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How To Use floe In A Sentence

• Grob was giddy as hell up there, because the gnarly floes offered a rare challenge to a jaded ice-breaker.
• While a few savvy anglers carry flares, stoves, and tents, the majority are ill-prepared for hours or days stuck on a drifting ice floe.
• Ice-floes are a threat to shipping in the area.
• They are stuck instead for a sunless winter on an ice floe.
• The sea was little encumbered with ice, it being now late in June, so that our progress was not at all impeded by the few soft, brashy floes that we encountered, none of them hard enough to do a ship's hull any damage. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales
• 'Twould be easy enough for the steam-swiler _Royal Bloodhound_ t 'jerk that yelpin' tramp, had she lost her propeller -- as well she might, poor helpless lady o 'fashion! in that slob-ice -- 'twould be easy enough t' rip her through a league o 'the floe t' open water, with a charge or two o 'good black powder t' help. Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D.
• Near the edge of the floe was a crack in the ice of considerable length, but only eighteen inches or two feet wide, and three or four feet deep. A Hundred Anecdotes of Animals
• Winter ice pack consists of a diverse mix of ice of different thicknesses and floe sizes, and of open water in leads.
• These rotations further suggest that forces acting on the nearshore edges of large floes behave differently from those acting on offshore edges.
• Locally, these floes are also known as the Permanent Polar Pack Ice.