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
A second sits near the seasonal edge of the ice in September, and the third was consistently ice-covered in 1980 but now experiences periodic ice-free conditions.
From Science Daily • Nov. 13, 2025
His beard was like a forest of ice-covered trees in midwinter, his eyebrows like a field of thistles, his breath as rank and foul as a midden in a bog.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
