How to Use ice sheet in a Sentence

ice sheet

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  • That meant any wet streets were in danger of becoming ice sheets.
    — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 24 Mar. 2024
  • But warmer ocean water is also eroding the ice sheet around the edges.
    — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 29 July 2021
  • High on Greenland’s ice sheet, researchers are drilling boreholes this week.
    — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 14 July 2021
  • With more warm days the main ice sheet weakens and begins to fracture in large sections, some moved by wind.
    — Jim Gilbert, Star Tribune, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Checking into an Airbnb on that chunk of freshly afloat Greenlandic ice sheet.
    — Scott Jacobson, The New Yorker, 3 July 2021
  • Melting its ice sheet completely would eventually raise global sea level by 7 metres.
    — Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 20 May 2021
  • The Greenland ice sheet that covers roughly 79% of Greenland continued to shrink.
    — Disha Shetty, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Future warming, however, will force the Greenland ice sheet to recede away from the coast too soon to deliver enough fresh water by iceberg.
    — Jerry McManus, The Conversation, 30 May 2024
  • Scientists have long known that the Antarctic ice sheet has physical tipping points, beyond which ice loss can accelerate out of control.
    — Andrea Dutton, The Conversation, 17 May 2021
  • Massive amounts of fresh water are sloughing off the ice sheet and flowing into the North Atlantic, which disrupts one of the circulation’s driving forces: salt.
    — Angela Dewan, CNN, 3 Aug. 2024
  • Greenland's melting ice sheet is exposing rare-earth minerals, drawing outside investment from nations such as China.
    — Gloria Dickie, Scientific American, 18 May 2021
  • Juno will bring new tools with which to study this ice sheet.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 29 Sep. 2022
  • For the scientists out on the ice sheet, the warmth has been alarming.
    — René Marsh and Angela Fritz, CNN, 20 July 2022
  • The ice shelf is one of the restraining forces holding the ice sheet back.
    — Ted Scambos, The Conversation, 7 June 2022
  • The method is ice sheets, which are bed linens dunked in ice water and wrapped around the body.
    — Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 17 July 2024
  • The seven years with the greatest melting of the ice sheets have occurred in the last decade.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Glaciers are riddled with cracks in the ice sheet known as crevasses.
    — Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 3 Feb. 2024
  • The weight of the ice sheet has had an incredible impact on the bedrock.
    — David Nikel, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Think of an ice shelf as a cork that’s keeping the rest of the glacier, that ice sheet, from sliding into the ocean.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 16 Feb. 2022
  • In Greenland, these warm rivers in the sky also play a role in melting the ice sheet.
    — Kasha Patel, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2021
  • The 75-year-old made just two attempts at sliding a curling stone across the ice sheet at the Oval.
    — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 May 2022
  • The ice sheet was named for that group: El Glaciar de los Polacos.
    — John Branch, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2023
  • His staff was able to relieve some of the pressure against the dam by making large cuts across the ice sheet.
    — CBS News, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The ice sheet at Pemaquid measured as much as two miles thick.
    — Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The ice sheets have barely moved due to a lack of wind this week, officials said.
    — Liza Esquibias, Peoplemag, 7 Feb. 2024
  • In each case, ocean warming was just too much for this section of the ice sheet to survive, the study found.
    — Seth Borenstein, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The Coast Guard rescued 18 people from an ice sheet that broke away in Lake Erie over the weekend.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2022
  • The world’s ice sheets and glaciers are losing a whopping 1.2 trillion tons of ice each year.
    — E&e News, Scientific American, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Drone shots of glaciers smashing into the sea beneath the Greenland ice sheet.
    — WIRED, 18 Sep. 2022
  • The Antarctic ice sheet is the largest in the world, accounting for over 62% of Earth’s freshwater.
    — Sulagna Chattopadhyay, Quartz, 15 Dec. 2021

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