How to Use ice cap in a Sentence

ice cap

noun
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  • This latest report, on the oceans and ice caps, rounds out the trio.
    — Alejandra Borunda, National Geographic, 25 Sep. 2019
  • If hypocrisy were a greenhouse gas, the ice caps would be gone by now.
    — Jonah Goldberg, Alaska Dispatch News, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Since Rio, the Arctic ice cap has shrunk by two-fifths.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
  • As the Earth gets warmer, the polar ice caps melt and sea levels rise.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 27 Apr. 2018
  • My goodness, what’s happening to the ozone and the ice caps?
    — Liz Shannon Miller, The Verge, 2 July 2019
  • The water is trapped in ice caps, and the soil is alkaline and dry.
    — Sarah Rense, Esquire, 18 Jan. 2018
  • On view in the new image are storms, rings, moons and a gleaming polar ice cap.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The past decade was the warmest ever, and polar ice caps are melting six times faster than in the 1990s.
    — Christopher Flavelle, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2020
  • Over a four-year span, Greenland’s ice cap shed 1 trillion tons of ice.
    — Rob Nixon, Smithsonian, 23 Mar. 2018
  • More than 80 percent of the island is covered by an ice cap.
    — Fox News, 16 Aug. 2019
  • The ice cap that covers Antarctica isn’t a rigid whole.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 5 May 2022
  • The Red Planet has ice caps on its north and south poles, which grow in winter and melt some in summer.
    — Shannon Stirone, Wired, 4 Jan. 2020
  • Clouds swirl over the vast African continent and south polar ice cap, all set against the deep blue of our world's oceans.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The increase has been at least twice as high at the poles: bad news for ice caps and beachfront properties alike.
    — Gernot Wagner, Foreign Affairs, 27 Apr. 2015
  • The Arctic is a floating ice cap on an ocean penned in by continents.
    — Seth Borenstein, latimes.com, 1 July 2019
  • Greenland’s ice cap has taken thousands of years to form.
    — Charlotte Gray, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2020
  • The Red Planet’s polar ice caps, for example, grow in the winter and shrink in the summer.
    — Shannon Hall, New York Times, 5 July 2018
  • This was my sixth trip to Iceland but my first time tunneling through an ice cap.
    — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Those dark, stalactite streaks at the top of the image are not the result of a melting polar ice cap.
    — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Use tip-ups to suspend large, dead sucker minnows within five feet of the ice cap.
    — Outdoor Life, 17 Jan. 2020
  • The crooner’s gentle ballads were warm enough to melt the ice caps and the audience’s heartstrings.
    — Jordan Diaz, Billboard, 25 Apr. 2018
  • This includes the snow-and-ice cap sinking in the middle of the caldera at the summit of the volcano over the past few years, likely a sign of heat within the caldera.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2018
  • That rump of legacy estates is like the polar ice cap – shrinking over time.
    — Peter Bendor-Samuel, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Eventually these layers reach the surface of the ice cap with their loads of meteorites and the wind bares them to the sky.
    — Barry Lopez, Harper's magazine, 10 Jan. 2019
  • Passengers will be able to descend from the airship and enjoy a picnic on the ice cap.
    — Miquel Ros, CNN, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Adrenaline seekers may choose to go on a flight-seeing tour of Glacier Bay to get an aerial view of the jagged peaks and ice caps.
    — Maridel Reyes, Women's Health, 6 June 2023
  • Geologists have seen for the first time rapid ice loss at the Vavilov ice cap in the Arctic Circle.
    — Fox News, 18 Dec. 2019
  • From Tibet to the Arctic to Antarctica, glaciers and ice caps around the world are melting at alarming rates.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 23 Jan. 2020
  • To the right of center, a large canyon, Chasma Boreale, almost bisects the ice cap.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Water was first discovered on Mars in 2020, it was frozen in polar ice caps.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2024

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