Sentence examples for floating chunks from inspiring English sources

By 63º latitude, the sea had become calm, its motion dampened by floating chunks of ice, some as big as tennis courts, others several times bigger than the ship.

The freshwater surfer, who might be anywhere from Wyoming to Wisconsin, must be doggedly determined, forever searching for waves and often contending with challenging conditions — shallow and rocky riverbeds, floating chunks of ice in winter (and, in the case of the Great Lakes, fall and spring, too) and roiling waters.

On Thursday, a group of tourists ventured onto floating chunks of ice at Jokulsarlon glacial lagoon in south-east Iceland, the second group to do so in a week.

There are towering behemoths of ancient ice in Antarctica, but there are also football fields of floating chunks that make sailing a real pain.

New research published in Nature Geoscience suggests that the floating chunks of ice that extend off land into the ocean in Antarctica, known as ice shelfs, could double their rate of melt by 2050 if the world sticks with its current levels of greenhouse gas emissions.

There are three different categories of ice: the ice sheet (enormous layers of ice that sit on land, whether that land is above or below sea level); the ice shelf (parts of the ice sheet that flow from the land into the ocean and begin to calve, or shed chunks of ice as icebergs) and sea ice (floating chunks of ice that grow and shrink with the seasons).

The scale of the task is enormous.This flat expanse of white is the Ross Ice Shelf, a floating chunk of ice nearly as large as Texas.

She floated chunks of ice she'd hammered from the block and told him they were icebergs, and he a sea captain, and it was his job to make sure the ship didn't run aground.

The next day, we left grandparents and kids behind (again), to hike to Goat Lake, another off-trail "attraction" in the area, still floating with chunks of ice.

A front-page picture caption on Feb. 3 about polar bears floating on chunks of glacial ice, illustrating an article on a global warming report, carried incorrect information from the Canadian Ice Service about when and where the photograph was taken, and about who took it.

Yummmm, floating meat chunks in fizzy pop.