Sentence examples for has been ice from inspiring English sources

"The sleeping giant... has been ice in the major ice sheets of Greenland and the Antarctic... the giant is no longer asleep," he says.

That mattered because this year is the 100th anniversary of the first race across frozen canals through 11 cities in the north, and it has been repeated every year in the past century when there has been ice.

"I was a school teacher, and I made sure my schedule met with Meryl's so I could pick her up after school and drive her to the rink," says Cheryl Davis, whose daughter began figure skating lessons when she was 5 and has been ice dancing since she was 8. "We had a van tall enough that Meryl could stand up and change her clothes and eat her snack on the way.

For example, if the moraine contains sand and silt as well as rocks, this can make the surface slippery, and when there has been ice melt and refreeze, there can be a lot of mud as well.

On the other side of the ocean the Parry Channel, a part of the Northwest Passage which has been ice-free in previous years, this year stayed resolutely impassable.Such quirks will make the Arctic an unpredictable place to work.

So another big reform topic has been iced for the foreseeable future.

In recent summers, the Northwest Passage has been ice-free.

"He has been icing his hamstring continually throughout the day," Howley said.

The Barent Sea has been ice-free and open during summer for the past four years.

The Arctic Ocean has been ice-free during the summer many times throughout the Quaternary Period [ 1], most recently only 8000 years ago [ 2].

If it had been ice under foot he would have found traction.