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
An ice floe detached from the shoreline of Upper Red Lake in Beltrami County, Minnesota, Friday, stranding the 122 ice fishermen on top of it.
From Washington Times • Dec. 30, 2023
It took about 2 1/2 hours to finally evacuate 122 people from the ice floe, and no injuries were reported, according to the sheriff’s office.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 29, 2023
There at the top, glittering like an ice floe, is Cullinan I, the Star of Africa, 530 carats of virtually perfect diamond-ness.
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2023
The men lay down to sleep on a floe that rose and fell at least a foot with the swell, and some of them felt seasick after so long on a motionless, frozen ocean.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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