rotten ice
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of rotten ice
First recorded in 1840–50
Example Sentences
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From roaring avalanches to rock falls and rotten ice, Sher had already imagined a dozen ways to die on Nanga Parbat.
From Newsweek ● Jul. 6, 2013
Slowly he went for fear of rotten ice, yet in haste, because the cold was at his bones and before long he would not be able to move.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
He was walking on rotten ice now, Tyrion knew.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
We were obliged to leave the river on account of rotten ice, and took to the open plains, where our deers sank to their bellies in the loose snow.
From Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland by Taylor, Bayard
Some of them had stood by him in many a hard tussle with the cold and the stinging hail, with the rotten ice threatening to let them down into the river or the sea.
From Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North by Waldo, Fullerton
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