How to Use icebound in a Sentence

icebound

adjective

• Angnatok helps non-locals glean at least a little of what the icebound world means to Inuit.
  — Matthew Halliday/undark, Popular Science, 29 May 2020
• Especially during the long winter months when ships were icebound and there was little to do but wait for spring and hope for a thaw.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Sep. 2020
• But there are also fast cars evading a Cold War-era Russian submarine on an icebound lake.
  — Washington Post, 24 June 2021
• Not long after the Arctic sun set for the final time last year, a ferocious storm descended on the isolated, icebound crew of the research vessel Polarstern.
  — Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Jan. 2020
• But new modeling suggests that the ancient coastline was not uniformly icebound.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2021
• Sometimes an icebound ship thawed out unharmed, leaving its crew merely thinner, colder, and crazier come springtime.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2017
• In these photographs, and frequently in Arbugaeva’s work, the scenes have a subdued underwater look, as if recovered from the deep past or icebound legend.
  — Brian Dillo, The New Yorker, 22 June 2021
• Endurance became completely icebound on January 24, and by mid-February, Shackleton ordered the boilers to be shut off so that the ship would drift with the ice until the weather warmed sufficiently for the pack to break up.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 9 Mar. 2022
• An early freeze had trapped them in an icebound lagoon four miles short of open water.
  — Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
• Despite being icebound for nine months each year, Pituffik's airfield operates year-round.
  — Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
• Marchand fired an icebound dart through a Stamkos screen that beat Vasilevskiy to the far corner of the net.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Jan. 2023