ICING in a Sentence

Learn ICING from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

186 example sentences for ICING, such as:

1. His firm is just on thin ice of bankruptcy.
2. Walk slowly on the ice,otherwise you'll fall.
3. The iceboat set out to chop a hole in the ice.
4. She slipped over on the ice and broke her leg.
5. The bird picked a hole in the ice with its beak.

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 Meanings and Examples of ICING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
icing
 n.  coating or covering resembling ice, as of sugar and milk or white of egg; frosting
Classic Sentence: (121 in 9 pages)
1  Grandmother began to make the icing for a chocolate cake, and Otto again filled the house with the exciting, expectant song of the plane.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV
2  She decided to buy some plumcake but Downes's plumcake had not enough almond icing on top of it so she went over to a shop in Henry Street.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In CLAY
3  About two o'clock the mist cleared away, and we beheld, stretched out in every direction, vast and irregular plains of ice, which seemed to have no end.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 4
4  We watched the rapid progress of the traveller with our telescopes until he was lost among the distant inequalities of the ice.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 4
5  Shut in, however, by ice, it was impossible to follow his track, which we had observed with the greatest attention.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 4
6  About two hours after this occurrence we heard the ground sea, and before night the ice broke and freed our ship.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 4
7  We, however, lay to until the morning, fearing to encounter in the dark those large loose masses which float about after the breaking up of the ice.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 4
8  It was, in fact, a sledge, like that we had seen before, which had drifted towards us in the night on a large fragment of ice.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 4
9  Once, however, the lieutenant asked why he had come so far upon the ice in so strange a vehicle.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 4
10  Soon after this he inquired if I thought that the breaking up of the ice had destroyed the other sledge.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 4
11  For some time I sat upon the rock that overlooks the sea of ice.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
12  The field of ice is almost a league in width, but I spent nearly two hours in crossing it.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
13  The sea, or rather the vast river of ice, wound among its dependent mountains, whose aerial summits hung over its recesses.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
14  He bounded over the crevices in the ice, among which I had walked with caution; his stature, also, as he approached, seemed to exceed that of man.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
15  I have wandered here many days; the caves of ice, which I only do not fear, are a dwelling to me, and the only one which man does not grudge.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
Example Sentence: (65 in 5 pages)
16  Walk slowly on the ice,otherwise you'll fall.
17  A fan at my window blew over a block of ice molded in a bowl in my freezer.
18  His firm is just on thin ice of bankruptcy.
19  The stream has frozen up; you can see the fish trapped in the ice.
20  The ice clinked as she dropped it into the glass.
21  Caviar and oysters on ice are generally considered the ultimate luxury foods.
22  Water is changed into steam by heat and into ice by cold.
23  She hacked away at the ice, trying to make a hole.
24  The iceboat set out to chop a hole in the ice.
25  The bird picked a hole in the ice with its beak.
26  It's an interesting suggestion and we'll keep it on ice.
27  She slipped over on the ice and broke her leg.
28  She sucked an ice cube into her mouth, and crunched it loudly.
29  The mass of ice choked up the mouth of the stream and ponded back the water.
30  I still remember the mountains in the north, locked in snow and ice.