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

Evidence for such tipping points is growing — for example in the unexpectedly rapid melting of the Arctic icecap.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2020

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

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2017

But the Fortress was weeks away by foot, and no plane had ever landed intentionally on the jagged, crevasse-slashed icecap.

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