Sentence examples for plate of ice from inspiring English sources

I could hear, beneath the plate of ice, the trickling of meltwater flowing to the sea.

Beyond that, really, it's standard coffee-shop grub: Greek salad, chicken Monte Cristo, "plate of ice cream," dollops of coleslaw, and packets of Saltines.

But four days before she died she joked with waiters in her favourite restaurant as she polished off a plate of ice cream with relish.

He had a large muffin on his cluttered desk and a plate of ice cream -- "I only eat at my desk" -- as he gazed at three television screens providing news and stock prices.

Sweet, briny Blue Point oysters on the half shell sit atop a beautiful plate of ice with little pots of fresh horseradish, cocktail sauce and mignonette next to slices of lemon.

Below-zero temperatures crowned the top of the US from Idaho to Minnesota, where many roads still had an inch-thick plate of ice, polished smooth by traffic and impervious to ice-melting chemicals.

Ice shelves are floating plates of ice up to 800 metres thick that are still attached to the bedrock of continents and which form when large glaciers flow toward the ocean in polar areas.

I have observed them in that season when plates of ice still line the banks of tidal streams, "like pieces of slender glass rods shorter than a man's finger," as Rachel Carson described them.

Rough weather and warmer water at that position apparently conspired to shatter the broad plates of ice on which the camp and runway had been established, Mr. Buigues said, adding, "The runways are broken and they have lost part of their equipment, but the lives of the people are not threatened".

With the plate on ice, 0.5 ml of 0.6 N perchloric acid was added and the plate was quickly scraped and collected into a microcentrifuge tube.

The Raji cell lysate (250 cell equivalent per μl) was serially 2-fold diluted in the Lysate Dilution Buffer in a 96-well plate on ice. 2 μl of 0.5 nM 3′ and 5′ ICassayssay probe mixture was added to 2 μl lysate in quadruplicate, sealed with MicroAmpTM Clear Adhesive Film, and incubated for 60 min at 37 °C.