How to Use ice over/up in a Sentence

ice over/up

phrasal verb
Definition of ice over/upnext
  • Then the piece is slid across the ice over to the circle.
    — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Feb. 2022
  • One day, Oleg wandered across a frozen lake and broke through the ice up to his shins.
    — Longreads, 2 Mar. 2022
  • In our current house in LaGrange, the ice over the porch was bad but the one above the bedroom was worse.
    — Doug George, chicagotribune.com, 23 Feb. 2021
  • In these areas, the rain may just run off rather than ice over surfaces.
    — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The only drawbacks are that lines still ice up during the day and holes freeze at night.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Heat the dent using a hairdryer, cover the area with a sheet of aluminum foil, and rub dry ice over it.
    — Jeff Harper, chicagotribune.com, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Capobianco sent a long pass from the other end of the ice up to Eriksson who took the puck toward the net for his goal.
    — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 18 Apr. 2022
  • On heavy powder days, the slide-out mechanism can ice up.
    — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Ice will be thinner where there is an active beaver run; sometimes there will just be a skim of ice over the top.
    — Joseph Biebert, Outdoor Life, 3 Apr. 2023
  • At one point, employees even went out to purchase bags of ice over the weekend to keep food safe.
    — Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Hull also had several troubling episodes off the ice over the years.
    — Kevin Allen, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Williams: Literally, the glass of water next to my bed would ice over.
    — Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 12 May 2021
  • If necessary, place a resealable bag filled with ice over the stain to harden the sap first.
    — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Dec. 2021
  • The remaining open ocean around the boat would ice over, and three million square miles of liquid would turn solid in the span of a few short weeks.
    — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 1 May 2022
  • Ice that formed over those cracks in the road was less perfect than ice over the smooth asphalt, and was more vulnerable to forces from above.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Jan. 2022
  • Will Cube's career be put on ice over his vaccine refusal?
    — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The skateway was created in 1971, when a team of NCC employees used brooms and shovels to clear a small section on the ice over the canal.
    — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2023
  • If that happens, the models suggest the ice sheet could lose 14 trillion to 36 trillion tons of ice over the course of this century.
    — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2020
  • He was last seen Tuesday night around 10:45 p.m. on foot, when the weather was continuing to ice over.
    — Dallas News, 1 Feb. 2023
  • But as a look through NHL history shows, some truly horrendous teams have taken the ice over the years.
    — Jace Evans, USA TODAY, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Heavy ice over southeast Minnesota with 2 inches of ice on wires near Winona.
    — Star Tribune, 21 Feb. 2021
  • Glaciers form when snow is compacted into ice over hundreds of years.
    — Marissa Grunes, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
  • After all, Bestgen said, bass evolved to endure waters that ice over in winter.
    — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 19 July 2022
  • This might occur because the thinner ice over a trench sags like a flimsy bridge; as the ice flexes downward, its bulging belly cracks open.
    — Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Outlying areas could see slick roads early in the day as moisture from Wednesday’s rain may ice over.
    — oregonlive, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Does this year's dramatic drop mark a shift toward declining Antarctic sea ice over the long run?
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 23 Mar. 2022
  • But the weather service said that worsening conditions could cause trees and power lines to ice over and lead to outages.
    — Dallas News, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Monahon was told to pack her bags, and the next morning joined a group trying to navigate a safe route across the sea ice over eight days to resupply a tiny U.S. outpost.
    — Nick Perry, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Meanwhile, snow and sleet up to an inch and ice up to a tenth of an inch are possible in Springfield, Missouri, and ice accumulation up to a tenth of an inch in St. Louis.
    — Rob Shackelford, CNN, 30 Jan. 2023
  • That’s expected to create a slick layer of ice over everything.
    — oregonlive, 21 Dec. 2022

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