break ice

How to use break ice in a sentence

• December 13, cold and wet snow: the first day so wintry that Roland Moore rode out to his stock tank to break ice.

  The Ballad of Johnny France | Richard Ben Cramer | January 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST

• You may break ice by force into a thousand pieces,—it is ice still; but expose it to the warm sun, and behold!

  Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou | Maturin M. Ballou

• Every morning I bathed in the ocean, even if I had to break ice to find water, and then I rolled in the snow.

  Our Little Alaskan Cousin | Mary F. Nixon-Roulet