Sentence examples for patchy ice from inspiring English sources
The greater challenge on the roads may come today, when slush will have turned to patchy ice.
Watery sunlight melted the patchy ice that had collected on the inside of the train window overnight, creating rivulets of condensation.
Humberto Campins, a University of Central Florida astrophysicist and leader of one of the discovery teams, suggested that the patchy ice was a thin coating of frost from a reservoir hidden below the asteroids' topsoil regolith.
During winter though, when the lake freezes over, patchy ice and unstable surfaces usually make the caves too dangerous to get to.
But streets that looked clean and dry were patchy with black ice, tricky to navigate even in my trusty Uggs.
Stretching the Golf R on ice, graded asphalt or patchy combinations thereof reveals a supremely nimble, versatile machine.
The killer whale has a patchy distribution in all oceans, from the polar ice caps to the Equator, where large prey such as tuna, salmon, and seals are abundant.
Quantification of sediment uptake and transport by sea ice is challenging due to the poorly understood entrainment processes and patchy distribution of matter12.
The natural range for this species is patchy, as a result of several migratory pathways following the end of the last ice age (Liepelt et al. 2009).
She spent part of this melt season observing the sea ice by ship, and found the ice cover to be unusually thin and patchy.
