Sentence examples for * icebreaking from inspiring English sources

The US air force diverted its largest cargo plane from Japan to bring in an 11-tonne amphibious icebreaking tractor from Prudhoe Bay, then came not one, but two Soviet ships, the icebreaker Admiral Makarov and a cargo ship, the Arsenev.

"It would be very nice to have more icebreaking capability".

Earlier icebreaking attempts to reach the ship failed because of the thickness of the ice.

A measure of its awkwardness: "And what kind of name is that?" Lawrence asks Rasheed, attempting icebreaking chitchat.

The Taliban men were ignorant of diplomatic niceties, and Richardson's icebreaking small talk was met by incomprehension.

By now, L'Astrolabe had arrived at the ice edge, but its icebreaking capability was even less than Xue Long's.

Together they offer an icebreaking introduction to an art that to anyone who doesn't know Chinese can seem unapproachable.

But since navigational aids can be caught in the ice and carried downstream, icebreaking is not conducted at night.

As an icebreaking exercise, Vernacchio had the participants pronounce a sexual term, in a tone of voice indicated by a word on a card.

The BoM will get a new "supercomputer" and the government will buy a new icebreaking ship to support Australia's Antarctic research stations.

In some countries coast guard duties include icebreaking in inland waterways and the collection and dissemination of meteorological data pertaining to floods, hurricanes, and storms.