Examples of ice cap in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web That ice sheet is the second largest in the world, behind Antarctica, and accounts for the vast majority of the polar ice cap. — Cassidy Randall, Outside Online, 11 Jan. 2020 Isabelle Huppert is a melting ice cap; Penélope Cruz a meadow at dawn. — New York Times, 8 Feb. 2022 The photos included a few cosmic selfies of the spacecraft above the planet's signature scarlet surface and a view of its northern ice cap, reports Andrew Jones for Space.com. — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2022 The camp's six solar-heated canvas tents have views of its eponymous mountain: one of a cluster of rock pillars rising up to 3,000 feet above the ice cap that were first explored by Norway's Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen in the early 20th century. — Scott Bay, Travel + Leisure, 29 Dec. 2021 The Arctic ice cap is thinning, prompting a rise in sea level and the erosion of coastal areas; permafrost is thawing, releasing toxic gases like methane and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and endangering existing infrastructure. — Daria Solovieva, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2021 That rump of legacy estates is like the polar ice cap – shrinking over time. — Peter Bendor-samuel, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021 The UNESCO Biosphere Reserve is home to its namesake granite towers as well as sparkling lagoons and otherworldly glaciers — the park's Perito Moreno Glacier is part of the third-largest ice cap in the world. — Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure, 8 Dec. 2021 This was my sixth trip to Iceland but my first time tunneling through an ice cap. — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Nov. 2021 See More

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