How to Use iceberg in a Sentence

iceberg

noun
  • In the depths of night, the boat strikes an iceberg and sinks.
    Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2020
  • And all this is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg.
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 3 July 2019
  • The trench coat is just the tip of the design iceberg for Panichgul.
    Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Those deals are just the tip of the proverbial iceberg, though.
    Imani Moise, WSJ, 24 Nov. 2022
  • The bathing bear is the tip of an iceberg of gimmicks at Mabu.
    Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 14 July 2023
  • And if the tip is well done, the iceberg becomes clear.
    Karl Vick, Time, 3 Dec. 2019
  • There are no icebergs in the ship’s path, and the voyage was slow and steady.
    Rick Helfenbein, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
  • There are no icebergs in the ship’s path, and the voyage was slow and steady.
    Rick Helfenbein, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Either way, that bag full of cash is just the tip of the iceberg.
    Matt Peterson, The Atlantic, 7 June 2017
  • From the hills above, the icebergs had all seemed still and sculptural.
    Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 12 June 2024
  • And the deaths are just the tip of a sorrowful iceberg.
    Brian Resnick, Vox, 11 July 2019
  • 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
  • But if Xbox head (Xboss?) Phil Spencer has his way, that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
    Brad Chacos, PCWorld, 13 June 2017
  • But as Wahlquist reports, new species are just the tip of the fishy iceberg.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 20 June 2017
  • Congress, this is the tip of a very, very large iceberg.
    WSJ, 14 Mar. 2021
  • This is just the tip of the ancient practice’s iceberg.
    Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2023
  • And keep in mind that these are only the tip of the Twitter brain iceberg.
    Steve King, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The bread is spread with mayo; shredded iceberg is tucked in at the last minute.
    BostonGlobe.com, 23 Feb. 2021
  • The iceberg formed when the crack widened on Feb. 26, releasing it from the ice shelf.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 28 Feb. 2021
  • What is the process where pieces of ice break away from a glacier and create an iceberg?
    CNN, 26 Jan. 2023
  • But parking gaffes are the tip of this iceberg, not to mix our ship metaphors.
    Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • This week a giant city-sized iceberg split off an ice shelf in what part of the world?
    CNN, 26 Jan. 2023
  • This pre-preparation showed at hiko-A-mon, the iceberg browned at the edges and limp.
    Lindsey McClave, The Courier-Journal, 11 Oct. 2017
  • A day away from reaching New York City, the ship hit an iceberg.
    Cathy Kozlowicz, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2019
  • More movies are sunk by the hidden part of the iceberg than ever evoke it.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 June 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • But the ship struck the iceberg from the side, causing a series of punctures along the hull across 18 feet, affecting six of the compartments.
    ArsTechnica, 10 Apr. 2025
  • According to estimates, the iceberg will now melt as a faster rate after losing much of its initial mass.
    Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 May 2025

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