icecap

Example Sentences

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We dug deep channels into the icecap and ran hundreds of meters worth of cable, we used chainsaws to cut blocks of ice that had encased the station's pillar supports.

From Salon • May 29, 2023

Many natural processes can provide this tiny increment of stress, including the movement of plate tectonics, a melting icecap, and even human activities.

From Salon • Feb. 24, 2017

To hazards like icecap cracks, nuclear leaks and rising seas, add another environmental threat: language fallout.

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2017

Simultaneously, the dark patches between the icecap and the Martian equator grow darker progressively, the color change advancing in a sort of wave at about 28 miles a day.

From Time Magazine Archive

The serious, systematic study of medicine was intensifying, and to scientists the human body was like the polar icecap, something to be studied and explored.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson