How to Use iceberg in a Sentence
iceberg
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In the depths of night, the boat strikes an iceberg and sinks.
—Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2020
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And all this is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg.
—Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 3 July 2019
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The trench coat is just the tip of the design iceberg for Panichgul.
—Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2021
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Those deals are just the tip of the proverbial iceberg, though.
—Imani Moise, WSJ, 24 Nov. 2022
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The bathing bear is the tip of an iceberg of gimmicks at Mabu.
—Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 14 July 2023
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And if the tip is well done, the iceberg becomes clear.
—Karl Vick, Time, 3 Dec. 2019
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There are no icebergs in the ship’s path, and the voyage was slow and steady.
—Rick Helfenbein, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
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There are no icebergs in the ship’s path, and the voyage was slow and steady.
—Rick Helfenbein, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
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From the hills above, the icebergs had all seemed still and sculptural.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 12 June 2024
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And the deaths are just the tip of a sorrowful iceberg.
—Brian Resnick, Vox, 11 July 2019
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There’s no way to know what an iceberg of this size will do to the ice shelf.
—Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 26 Feb. 2019
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Congress, this is the tip of a very, very large iceberg.
—WSJ, 14 Mar. 2021
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This is just the tip of the ancient practice’s iceberg.
—Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2023
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And keep in mind that these are only the tip of the Twitter brain iceberg.
—Steve King, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
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The bread is spread with mayo; shredded iceberg is tucked in at the last minute.
—BostonGlobe.com, 23 Feb. 2021
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The iceberg formed when the crack widened on Feb. 26, releasing it from the ice shelf.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 28 Feb. 2021
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What is the process where pieces of ice break away from a glacier and create an iceberg?
—CNN, 26 Jan. 2023
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But parking gaffes are the tip of this iceberg, not to mix our ship metaphors.
—Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2021
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But this taste can lead him, so to speak, to miss the ice cubes in the tumbler while seeking the iceberg in the ocean.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
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This week a giant city-sized iceberg split off an ice shelf in what part of the world?
—CNN, 26 Jan. 2023
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A day away from reaching New York City, the ship hit an iceberg.
—Cathy Kozlowicz, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2019
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More movies are sunk by the hidden part of the iceberg than ever evoke it.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 June 2024
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The first tragedy came in 1907 when the steamer collided with an iceberg in the Bering Sea.
—David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Dec. 2022
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That's just the tip of the Big East iceberg, though, as the league is arguably the toughest in the nation and the numbers show it.
—Shelby Dermer, The Enquirer, 9 Jan. 2024
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And that’s not all — working with Yeoh is only the tip of the celebrity iceberg.
—Vulture, 12 Oct. 2022
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The past decade of food writing has proven that cookbooks are just the tip of the culinary iceberg.
—Andrea Michelson, Smithsonian, 26 Nov. 2019
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An iceberg floats in a fjord near the town of Tasiilaq, Greenland, in June 2018.
—Helen Regan, CNN, 20 May 2020
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The fracas surrounding Moore was just the tip of the scandalous iceberg for the GOP.
—Kim Chandler, The Seattle Times, 10 Feb. 2018
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The world’s largest iceberg has run aground off the coast of a remote island in the Atlantic Ocean, according to British researchers.
—Abigail Adams, People.com, 6 Mar. 2025
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The breaking off of this huge iceberg is an example of the ongoing shrinkage happening at the earth's poles over the past few decades as part of climate change.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA Today, 13 Apr. 2025
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