Examples of floe in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Lasse Rabenstein, the expedition’s chief scientist, and other sea-ice experts on board would have to choose a floe that can safely support the crew and equipment. — New York Times, 4 Feb. 2022 On November 14, a storm arrived, and the men scrambled to find a secure floe. — Adventure, 23 Dec. 2020 As part of the expedition, the Polarstern anchored to a large floe last fall and set up a camp on the ice, creating a small scientific village protected from wandering polar bears by alarms and scouts. — Frank Jordans, Star Tribune, 12 Oct. 2020 And today it is filled with young floes of churning nitrogen ice. — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 26 Mar. 2020 In mid-November, a violent storm opened up a new crack between the Polarstern and its floe, knocking over a 100-foot meteorological tower and threatening to snap power cables. — Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Mar. 2020 Or maybe a little detached, like the floe that carried all those winter anglers across the lake 30 years ago. — Will Ryan, Field & Stream, 20 Feb. 2020 To the untrained eye, the floe appears vast and unchanging. — Quanta Magazine, 16 Jan. 2020 But few landscapes are more dynamic than the Arctic ice cap, a mosaic of small floes only a few kilometers across. — Quanta Magazine, 16 Jan. 2020 See More

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