ice-covered
Example Sentences
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They drove snowmobiles across ice-covered terrain, navigating blizzards and high winds as they travelled for hours between remote northern communities.
From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026
Greenland’s 56,000 inhabitants are spread across a mostly ice-covered area more than three times the size of Texas, with no roads connecting any settlements.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026
The only routes out for Nuuk's 20,000 residents are by air and by sea, as the ice-covered territory lacks roads.
From Barron's • Jan. 17, 2026
Though it’s largely uninhabited—with just 56,000 residents, most of them Inuits—Greenland does hold massive, though ice-covered, mineral deposits.
From Slate • Jan. 8, 2026
His beard was like a forest of ice-covered trees in midwinter, his eyebrows like a field of thistles, his breath as rank and foul as a midden in a bog.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
