Sentence examples for ice upon which from inspiring English sources

On their faces were smiles as frozen as the ice upon which they glided.

Indeed, Obama's likeability (still at an astounding 80%) is the thin ice upon which his presidency skates.

Most recently, in March 2007, representatives of the indigenous Inuit people argued before the Inter-American Commission on Human Righthethat the United States is violating their rights by causing climate change that threatens their traditional way of life melting sea ice upon which their villages are built and threatening species upon which they depend for survival.

Are there proverbial ice floes upon which the truly ostracized are plopped, their phone calls never to be returned again?

It was surrounded by a 10 feet-wide platform, or promenade, which was elevated approximately 1 foot above the ice surface and upon which spectators could stand or skaters could rest.

The mid-1930s brought such classics as Wilhelm Wagenfeld's Kubus stacking storage containers, made of textured glass; Sherman Kelly's cast aluminum ice-cream scoop, upon which Brancusi could not have improved; and a handy-looking one-shot cake cutter by an unknown designer that could be a Duchamp readymade.

The crystal-clear ice isn't home-frozen, but comes from boutique ice company Favorite Ice, which produces custom ice cubes for highly specific cocktails.

The sixth instalment in the A Song of Ice and Fire series, upon which the hit HBO series Game of Thrones is based, is set to feature "more weddings", "more betrayals" and, of course, "more deaths".

But George R.R. Martin, the author of the "A Song Of Ice and Fire" series upon which the smash-hit cable series is based, has spoken out on his Live Journal blog, writing that the throne in the HBO series is smaller and less intimidating than what he envisioned.

Elsewhere, author George RR Martin is busy working on the sixth novel on his A Song of Ice and Fire novel series, upon which Thrones is based.

The ship's most significant external feature was the roundness of the hull, designed so that there was nothing upon which the ice could get a grip.