How to Use ice sheet in a Sentence

ice sheet

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  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • That could change as the ice sheet itself becomes less stable.
    — Delger Erdenesanaa, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2023
  • And a warmer ocean tends to expand, which can lead to sea level rise along with melting ice sheets.
    — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2023
  • Then along comes an ice sheet that covers the ground a mile thick from the North Pole to Indianapolis.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Researchers in Greenland observed rain at the highest point of its ice sheet last year for the first time on record.
    — Jennifer Calfas, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2022
  • For most of the past few centuries, the ice sheet has been stable, as far as polar science can tell.
    — Ted Scambos, The Conversation, 7 June 2022
  • The vast ice sheet on the world’s largest island breaks up the ocean views in spectacular fashion.
    — David Nikel, Forbes, 14 May 2022
  • Their search spanned from mountain summits to the depths of the ocean, from the Antarctic ice sheet to tropical coral reefs.
    — Emily Wright, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
  • Loss of much of the West Antarctic ice sheet may already be unavoidable.
    — Matthew Dalton, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2023
  • During warmer months, meltwater pools into lakes and streams on the surface of the ice sheet.
    — Isabelle Jani-Friend, CNN, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Of the 3% that is fresh, most is locked in ice sheets and glaciers, many of which are melting rapidly into the oceans thanks to climate change.
    — Mark Gongloff, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2024
  • If that’s the case, then that’s a real ice sheet, obviously.
    — Vulture, 18 Apr. 2023
  • In Greenland, the ice sheet lost the equivalent of an Olympic-size swimming pool of ice every second in the mid-1990s.
    — Porter Fox, CNN, 29 Dec. 2021
  • According to the Ice Age Trail Alliance, colossal ice sheets, a type of glacier that covers a very large area, have gripped the the globe 15 times.
    — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 30 May 2023
  • One study analyzed the pebbles to understand the bedrock beneath the ice sheet.
    — Paul Bierman, Fortune, 24 July 2023
  • The Antarctic ice sheet contains 90% of the world’s fresh water, enough to raise sea level by around 60 meters.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 7 May 2022
  • That drives melting along its belly, making the ice sheet more prone to fracture.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 16 Feb. 2022

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