Example sentences for: ice-cream

How can you use “ice-cream” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • On my entry into the Navy in 1942, gedunk was already well established to refer to any ice-cream dish with toppings or additions.

  • Making plain a mystery, "is three-flavor ice-cream: strawberry, chocolate and vanilla."

  • That, as we all know, is a forlorn hope (to abuse a Dutch cliché): those who “know” that when two or more people or things are the subject of a verb you have to use were , not was , regardless of the context, are like those who “know” (like the people at Elizabeth Arden) that millennium is spelled with one n, who “know” that it is Parmagiana , not Parmigiana (like the people at Burger King), and who have no doubt that baking soda, baking powder, washing soda, and ice-cream soda are all the same thing.

  • You may also catch the sound of jingling bells signaling that the local ice-cream seller is around.

  • On entering the Naval Academy in 1944, I found that a small ice-cream bar in the basement of Bancroft Hall (immidiately under the main entrance and limited to upperclass midshipmen) was semi-officially known as “The Gedunk” (pronounced “gee-dunk,” with a hard g )--although the wares themselves were never called gedunks, but “chocolate sodas,” “sundaes.”


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