital in winter darkness and dense pack ice, where cracks or holes, portals to air, open in less than three per cent of the frozen sea.
    — Marguerite Holloway, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Then came the pack ice—millions of jagged pieces, breaking up in the late Arctic spring, a sea of brilliant white fragments against the deep, dark blue.
    — Ben Taub, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • The missile-firing submarines were designed to operate in the Arctic under pack ice.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 May 2022
  • The missile-firing submarines were designed to operate in the Arctic under pack ice.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 May 2022
  • Jones’s yellow plastic disc does not look much different now from when Matthews released it on the pack ice in 1979.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 30 Nov. 2019
  • In the era of climate change, Arctic pack ice melts enough during summer months to temporarily open shipping lanes for freighters and cruise ships.
    — Gregory Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 19 Oct. 2019
  • In another, the British Terra Nova ship is surrounded by pack ice.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2023
  • They often are found at the outer margins of shifting ice floes and rarely in areas of dense pack ice, NOAA says.
    — Washington Post, 13 June 2019
  • Most Svalbard itineraries will also spend a day sailing to the edge of the pack ice, which runs all the way up to the North Pole.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 June 2026
  • Off the coast of Antarctica, Endurance became trapped by drifting pack ice—giant icebergs that form in the fall and winter.
    — Frederick Dreier, Outside, 7 Oct. 2025
  • However, nearing Antarctica, the ship became trapped in pack ice and sank in 1915.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Until then the Polarstern will be drifting with the pack ice for hundreds of miles, near the North Pole and across the Arctic.
    — Henry Fountain, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2020

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