: 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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Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 16 June 2025
Shortly after, my father came out to see what was going on, reached into his pocket and gave us each a quarter to walk to the nearby ice-cream shop and enjoy a cool treat on such a hot day.
—Susan Cunningham Euker, Baltimore Sun, 14 June 2025
Felipe Schrieberg, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
Kids grow up eating it fresh or in desserts, and it’s often blended into ice cream.
—Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 19 June 2025
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Adjective
That was a joke of some players making an ice-cream run on the eve of that game.
—Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 16 June 2025
Shortly after, my father came out to see what was going on, reached into his pocket and gave us each a quarter to walk to the nearby ice-cream shop and enjoy a cool treat on such a hot day.
—Susan Cunningham Euker, Baltimore Sun, 14 June 2025
Noun
Palate: Vanilla ice cream in whisky form with extra citrus, with some raisins thrown in.
—Felipe Schrieberg, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
Kids grow up eating it fresh or in desserts, and it’s often blended into ice cream.
—Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 19 June 2025
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“Ice-cream.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice-cream. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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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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