How to Use dry ice in a Sentence
dry ice
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Its pasties are shipped frozen with dry ice to most of the U.S.
—Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 15 Dec. 2024
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When the server brings it out, a fog of dry ice wafts from the edges of the dish.
—Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 28 Nov. 2022
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The chunk of dirt is then preserved on dry ice and sent back to the lab.
—Quanta Magazine, 16 June 2015
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That’s when the school turned to dry ice to deal with its groundhogs.
—Hasan Dudar, Detroit Free Press, 31 Aug. 2017
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Rather, the temperature of the dry ice seemed to be the key.
—Sam Kean, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2017
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Buy gel packs and block ice and, as the storm draws closer, dry ice.
—Ann Maloney, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2022
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The gas puts the pop in soft drinks and the fizz in beer, and is turned into dry ice to keep food frozen.
—Jesse Newman, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
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The four frozen caps were to be stored in a cooler filled with fifty pounds of dry ice.
—Ann Patchett, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
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But add a little dry ice and a creepy punch bowl and you're all set!
—Christopher Michel, Country Living, 3 Aug. 2022
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The video showed a disco ball, the Scales of Justice, test tubes, beakers, dry ice and a boomerang.
—Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 22 Sep. 2021
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The burgers come freshly butchered and packed in dry ice.
—Lauren Finney Harden, Southern Living, 15 Apr. 2024
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Its pasties are shipped nationwide to most of the U.S., frozen with dry ice.
—Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 6 Dec. 2022
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It will be served in a porcelain tea pot with smoke from dry ice.
—Dallas News, 27 July 2022
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The Post and Courier reports the brands could have been made with a propane torch or dry ice.
—USA TODAY, 18 June 2019
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Having a few more crates of Alaskan seafood overnighted, just for the dry ice.
—Scott Jacobson, The New Yorker, 3 July 2021
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Cookies, cakes and rolls sat on the counter while a shepherd’s pie sat in dry ice.
—Cristóbal Reyes, orlandosentinel.com, 14 Nov. 2019
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Not gold leaf, not dry ice, not 50 shades of slider buns, not 50 Cent.
—Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Aug. 2022
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The ice cream is packed with dry ice to keep cold during shipping.
—Endia Fontanez, The Arizona Republic, 1 Sep. 2023
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The lake could turn out to be frozen carbon dioxide, or dry ice.
—Nishant Mohan, WSJ, 25 July 2018
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Add a chunk of dry ice to the drink for a smoky, boiling cauldron effect.
—Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 21 Oct. 2024
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Add a chunk of dry ice to the drink for a smoky, boiling cauldron effect.
—Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 12 Oct. 2020
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Walk around that area, take it all in, and maybe order a whole pie and ship it back here in dry ice.
—Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Feb. 2022
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The second type of snow found on the Red Planet’s surface is dry ice.
—Maren Estrada, BGR, 28 Dec. 2022
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Fifty pounds of dry ice, the FDA says, should hold an 18-cubic-foot freezer for 2 days.
—Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 22 July 2019
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Late last year, this system led to a surge in demand for dry ice in parts of the United States.
—Joe Walsh, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
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Arnold rolled up to the field entrance with coolers loaded with dry ice.
—Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 11 Jan. 2026
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There, they’ll be photographed and then stunned and killed by exposure to dry ice, before being dissected.
—Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Nov. 2025
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Add a chunk of dry ice to the drink for a smoky, boiling cauldron effect.
—Kirby Adams, Louisville Courier Journal, 20 Oct. 2025
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Instead, a new study suggests that the gullies are sculpted by slabs of dry ice that form during the Martian winter.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 16 Oct. 2025
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They were packed into zippered cooler bags filled with dry ice and were frozen through as promised.
—Alaina Chou, Bon Appetit Magazine, 30 Sep. 2025
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