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ADJECTIVE icy COMPARATIVE icier SUPERLATIVE iciest

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icy

If something is icy it is covered with ice. Be careful, the sidewalk is icy. The icier parts of the sidewalk need extra salt.

icy

(= frigid, frosty, frozen, glacial, wintry) devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain a frigid greeting got a frosty reception a frozen look on their faces a glacial handshake icy stare wintry smile covered with or containing or consisting of ice icy northern waters (= arctic, frigid, gelid, glacial, polar) extremely cold an arctic climate a frigid day gelid waters of the North Atlantic glacial winds icy hands polar weather shiny and slick as with a thin coating of ice roads and trees glazed with an icy film

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Simple sentences

During the last Ice Age, so much water was trapped in icy glaciers that the sea level dropped by as much as 120 meters.
Jim slipped on the icy road and got hurt.
I slipped and fell on the icy sidewalk.
Because of the icy streets, we could not drive the car.
The sled accelerated as it went down the icy slope.
Take particular care when walking on icy paths.
Driving on an icy street is a dangerous business.
The road is icy, so take care.
It is hard to keep our balance on icy streets.
It was mad of him to try to swim in the icy water.
Under Europa's icy crust might be water ocean.
The road is icy.
The warm punch fuming in the icy air called to mind caldrons, witches, and arcane incantations.
The car came off the carriageway, due to icy conditions on the road.
The icy wind cut us to the bones.
Many accidents resulted from the icy conditions of the road.
She gave me an icy look.
Under Europa's icy crust might be an ocean of water.
The water is icy.
I slipped on an icy patch.
Tom sprinkled ashes on the icy sidewalk.
The water was icy cold.

Movie subtitles

In the great Gold Rush, Alaska was the hope and dream of men, the ruthless siren of the Far North, beckoning thousands to her icy bosom. Beckoning thousands to her unknown regions.
Far into the icy north, deep into the silent nowhere, came an undaunted lone prospector.
There he sat, resting his weary bones as the icy wind howled through the knothole.
And yet you have written a tale that sent my blood into icy creeps.
Something cold and clinging, like an icy hand.
Charlie, he took it right out on the icy road and skidded into a streetcar.
A blast of icy air if that rear door was opened.
In the icy water, it makes them feel good to see this hat.
If he be leaden, icy-cold, unwilling. be thou so too, and so break off your talk. and give us notice of his inclination.
As I speak to you now, the icy water of the ponds and ruins fills the hollows of the mass graves, a frigid and muddy water, as murky as our memory.
My icy snow princess.
The steps were icy.
He realizes, of course, that if his fingers slip from the icy shrouds for a split second, he'll perish immediately.
Here's icy beauty Lee Remick, nominated for her turn as Jack Lemmon's boozy bride.
Icy floods of the majestic glaciers fall into this tropical world.
After that we witness a huge battlefield of nature, where spruces, icicled with lichen, stand like icy grey warriors as the last outpost of life against the bastions of eternal snow.
Whether it be the biting cold or icy snow storms, there's nothing which can harm the cloddy and thick-skinned fellow.
At night the icy winds freeze rivers and lakes.
He took it right out on the icy road and skidded into a streetcar.
And last a very brief time. This is miss Icy.
Gabby. It's me, Icy.
Icy's a girl that can lie and make it stick.
Icy's testimony will be all right.
The major was with us the night it happened. All night-Ain't that right, Icy?
Have you got the car ticket? Yes. Icy gave it to me.
I know. Icy and me, we're trusting you.
Nah, no, there ain't. Where is Icy?
You're safe now. And then an icy wind touched me, but it wasn't a wind because all the leaves were still.
At times, I saw in their icy eyes. a desire to see me dead.
My wife had the same triangular face. the same icy, enigmatic glance.
It's time somebody faced that icy rage of yours.
He watches me all the time through those icy eyes of his.
You know, if you hadn't been poured into that icy mold of conventionality you'd be a good egg.
The steps were icy, and Quint, he came home late after we were all a-bed.
And then recently Mr Cleaver, the government's nuclear adviser. Slippe on an icy patch.
It was a very icy patch.
Maybe the roads are icy.
The icy river thawed.
You will die of suffocation in the icy cold of space.
You must seize joy like hedge roses in the light of the moon, before an icy winter comes and sweeps us away like leaves in the wind.

News and current affairs

He claims they are drowning as their icy habitat disappears.
She went onto the icy Neva river during a bombardment, together with a baby committed to her care - my mother's 30 year-old brother.
Europa, Jupiter's icy moon, has been spotted spewing water into space from a hidden ocean that could hold twice the volume of all of Earth's oceans.
For this, she deserves wholehearted respect and full support, all the more so in view of the icy response of many within her own party.