: a sweet flavored frozen food containing cream or butterfat and usually eggs
Examples of ice-cream in a Sentence
Noun
What flavor of ice cream do you like?
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David Coggins, Robb Report, 27 Apr. 2024
Caffè Sorrento will take over the former Flour Child cakes and ice-cream sandwiches spot in a strip mall that includes Hooligan’s Pub and Flying Pie Pizzaria.
—Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 11 Apr. 2024
In the restaurant’s gilded ice-cream parlor, diners availed themselves of eleven flavors, along with Irish coffee and lemon ice doused in vodka.
—Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
Kulfi, which refers to an ice-cream adjacent dessert associated with celebration, aims to create a space for those not as represented in the beauty sphere with playful hues and quality products.
—Alexandra Domrongchai, Travel + Leisure, 28 Mar. 2024
Friendly’s Restaurants was always considered a casual dining eatery, mostly in the Northeast, known for its signature ice-cream, sandwiches and burgers, a place to dine with family and friends.
—Gary Stern, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
The last weekend of the summer was Gretta Benson-Klein’s ice-cream social, an event to which the entire church was invited.
—Aryn Kyle, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
Betty Rae’s is adding a fourth location to its growing ice-cream empire.
—David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 7 Mar. 2024
But bringing his biographical show to Off Broadway is an achievement that Summers has found to be as satisfying as riding down a spiraling slide into a giant ice-cream sundae.
—Dave Itzkoff, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2024
Mallory Moench, TIME, 27 Apr. 2024
Layer confetti cake with mango and raspberry sorbets to create these fun ice cream cake pops.
—Nik Pugmire, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Apr. 2024
The first Bay Area location of Handel’s Homemade Ice Cream, a nearly 80-year-old national ice cream brand, has just opened in Walnut Creek.
—Kate Bradshaw, The Mercury News, 26 Apr. 2024
Kate Moss exited wearing a felony of a mini skirt, covering her chest with only her forearms while lapping up a Magnum ice cream.
—Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 25 Apr. 2024
For Unilever, there are still parts of its business, like its ice cream segment, with an uncertain future.
—Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 25 Apr. 2024
Now everyone knows that Tony Soprano was last seen in a booth at Holsten’s ice cream parlor on June 10, 2007.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2024
Serve any extra blackberry compote over ice cream, cake, or yogurt.
—Zoe Denenberg, Southern Living, 16 Apr. 2024
Fontana bellows in his New York accent, while filling a cup with the store’s vegan soft serve ice cream for another customer.
—Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
Adjective
The film depicts one madcap night in 1980s New York for Griffin Dunne’s Paul Hackett, capturing the era’s art world, lofts, clubs, and dive bars (remember those?), not to mention angry mobs and a bloodthirsty ice-cream truck.
—David Coggins, Robb Report, 27 Apr. 2024
Caffè Sorrento will take over the former Flour Child cakes and ice-cream sandwiches spot in a strip mall that includes Hooligan’s Pub and Flying Pie Pizzaria.
—Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 11 Apr. 2024
In the restaurant’s gilded ice-cream parlor, diners availed themselves of eleven flavors, along with Irish coffee and lemon ice doused in vodka.
—Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
Kulfi, which refers to an ice-cream adjacent dessert associated with celebration, aims to create a space for those not as represented in the beauty sphere with playful hues and quality products.
—Alexandra Domrongchai, Travel + Leisure, 28 Mar. 2024
Friendly’s Restaurants was always considered a casual dining eatery, mostly in the Northeast, known for its signature ice-cream, sandwiches and burgers, a place to dine with family and friends.
—Gary Stern, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
The last weekend of the summer was Gretta Benson-Klein’s ice-cream social, an event to which the entire church was invited.
—Aryn Kyle, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
Betty Rae’s is adding a fourth location to its growing ice-cream empire.
—David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 7 Mar. 2024
But bringing his biographical show to Off Broadway is an achievement that Summers has found to be as satisfying as riding down a spiraling slide into a giant ice-cream sundae.
—Dave Itzkoff, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2024
Noun
The couple went to high school together and have jointly run a farm and ranch, opened an ice cream shop, and helped manage a family restaurant, according to their biographies.
—Mallory Moench, TIME, 27 Apr. 2024
Layer confetti cake with mango and raspberry sorbets to create these fun ice cream cake pops.
—Nik Pugmire, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Apr. 2024
The first Bay Area location of Handel’s Homemade Ice Cream, a nearly 80-year-old national ice cream brand, has just opened in Walnut Creek.
—Kate Bradshaw, The Mercury News, 26 Apr. 2024
Kate Moss exited wearing a felony of a mini skirt, covering her chest with only her forearms while lapping up a Magnum ice cream.
—Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 25 Apr. 2024
For Unilever, there are still parts of its business, like its ice cream segment, with an uncertain future.
—Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 25 Apr. 2024
Now everyone knows that Tony Soprano was last seen in a booth at Holsten’s ice cream parlor on June 10, 2007.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2024
Serve any extra blackberry compote over ice cream, cake, or yogurt.
—Zoe Denenberg, Southern Living, 16 Apr. 2024
Fontana bellows in his New York accent, while filling a cup with the store’s vegan soft serve ice cream for another customer.
—Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
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ice cream
noun
(ˈ)ī-ˈskrēm 
ˈī-ˌskrēm
: a frozen food containing sweetened and flavored cream or butterfat
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