icebound
Example Sentences
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NUUK, Greenland—In a squat building at the center of this icebound capital, Greenland’s prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, addressed a hastily convened press conference to reassure his 57,000 compatriots.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2026
The icebound river landscape may be at least 34 million years old, meaning that it would date to right before ice encrusted Antarctica.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 3, 2023
As diphtheria - a serious and sometimes fatal bacterial infection - spread among Nome's people, its port was icebound, meaning antitoxin would have to be delivered overland.
From Reuters ● Apr. 27, 2023
Winters, we can look across the vast eastward miles, and regard with pity the icebound, housebound millions in the manacles of winter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2022
With deft strokes she chopped a hole in the icebound lake, soaked the grass sticks, and laid them out in the air to freeze.
From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George
