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How to use icebound in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word icebound? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Cape Farewell is a series of expeditions into the Arctic, through a previously icebound but now passable route.
He starts in Ancient Egypt and travels in time through 11 tableaux, ending in the icebound twilight of humanity.
Enceladus and Europa, for instance, are two icebound moons in the local solar system with surface temperatures hundreds of degrees below zero.
In the spring Lake Laberge remained icebound for several week after the river opened.
The lake freezes only near the land, and its harbours are icebound from mid-December to mid-April.
The death toll was reported at 42, though newspaper reports speculated that some bodies would never be recovered from the icebound river.
Cold northern winters ensured that the river was icebound for at least seven months of the year.
During the icebound 1993-94 winter season, some remains of autumn's leaves persisted under the blanket of ice until spring.
The message revealed that both ships had been icebound for approximately one and half years.
A sturdy ship built for breaking a passage through icebound waters.
Both voyages ended icebound in the Kara Sea.
They can also become icebound, and sometimes the wind blows so strongly no sailing vessel can make headway against it.
Weapons for hunting and fishing, tools for cutting and sawing the ice, and dynamite and special anchors to free icebound vessels were all taken aboard.
One theory of what happened next, based on examples of other icebound ships found thousands of kilometres from their last sightings, is that Erebus and Terror drifted southwest of the island with the ice floes and icebergs.
In April 1895 the Norwegian explorers Fridtjof Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen struck out for the Pole on skis after leaving Nansen's icebound ship Fram.
Examples from Classical Literature
They, too, feed the northern health stations in icebound ports where submersibles dare not rise.
Rather they seemed places for summer trips alone, to be left in winter icebound and desolate.
I look down at the little stream and the little mill that has been icebound all the winter, and I stop.
For one thing, it is always ice-free, whereas the eastern route is icebound for five months in the year.
Deep was the silence of the icebound shore that day, sparkling the blue waters across which the sun marked a glittering track.
Port at Libau, on the Baltic, is in a region less liable to be icebound in the winter.
It was a daring venture, but the expedition was ill-equipped to battle with the icebound seas of the frozen north.
Starting from Toronto, it includes overnight halts at icebound Winnipeg, isolated Edmonton and quaint Jasper en route Vancouver.
The newcomer vainly strove to move his icebound jaws and jowls.
He has wandered far from his icebound southern temples in search of adventure.
Before them stretched tumbled hills, converging on an icebound lake.
They've had to wake even earlier than usual to warm up four-wheel-drive vehicles and make plans to transport icebound employees to work.
Were the Reds engaged in enlarging their icebound headquarters?
In January 1925, an outbreak of diphtheria had killed two children and was spreading quickly in Nome, a town in Alaska of about 1,400 that was icebound seven months a year.
It is a century since Shackleton's famous expeditionary party was forced to abandon the ship Endurance after it became icebound, ending their hopes of reaching the South Pole.
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