dry ice

noun

: solidified carbon dioxide

Examples of dry ice in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The carts have dry ice in the doors and often on top of the food items. — Joey Skladany, Travel + Leisure, 12 Sep. 2026

Cargo shipments may include anything from general merchandise, like a company’s flower bouquet orders, to dry ice, perishable medicines, parcels, fish, fruit and other goods. — Amanda Musa, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026

The person who first developed cloud seeding, using dry ice—and who wasn’t named in Williams’s piece—was Vincent Schaefer, Bernard Vonnegut’s colleague. — Rana Mitter, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026

Ice cream was purchased in Nairobi, packed in dry ice, flown by charter aircraft to Tanzania, turned into milkshakes in a camp kitchen, repacked, and sent toward the couple by car. — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1925, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for dry ice

• advice
• allspice
• concise
• device
• entice
• excise
• fordyce
• precise
• suffice
• dice
• feis
• gneiss

Kids Definition

dry ice

noun

: solid carbon dioxide