broken ice


nounOceanography.
  1. sea ice that covers from 50 to 80 percent of the surface of water in any particular area.

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How to use broken ice in a sentence

  • Nobody knew just what to do, it was so hard to get to him on the broken ice, and the man couldn't swim.

    The Story of the Big Front Door | Mary Finley Leonard
  • Ahead of us was a glittering line of broken ice, stretching at right angles to our path.

    The Home of the Blizzard | Douglas Mawson
  • Retracing the way out of the broken ice, we steered in a south-westerly direction, just above the line of serac and crevassed ice.

    The Home of the Blizzard | Douglas Mawson
  • Something had happened, and though Harky did not know what it was, he suspected that the broken ice provided the proper clue.

    The Duck-footed Hound | James Arthur Kjelgaard
  • Harky and Mun, who'd lingered near the broken ice for the better part of an hour, would have heard her bark.

    The Duck-footed Hound | James Arthur Kjelgaard