floe

Example Sentences

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Members of the public alerted the local authorities when they saw a man going onto an ice floe to approach the animal.

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2024

The emergency responders were able to rescue those four people from the floe at around 6:40 p.m.

From Washington Times • Dec. 30, 2023

They were brought back to the ice floe to warm in a fishing shelter, the sheriff’s office said.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 29, 2023

Frederik Bussmann took water samples from the edge of an ice floe on the Arctic Ocean last month.Credit...

From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2023

After two hours of backbreaking labor, hauling the boats through wet, heavy snow, detouring around piles of broken floe, they were only one mile from Endurance.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong