Example sentences for: ice-skating

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

  • The strokes are isolated and tentative, gliding over the smooth paint surface like someone ice-skating the day after a cast comes off.

  • Remember the scene in Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint where the newly teen-aged Alex Portnoy goes to a frozen pond in his hometown of Newark to gaze upon gentile girls ice-skating?

  • By the time Portnoy's Complaint came out, in 1969, it was clear--and this was part of the joke of the ice-skating scene--that people like awkward Alex were going to wind up ahead of the gliding shiksas and their halfback brothers, because they were more book-smart.

  • (Since Nike doesn't make ice-skating equipment, that's the closest Knight could come to subsidizing that sport's biggest asshole.)

  • Cross the bridge over the boating lake, which doubles as an ice-skating rink in winter.


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