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

For he discovered skeleton, or as he describes it hurtling down the ice-covered track head first on a "very expensive tea tray."

From Barron's • Feb. 14, 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

Bright sunshine glints off the Arctic waters below the main street, and the flat-topped, snow and ice-covered mountains all around.

From BBC • May 23, 2025

He flopped down onto the ground with his face near enough to the fire to thaw his ice-covered nose but not burn it.

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