How to Use ice sheet in a Sentence

ice sheet

noun
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  • The top of the ice sheet warms and melts, and the water runs off into the ocean.
    — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 1 May 2020
  • 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
  • The Greenland ice sheet has been in trouble for some time.
    — Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 24 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • The ice sheet would have dwindled slowly, like an ice cube moved from the freezer to the fridge.
    — Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • But as the Southern Hemisphere warms—and the ice sheet melts at faster rates—the risk could be rising.
    — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 27 Aug. 2020
  • The ice sheet was named for that group: El Glaciar de los Polacos.
    — John Branch, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Some of the mass loss comes from melting ice shelves, and some of it comes from melting on the surface of the ice sheet.
    — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • But warmer ocean water is also eroding the ice sheet around the edges.
    — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 29 July 2021
  • The loss of the Thwaites glacier could trigger the broader collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2020
  • These glaciers make up about 12% of the entire ice sheet and hold enough ice to raise sea levels by about 4.3 feet.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 5 Aug. 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
  • Marine heat waves also speed up the melting of ice sheets and kill off fish stocks and wildlife.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 24 June 2023
  • The wind is also kicking up snow from the surface of the adjacent ice sheet, which created streams of white across the scene.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024
  • When continental ice sheets melt at the end of ice ages, the Earth’s crust has to compensate for the loss of mass in a process similar to what’s happening at Mount Everest.
    — Rudy Molinek, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Oct. 2024

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