ice block
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“We went to the fish room with a bucket or a sack and you put an ice block in… you put it on the stove… and the guys would make coffee with it.”
From BBC • Aug. 18, 2024
Serve the punch in half batches, refilling the bowl and even adding a fresh ice block as needed throughout the evening.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 11, 2022
With that, the choreography begins: a hand-chiseled, coffin-shaped ice block goes into a crystal glass so thin that it yields to pressure.
From Washington Post • Feb. 14, 2019
It’s a breathing tube that snakes through a backpack, so that inhalations are far from the ice block formed by the melting power of exhalations.
From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2017
I dressed in every stitch of clothing I could find, all the time knowing I’d be an ice block the minute I stepped out that door.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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