cut ice

Example Sentences

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“We were the only ones that cut ice for everybody on the post,” Sgt.

From New York Times • Sep. 10, 2021

“We cut ice … up on the reservoir,” said Sanders, who joined the 10th Cavalry at West Point in 1939 and served until 1962.

From Washington Post • Feb. 22, 2021

But chivalrous ardor no longer cut ice as an alibi for presumption.

From The New Yorker • May 6, 2019

“In winter, they’d cut ice from the river and haul it into the caves,” Bowen said.

From Washington Times • Mar. 21, 2015

We’d open up the store at seven a.m. and Sam would saw lumber, cut ice, stack the meats out, stock the shelves, feed the cow in the backyard, all before we Ieft for school.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride