Sentence examples for ice slippery from inspiring English sources
"Black Ice," "Slippery Roads".
Besides making ice slippery, says Somorjai, the liquidlike layer could help explain how ice crystals in the upper atmosphere help catalyze the chemical reactions that deplete ozone.
Early Sunday morning, ice and slippery conditions closed the George Mason Drive overpass over Interstate 66 in Arlington.
Textured glass floors and stairs are, unlike ice, neither slippery nor invisible.
The secret to what makes ice so slippery may have been solved, thanks to a team of European researchers.
But a fresh coat of snow was making the ice less slippery, and even the burliest of trainees were finding it nearly impossible to overcome the friction.
Somorjai's research, for example, has helped explain why ozone is destroyed in the stratosphere – due to reactions on the surface of microscopic crystals, and why ice is slippery.
"To me, one important aspect is the technological importance of what we did, but the other important part is the conceptual understanding of how surfaces work," he said, noting that there is still much to learn about why ice is slippery and concrete is not.
"I'm not sure what connection there is to be made," she wrote in an e-mail message, "between choreographic choices of dramatic themes to dramatic music and the fact that ice is slippery and sometimes results in dangerous and/or visually spectacular falls".
"Sweepers" use brooms to make sections of the ice more slippery, thereby directing as they slide.
