Sentence examples for narrow ice from inspiring English sources

It's fun and exhilarating, like a rollercoaster ride, the narrow ice walls intensifying the impression of speed.

This bending stress is enhanced in the case of glacier tongues (long narrow floating ice shelves produced by fast-flowing glaciers that protrude far into the ocean).

The man, a resident of San Diego, was hiking on the north-facing side of Mt. Harwood near the Devil's Backbone trail when he fell about 1,500 feet down a "very narrow, steep ice chute," said sheriff's Cpl.

There was a narrow hem of ice along the shaded shoreline.

On very high-altitude, low-latitude snow and firn fields these may grow into spectacular narrow blades of ice, up to several metres high, called nieves penitentes.

The first frozen waterfall produces a narrow column of ice about 25 feet tall.

Ice streams, narrow zones of fast flow in ice sheets that are otherwise dominated by slow sheet flow, are also common features of Quaternary ice sheets.

Where the ice narrowed, some hundred feet down, the mother died on impact, but the boy was alive, clinging to her arm to keep from slipping deeper.

Uecker and Kennedy started down a passageway narrowed by an ice machine against the right wall and a steam table to the left.

For the first time, Olympic games were played on a narrower NHL-sized ice rink, measuring 61 metres × 26 metres (200 ft × 85 ft), instead of the international size of 61 m × 30.5 m (200 ft × 100 ft).

The cold from the ice narrows the blood vessels, helping to reduce blood flow to the injury and prevent excess swelling.