How to Use icebound in a Sentence

icebound

adjective

• An early freeze had trapped them in an icebound lagoon four miles short of open water.
  — Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
• 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 new modeling suggests that the ancient coastline was not uniformly icebound.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2021
• But there are also fast cars evading a Cold War-era Russian submarine on an icebound lake.
  — Washington Post, 24 June 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
• Wind turbines supply a fraction of the grid’s winter power supply, much less than the similarly icebound natural-gas processors.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2022
• The inhospitable, barely accessible and icebound expanse that the Arctic once was is transforming.
  — Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2021
• The search expedition has been fortunate with conditions in the Weddell Sea, which can be notoriously icebound.
  — Tom Metcalfe, Scientific American, 9 Mar. 2022
• Then, after a brief conversation between the creature and his maker, Berry transforms into Frankenstein, then back into the creature, before the piece rushes to its absurd, icebound conclusion.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2020
• Since many planets are icebound or experience extreme temperatures, digging down into frozen areas might enable scientists to eventually find extraterrestrial life.
  — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 July 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
• The wild western hemisphere Advertisement Greenland, a sparsely populated, mineral-rich, icebound island, is an autonomous Danish territory located between the Arctic and North Atlantic Oceans.
  — Comfort Ero, Time, 9 Jan. 2026