Sentence examples for stretch of ice from inspiring English sources

As soon as a stretch of ice is declared fit, word spreads locally like wildfire.

Hundreds of pure white snow geese huddled on a stretch of ice.

Since then, Mr. Corporan, 38, who emigrated from the Dominican Republic at age 15, has been entrusted with perhaps the city's most cherished stretch of ice: the center's skating rink.

Ice in lakes and rivers, a sheet or stretch of ice forming on the surface of lakes and rivers when the temperature drops below freezing (0° C [32° F]).

Now it is a stretch of ice cream shops, cafes and expensive boutiques; then it was a roiling sea of floating cars and boats, dead animals and people swimming for their lives.

This will enable the dog mushers to receive food and have a rescue plane standing by as they continue east across a remote stretch of ice between the South Pole and Vostok that has never been crossed overland.

On 9 September a wide stretch of ice-free water opened up, and next day Fram rounded Cape Chelyuskin the second ship to do so, after Nordenskiöld's Vega in 1878 and entered the Laptev Sea.

She is not a power skater who covers huge stretches of ice with a single thrust.

But the constantly moving ice is broken by stretches of ice only a couple of feet thick and occasionally by a patch of open water.

There are dogleg turns, jumps that come out of nowhere, and stretches of ice, as groomers make the run fast for the Olympians.

The league's new OT format wasn't perfect, with plenty of games where it never clicked and fans were treated to pucks sliding helplessly down empty stretches of ice.