ICY in a Sentence

Learn ICY 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.

59 example sentences for ICY, such as:

1. Rachel fixed him with an icy stare.
2. She tried to get a grip on the icy rock.
3. An icy wind blew hard across the open spaces.
4. He braced himself for the icy plunge into the black water.
5. Several pedestrians had come to grief on the icy pavement.

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 Meanings and Examples of ICY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
icy
 a.  devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain
 a.  covered with or containing or consisting of ice
Classic Sentence: (45 in 4 pages)
1  Its icy slope, scored by innumerable runners, looked like a mirror scratched by travellers at an inn.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  They strained their eyes at each other through the icy darkness.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
3  Her feet icy, she twisted and turned, unable to sleep, weighed down with fear and despair.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
4  It sleeted the next day, but as the wintry twilight drew on the icy particles stopped falling and a cold wind blew.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
5  Thank God, he still respected her icy request that he never put foot in her bedroom again, for if he saw her now, her face would give her away.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
6  She maintained an air of cool indifference that could speedily change to icy formality if anyone even dared hint about the matter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
7  She waded down stilly cloisters between burnt stump and icy oak, through drifts marked with a million hieroglyphics of rabbit and mouse and bird.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
8  It was like diving into icy water to climb out of the carriage, but on the ground she smiled at him, her face little and childish and pink above the buffalo robe over her shoulders.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
9  The recent thaw had disclosed heaps of ashes, dog-bones, torn bedding, clotted paint-cans, all half covered by the icy pools which filled the hollows of the yards.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
10  He was a long, earnest man, and though born on an icy coast, seemed well adapted to endure hot latitudes, his flesh being hard as twice-baked biscuit.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. Knights and Squires.
11  We went slowly up the icy path toward the door sunk in the drawside.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
12  We drove slowly away, against the fine, icy snow which cut our faces like a sand-blast.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVI
13  The young men capered along with their hands in their pockets, and sometimes tried a slide on the icy sidewalk.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VI
14  Then the icy teeth of the blast bit into him, and he turned and went away at a run.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
15  He went out, hunching his shoulders together and shivering at the touch of the icy rain.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 27
Example Sentence:
1  An icy wind blew hard across the open spaces.
2  Air travellers were left stranded because of icy conditions.
3  The door opened and an icy blast of wind swept through the room.
4  He braced himself for the icy plunge into the black water.
5  I try to figure to myself what would have happened if I had fallen into the icy water.
6  She needed all her powers of concentration to stop herself from slipping on the icy road.
7  She tried to get a grip on the icy rock.
8  Several pedestrians had come to grief on the icy pavement.
9  Rachel fixed him with an icy stare.
10  Instruments on board include the Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer which will analyse the chemical composition of the comet nucleus - the icy core in the head of the comet.
11  Instruments on board will analyze the chemical composition of the comet nucleus - the icy core in the head of the comet.
12  It also had hints for making snow forts, including "make sure to include an icy compartment to store your vodka."
13  The buses that failed to run were those that were temporarily stuck in stubborn, icy patches.
14  Icebreakers were needed to extricate the trapped whales from the icy floes that closed them in.