ice-covered

Example Sentences

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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

The sun is rising over the ice-covered mountains of Nuuk fjord and we are travelling along one of the world's last wild frontiers.

From BBC • Jan. 12, 2025

Handsome’s reflection pond stayed darkly ice-covered from morning to night.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el