floe

Example Sentences

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Ms Homendy said recovery workers were dealing with deteriorating weather conditions and that the wreckage had landed on an ice floe which is moving at a rate of five miles a day.

From BBC • Feb. 8, 2025

A traditional diorama of polar bears on an ice floe hardly needs any changes in presentation or interpretation to take on new meanings in our era of climate change.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 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

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

As Orde-Lees had reached the opposite side of the floe, the leopard seal burst up out of the water in front of him, jaws agape.

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