ice cave
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of ice cave
First recorded in 1895–1900
Example Sentences
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Police said in their press release around 18:00 that an ice cave had collapsed.
From BBC • Aug. 25, 2024
As early as 1947, residents around Switzerland’s Aletsch glacier were spreading sawdust across the roof of an ice cave created for tourists to shield it from the sun’s radiation.
From Scientific American • Mar. 6, 2023
One of the tours leads to an ice cave and Bernlow, who’s been here for more than a decade, said they’re watching it disappear year after year.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 11, 2023
The ice cave is shrinking as the glacier melts.
From New York Times • May 19, 2022
There were eighteen of them, not seventeen, for a short while before the one in the ice cave had been captured, and they railed at him with a bitter hopeless anger.
From The Stutterer by Merliss, R. R.
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