How do you use Floe in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Floe meaning
A low, flat mass of floating ice.
Synonyms of Floe
Using Floe
- The main meaning on this page is: A low, flat mass of floating ice.
- Useful related words include: ice floe, ice mass.
- In the example corpus, floe often appears in combinations such as: ice floe, floe in.
Context around Floe
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 8 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Floe
- In this selection, "floe" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, ice, breakup, off and product stand out and add context to how "floe" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include an ice floe in the and an ice floe for 99. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "floe" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with floe
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
These include * "Ice Floe 9", composed by Pierre Arvay. (9 words)
The research ship Polarstern, frozen into an ice floe in late October. (12 words)
We'll be choosing the ice floe the boomers will get left out on. (14 words)
The organisation will be based in the 5G Immersive Lab in Eldon Square on Tuesday 1 October and Thursday 3 October, and in Floe at the Stamp Exchange – with Big Issue crew visible around the city centre for three days. (40 words)
He plans on donating 15% of every FLOE product sold—including stickers and T-shirts—to the Flint Water Fund and the Appalachian Freshwater Initiative, both of which help people in their respective communities gain access to clean drinking water. (40 words)
Problematic interactions between polar bears and humans, such as foraging by bears in garbage dumps, have historically been more prevalent in years when ice-floe breakup occurred early and local polar bears were relatively thin. (35 words)
Example sentences (15)
The anglers were on an ice floe in the southeastern area of Upper Red Lake in Beltrami County — about 200 miles (322 kilometers) northwest of Minneapolis — when it broke loose from the shoreline.
The organisation will be based in the 5G Immersive Lab in Eldon Square on Tuesday 1 October and Thursday 3 October, and in Floe at the Stamp Exchange – with Big Issue crew visible around the city centre for three days.
Yet another time out by the lake, there was a sleek, fat otter, dining on a fish it had caught, on an ice floe off the mouth of Oilmen’s Creek.
I chose a remote bay and dropped anchor waiting for the ice floe to form around the hull,” he says.
The research ship Polarstern, frozen into an ice floe in late October.
After ten months stuck in the ice pack, Shackleton and his men survived by camping on the frozen ice, before moving to an ice floe in the hope of drifting to safety.
He plans on donating 15% of every FLOE product sold—including stickers and T-shirts—to the Flint Water Fund and the Appalachian Freshwater Initiative, both of which help people in their respective communities gain access to clean drinking water.
We'll be choosing the ice floe the boomers will get left out on.
Conservation Joint American-Russian freeing effort of whales entrapped by ice floe in Beaufort Sea.
Depending on the timing of ice-floe breakup in the fall, she may have fasted for up to eight months.
Due to warming air temperatures, ice-floe breakup in western Hudson Bay is currently occurring three weeks earlier than it did 30 years ago, reducing the duration of the polar bear feeding season.
From the Pole, they travelled towards Svalbard but, due to the unstable nature of the ice, ended their crossing at the ice edge after drifting south on an ice floe for 99 days.
On 22 June the pair decided to rest on a stable ice floe while they repaired their equipment and gathered their strength for the next stage of their journey.
Problematic interactions between polar bears and humans, such as foraging by bears in garbage dumps, have historically been more prevalent in years when ice-floe breakup occurred early and local polar bears were relatively thin.
These include * "Ice Floe 9", composed by Pierre Arvay.
Common combinations with floe
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- ice floe 10×
- floe in 4×