How To Use Floe In A Sentence
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Grob was giddy as hell up there, because the gnarly floes offered a rare challenge to a jaded ice-breaker.
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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.
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Ice-floes are a threat to shipping in the area.
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They are stuck instead for a sunless winter on an ice floe.
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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
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'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.
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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
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Winter ice pack consists of a diverse mix of ice of different thicknesses and floe sizes, and of open water in leads.
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These rotations further suggest that forces acting on the nearshore edges of large floes behave differently from those acting on offshore edges.
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Locally, these floes are also known as the Permanent Polar Pack Ice.
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Also, the strong current which sets east out of Lancaster Sound carried with it mile upon mile of what they call pack-ice -- rough ice that has not frozen into fields; and this pack was bombarding the floe at the same time that the swell and heave of the storm-worked sea was weakening and undermining it.
The Second Jungle Book
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Clearly, most information on ivory gulls came from observations made when gulls were either in migration or feeding away from nesting colonies, near pack ice or the floe edge, but we did record information on one colony.
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But I've latterly perked up at a resurgence of his zingier side, alerted by a fellow aficionado to a recent Fashion Diary from Paris, in which he likens Ingrid Sischy, self-described as "triste" and yapping haplessly for Karl Lagerfeld after the Chanel show, to a baby seal stranded on an ice floe. role as a one man Walk of the Town, feeling for the worn seams of the city's public facades that betray its private dilemmas.
Emdashes
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The two month hunt will occur at the birthplace of the seals on ice floes off the Atlantic coast.
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Two penguins are standing on ice floe.
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They hauled the lifeboats across the ice for the next four days and stopped on a floe of ice which they christened Ocean Camp.
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With huge 200,000-strong colonies of little auk thronging the cliffs and shores, kittiwakes next to the cobalt blue glaciers, walrus wallowing in the shallows, Arctic foxes, whales and, of course, one of the ultimate wildlife sightings, the mighty polar bear, frequently seen hunting in its frosty backyard on ice floes.
Paul Steele: Photographic Dreams Of The Wild Do Come True
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Fast ice and vast floes, on average, dominated both study areas over the study period.
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The ship moved through the pack ice, elbowing floes out of the way as if they were unwanted thoughts.
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En route to the South Pole, the ship was grounded in an ice floe.
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If its pressurized floes are thick and unbroken, it can stop an ice-breaker dead or slice the steel hull of a lesser ship like a can opener.
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From February to June, large floes and landfast ice predominated, whereas small floes formed the major cover from August to December.
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In the Arctic, highest productivity occurs near ice edges and areas of open water such as leads and spaces between unstable floes.
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There was no complete break in the recorded tracks of individual floes.
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Great floes jostled against each other piling up to form miniature icebergs.
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-- In a floe may be natural or artificial; the former being simply a small "bight," in which a ship is placed to secure her from the danger of external pressure; and the latter, a square space cut out with saws for a similar purpose.
Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1
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The cylindrically hulled Healy drove up on top of the massive floe until the heft of the boat sent dozens of cracks spidering across the surface.
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Maybe their new reporter/commentator, The Killer from Wasilla, could go camp out on an Arctic ice floe and report back to us on how the floe is doin’ sizewize ..
Think Progress » Fox Thinks Winter Chill Disproves Global Warming; Experts Disagree
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Cryosat-2 will measure the thickness of floating ice "freeboard" - the bit sticking above the surface - which will enable scientists to calculate the total thickness of floes by adding that to the 7/8ths of ice "draft" which is submerged.
The Register
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Measurements by other researchers at Arctic sites further inland show less mercury pollution, indicating that the heavy fallout may be restricted to the near-coastal environment and parcels of open ocean where floes of annual ice melt.
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I was inclosed had come in contact with another, and that I had been broken off from it, and was floating on the sea with other pieces, which, when collected in large quantities, are termed a floe of ice.
The Pacha of Many Tales
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Pack ice formed on the surface and drifted in floes until the water levels dropped and it lodged on higher ground.
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The rudder freed itself, but the propeller was found to be athwartship, having been forced into that position by the floe some time after August 1.
South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917
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Before noon clouds surrounded the whole mountain, not in the vague flocculent, meaningless masses one usually sees, but in Arctic oceans, where lofty icebergs, floes and pack, lay piled on each other, glistening with the frost of a Polar winter; then alps on alps, and peaks of well remembered ranges gleaming above glaciers, and the semblance of forests in deep ravines loaded with new fallen snow.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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The fate of three men afloat on a floe is too horrible to think about.
With Shackleton to the Antarctic
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Floes of any size can be found at all distances from the ice pack edge, including vast ([less than] 2 km) floes near the ice pack edge and much smaller floes in the central ice pack.
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The ice in this neighbourhood was covered with innumerable "hummocks," and the floes were from seven to ten feet in thickness.
Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1
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The ice floes from the Gulf of Saint Lawrence that swept through the Strait of Canso every year were now blocked on their southward journey, and so they stayed to fill Saint George's Bay on the Causeway's north side.
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Against a painted Antarctic backdrop of glaciers, icebergs and floes, groups of stately Emperor penguins pose like actors at curtain call.
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_ -- Beset against a floe, which is in motion, owing to the pressure of bergs upon its southern face; and as it slowly
Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51
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Unfortunately, the ice cracked, leaving Winston alone on his own ice floe, while Wilfred barked on the safe side, trying to encourage him to jump over the rapidly widening crack.
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Our floe is a heavy one and it withstood the blows it received.
South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917
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Many of these ice floes are the result of the berg calving which is taking place in the chest cavity.
Impossible Places
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After one of these gales, walking on the floe was a work of much difficulty, in consequence of the irregular surface it presented to the foot.
Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51
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Ice-floe trajectories from 24 to 26 April illustrate the middle of the period when the alongshore lead was steadily open, movement offices to the SW, and other stable conditions conducive to whaling.
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As if that weren't enough, we're slaloming down a field of ice-floes, dodging bergs as big as apartment blocks.
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Every spring for over 100 years, Newfoundland men had gone sealing, aware of the dangers from ice floes and storms.
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Icicles fringed every overhang, and several outriding, smaller floes cupped a protected lagoon in which two large humpbacks idled and blew.
The Whale Warriors
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I still support marooning Broder on an ice floe and pushing him out to sea.
Matthew Yglesias » Credit Where Due
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We were to travel to the floe edge, where the frozen inlet gave way to the waters of Baffin Bay that separate Canada from Greenland.
In the Arctic, Sleeping Soundly
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Next, send them out on to the ice floes of the frozen Baltic and get them to shout - in choral unison - at a stranded 10,000-ton ice breaking vessel, and you have got something called Mieskuoro Huutaja (Men's Choir Shouters) ... a new art form, and it is taking parts of the world by arctic storm.
Boing Boing: February 1, 2004 - February 7, 2004 Archives
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Alternatively, the lack of multi-year floes in the shorefast ice can be ascribed to the weather systems occurring just before freeze-up.
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Spot leopard seals on ice floes, and vast rookeries of penguins and the odd albatross.
Times, Sunday Times
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For anyone with eyes to see and a television to be parked in front of by benignly neglectful eighties parents Floella is of course best known for her exuberantly dungareed presenting work on Playschool and Playaway.
Film | guardian.co.uk
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In the installation, Acconci literally pushed the envelope into billowing floes that waltzed visitors through space.
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During the course of the voyage he made close to eighty oil sketches and numerous pencil drawings of ice in the form of icebergs, glaciers, packs, and floes under various conditions of light and atmosphere.
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The book features lots of colour photos and mostly Inuit writers' tips on everything from dogsledding and walrus watching to luxury cruises and the dangers of ice floes.
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This choice allowed us to travel comfortably with the wind at our backs while viewing the constant vista of mountains and valleys, the ice-speckled Atlantic Ocean in the distance dotted with floes of drift ice from Quebec and Labrador.
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After a further reconnaissance the ice ahead proved quite unnegotiable, so at 8.30 p.m. last night, to the intense disappointment of all, instead of forging ahead, we had to retire half a mile so as to get on a stronger floe, and by 10 p.m.
South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917
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It is so big it has blocked wind and water currents that break up ice floes in McMurdo Sound during the Antarctic summer.
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These rotations further suggest that forces acting on the nearshore edges of large floes behave differently from those acting on offshore edges.
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And now, as to that blossomy peach-scent -- even while some floes were yet around me -- I was just like some fantastic mariner, who, having set out to search for Eden and the Blessed Islands, finds them, and balmy gales from their gardens come out, while he is yet afar, to meet him with their perfumes of almond and champac, cornel and jasmin and lotus.
The Purple Cloud
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Hockey and football on the floe were our chief recreations, and all hands joined in many a strenuous game.
South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917
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Kalumah when questioned confirmed all that the Lieutenant had said, so that it appeared probable that the island would be drifted to the south like a huge ice-floe, that is to say, to the narrowest part of Behring Strait, which is much frequented in the summer by the fishermen of New Archangel, who are the most experienced mariners of those waters.
The Fur Country
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In this manner we had advanced about four miles to the westward by eight P.M., after eleven hours of very laborious exertion; and having then come to the end of the clear water, and the weather being again foggy, the ships were secured in a deep "bight," or bay in a floe, called by the sailors a
Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1
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said Richard, awkwardly leaping from ice floe to ice floe in the stream of the old man's consciousness.
NEVERWHERE
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V – shaped nick in the face of the floe, the slope her cutwater often causing her bows to rise till nearly clear of the water, when she would slide backwards, rolling slightly.
South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917
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The environment in the Antarctic is magnificent with glaciers, icebergs and ice floes on a scale which is awe-inspiring.
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Results of seasonality studies of ringed seal canines, in addition to pinniped ratios, show the importance of the floe-edge habitat to Nugumiut residents in outer Frobisher Bay.
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There the whales deliberately tilt the floes so that seals slide off into the water and into the jaws of their attackers.
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This autumn he will be setting off on an historic visit to the Antarctic, spending 50 days on board a ship anchored to a drifting ice floe in the Weddell Sea.
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They have been recorded up to forty and even fifty miles in length, and they have been called floe bergs, because it was supposed that they froze first as ordinary sea-ice and increased by subsequent additions from below.
The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913
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In January 2006 while visiting Antarctica, we witnessed a most unusual method for orca to dislodge a crabeater seal from an ice floe — they made large waves to wash the seal off the relative safety of the ice.
Orca Attack Wave « Isegoria
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Many modern, steel-hulled ships have been damaged by sea ice, but an experienced skipper, carefully picking his way through open leads and uncompacted areas, can crunch through a floe with relative confidence.
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This plan being agreed to, two hands were sent to unstep the flagstaff and bring it forward, while the rest of us dismantled our hut, and dragged the boat to the edge of the floe nearest the shore.
Peter the Whaler
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Great floes jostled against each other piling up to form miniature icebergs.
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He thought of Shackleton who, when forced to lighten his load on the ice floes, would not jettison his banjo.
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I saw walruses and heard their grunts as they lumbered slowly off their ice floes.
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Sea ice is frozen salt water, and when natural forces break it into pieces, the larger ones are called not icebergs but ice floes.
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Linguists might call the monster on the ice-floes a floating signifier, a lexeme whose meaning varies contextually.
