Sentence examples for were icy from inspiring English sources

"The streets were icy".

I had boots with heels, and the sidewalks were icy.

They were icy and so ordinary, so ordinary; he loved them.

Then the snow melted and froze into black ice, and the roads were icy and treacherous.

The circuit contained two steep and sharp downhill turns, which were icy in the morning.

It was at about this time of year, and the roads were icy.

Constant winds made the snow a little hard to judge, but in places that were icy, the runs had been carefully groomed.

Chicago officials used the city's emergency phone system to deliver recorded warnings to about 2,700 elderly residents that sidewalks were icy and slippery.

We were back from a long day's filming – charred tree-stumps, illegal loggers and numbing heat – and though the beers were icy and the glasses frosted, I was obsessed with the idea that I might never cool down.

His relations with the Afghan president Hamid Karzai were icy, but Holbrooke was no less impatient with US officials he felt did not appreciate the urgency of the moment.

Routes that were icy or glaciated in the middle part of the past century, when the world's highest peaks were being conquered for the first time, are turning into unstable and unappetizing rock.