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
To get to the glacier from the road, his students walk across mounds of white tarps, stretched around an ice cave carved for tourists.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 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
Here, for example, I am writing these notes in the salle-à-manger of the inn, where other voyagers are eating and drinking, and there H. is feeding on the green moonshine of an emerald ice cave.
From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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