Sentence examples for Large chunks of ice from inspiring English sources

Large chunks of ice can be seen in the image from 2009, when the glacier began to float.

Swimming with her head down, she was nearly knocked unconscious by large chunks of ice.

Marc preferred red wine, which in Greenland usually had large chunks of ice floating in it.

The large chunks of ice are impermeable to the salt water, resulting in clean water when melted.

Organisers had feared that large chunks of ice would impede the process, but recent warm temperatures kept the river clear.

These large chunks of ice (some extend several kilometres in length) then drift with the current toward temperate latitudes.

Heated to 32 degrees Fahrenheit, a sample of soil being analyzed by NASA's Phoenix Mars lander let out a puff of vapor, providing final confirmation that the lander is sitting over a large chunk of ice.

In the meantime, using a combination of field measurements, satellite data and computer models, researchers have been trying to figure out the likelihood that a large chunk of ice will break off — and how that could affect the remaining ice shelf.

Last week, a large chunk of ice broke off from Greenland's Petermann Glacier.

Taking out such a large chunk of ice would mean the Larsen C shelf would lose more than 10% of its area.

In independent work, astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the University of Hawaii, the University of Arizona, and an amateur in New Mexico have now spotted a wanderer like the ones in the model: an unusually large chunk of ice 490 kilometers across lying just beyond Neptune.