: a sweet flavored frozen food containing cream or butterfat and usually eggs
Examples of ice-cream in a Sentence
Noun
What flavor of ice cream do you like?
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Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 11 Apr. 2024
In the restaurant’s gilded ice-cream parlor, diners availed themselves of eleven flavors, along with Irish coffee and lemon ice doused in vodka.
—Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
Kulfi, which refers to an ice-cream adjacent dessert associated with celebration, aims to create a space for those not as represented in the beauty sphere with playful hues and quality products.
—Alexandra Domrongchai, Travel + Leisure, 28 Mar. 2024
Friendly’s Restaurants was always considered a casual dining eatery, mostly in the Northeast, known for its signature ice-cream, sandwiches and burgers, a place to dine with family and friends.
—Gary Stern, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
The last weekend of the summer was Gretta Benson-Klein’s ice-cream social, an event to which the entire church was invited.
—Aryn Kyle, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
Betty Rae’s is adding a fourth location to its growing ice-cream empire.
—David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 7 Mar. 2024
But bringing his biographical show to Off Broadway is an achievement that Summers has found to be as satisfying as riding down a spiraling slide into a giant ice-cream sundae.
—Dave Itzkoff, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2024
Now it’s being beaten out by combos like cookies and cream and chocolate-chip cookie dough (which may be similar, but which ice-cream fans definitively see as different).
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 15 Feb. 2024
Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
The slender, rosy stalks can be roasted and piled on top of ice cream or yogurt, or cut into matchsticks to add tartness to a crunchy salad.
—Joe Sevier, Bon Appétit, 15 Apr. 2024
Free People High Roller Jumpsuit $98 Lazy summer days lounging in a hammock or strolling down downtown streets with an ice cream in hand call for this high roller jumpsuit by Free People.
—Karthika Gupta, Travel + Leisure, 14 Apr. 2024
At one point, Fletcher allows a weird dribble of ice cream to drool out of his mouth, and down a cardboard cone—why?
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2024
And with the sweltering 90-degree weather, nothing beats the refreshing relief of ice cream and snow cones.
—Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2024
Sharing pictures in October 2023, Graham was pictured enjoying a chocolate ice cream in a Yumi Kim blue floral playsuit, while de Neufville planted a kiss on The Hangover star's cheek in the second photo.
—Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 8 Apr. 2024
Chocolate Caramel Sauce Mounds of ice cream are eclipsed by this decadent chocolate caramel sauce.
—Anna Luisa Rodriguez, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2024
Here's when and where Sonic Drive-In Sonic Drive-In is offering a limited edition drink called the Blackout Slush Float, a black-colored slush drink with a cotton candy and dragonfruit flavor topped with vanilla soft-serve ice cream with blue and purple galaxy sprinkles.
—Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 4 Apr. 2024
Adjective
Caffè Sorrento will take over the former Flour Child cakes and ice-cream sandwiches spot in a strip mall that includes Hooligan’s Pub and Flying Pie Pizzaria.
—Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 11 Apr. 2024
In the restaurant’s gilded ice-cream parlor, diners availed themselves of eleven flavors, along with Irish coffee and lemon ice doused in vodka.
—Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
Kulfi, which refers to an ice-cream adjacent dessert associated with celebration, aims to create a space for those not as represented in the beauty sphere with playful hues and quality products.
—Alexandra Domrongchai, Travel + Leisure, 28 Mar. 2024
Friendly’s Restaurants was always considered a casual dining eatery, mostly in the Northeast, known for its signature ice-cream, sandwiches and burgers, a place to dine with family and friends.
—Gary Stern, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
The last weekend of the summer was Gretta Benson-Klein’s ice-cream social, an event to which the entire church was invited.
—Aryn Kyle, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
Betty Rae’s is adding a fourth location to its growing ice-cream empire.
—David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 7 Mar. 2024
But bringing his biographical show to Off Broadway is an achievement that Summers has found to be as satisfying as riding down a spiraling slide into a giant ice-cream sundae.
—Dave Itzkoff, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2024
Now it’s being beaten out by combos like cookies and cream and chocolate-chip cookie dough (which may be similar, but which ice-cream fans definitively see as different).
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 15 Feb. 2024
Noun
Fontana bellows in his New York accent, while filling a cup with the store’s vegan soft serve ice cream for another customer.
—Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
The slender, rosy stalks can be roasted and piled on top of ice cream or yogurt, or cut into matchsticks to add tartness to a crunchy salad.
—Joe Sevier, Bon Appétit, 15 Apr. 2024
Free People High Roller Jumpsuit $98 Lazy summer days lounging in a hammock or strolling down downtown streets with an ice cream in hand call for this high roller jumpsuit by Free People.
—Karthika Gupta, Travel + Leisure, 14 Apr. 2024
At one point, Fletcher allows a weird dribble of ice cream to drool out of his mouth, and down a cardboard cone—why?
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2024
And with the sweltering 90-degree weather, nothing beats the refreshing relief of ice cream and snow cones.
—Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2024
Sharing pictures in October 2023, Graham was pictured enjoying a chocolate ice cream in a Yumi Kim blue floral playsuit, while de Neufville planted a kiss on The Hangover star's cheek in the second photo.
—Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 8 Apr. 2024
Chocolate Caramel Sauce Mounds of ice cream are eclipsed by this decadent chocolate caramel sauce.
—Anna Luisa Rodriguez, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2024
Here's when and where Sonic Drive-In Sonic Drive-In is offering a limited edition drink called the Blackout Slush Float, a black-colored slush drink with a cotton candy and dragonfruit flavor topped with vanilla soft-serve ice cream with blue and purple galaxy sprinkles.
—Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 4 Apr. 2024
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ice cream
noun
(ˈ)ī-ˈskrēm 
ˈī-ˌskrēm
: a frozen food containing sweetened and flavored cream or butterfat
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