Example sentences for: icy

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

  • One of the more hazardous ways down, and so a favorite with children, is the Escalier Casse-Cou (Breakneck Stairway), merely dangerous when wet, lethal when icy.

  • A profile of Lynne Cox describes how the solo swimmer conquered fear by braving icy, shark-infested waters.

  • If you feel drawn by a rendezvous with the Midnight Sun, make for these immense lands covering one-third of Canada’s total surface, where, compared to the icy expanses inside the Arctic Circle, the tundra passes for lush meadowland.

  • Videotapes of Clinton press secretary Mike McCurry's icy comments about the rebellious Freeh were repeatedly unspooled.

  • The paper's television critic began a story this way: “It is a mean, cold morning down at CHCH-TV, where the media has been invited to risk its collective life on the icy highway from Toronto to Hamilton [to preview a series premiere].”


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