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Icebound is an English word with synonyms like frozen. Below you'll find 5 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Icebound in a sentence

Icebound meaning

Completely surrounded by ice and therefore unable to move.

Synonyms of Icebound

frozen

Related words

Other words often associated with Icebound or its synonyms:

cold unmoving frostbitten rooted icy sleety glaciated unmelted unfrozen

Using Icebound

  • The main meaning on this page is: Completely surrounded by ice and therefore unable to move.
  • Useful related words include: frozen.
  • In the example corpus, icebound often appears in combinations such as: his icebound, icebound ship.

Context around Icebound

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 25.6 words
  • Position in the sentence: 0 start, 1 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

become 1×

Often after:

ship 2× continent 1× overpass 1×

Sentence patterns with Icebound

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

on his icebound ship 2× on an icebound overpass on 1× terror become icebound the first 1× understand the icebound continent 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

john collier s 2× i rolled my 1× the presence of 1× the two ships 1×

Common sentence endings:

his icebound ship 2× by a monster 1× drive from lyon 1× the icebound continent 1×

Words around Icebound

Just before it in the word index:

iceborne 4 icebergs 35 iceberg 230 icebath 2 icea 5 ice 8.091

Just after it in the word index:

icebox 8 iceboxes 2 icebreaker 43 icebreakers 19 icebreaking 2 icebridge 7

Similar in corpus frequency:

aaas 7 aacc 7 aacs 7 aafes 7 aah 7 aankh 7

Corpus analysis for Icebound

  • In this selection, "icebound" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 25.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, become, ship, continent and overpass stand out and add context to how "icebound" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include on his icebound ship and on an icebound overpass on. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "icebound" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with icebound

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

John Collier’s painting of Henry Hudson with his son and some crew members after a mutiny on his icebound ship. (21 words)

John Collier 's painting of Henry Hudson with his son and some crew members after a mutiny on his icebound ship. (21 words)

The presence of Mr. Kerry, the highest-ranking United States government official ever to visit Antarctica, lifted the morale of scientists working to understand the icebound continent. (27 words)

Longer example sentences

The two ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror become icebound the first winter, and the captains and crew struggle to survive while being stalked across an Arctic landscape by a monster. (31 words)

I rolled my eyes and muttered about snowbound drama queens, then had to retract everything when we ended up on an icebound overpass on our drive from Lyon. (28 words)

The presence of Mr. Kerry, the highest-ranking United States government official ever to visit Antarctica, lifted the morale of scientists working to understand the icebound continent. (27 words)

Example sentences (5)

The presence of Mr. Kerry, the highest-ranking United States government official ever to visit Antarctica, lifted the morale of scientists working to understand the icebound continent.

I rolled my eyes and muttered about snowbound drama queens, then had to retract everything when we ended up on an icebound overpass on our drive from Lyon.

John Collier’s painting of Henry Hudson with his son and some crew members after a mutiny on his icebound ship.

John Collier 's painting of Henry Hudson with his son and some crew members after a mutiny on his icebound ship.

The two ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror become icebound the first winter, and the captains and crew struggle to survive while being stalked across an Arctic landscape by a monster.

Common combinations with icebound

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "icebound" in a sentence?
An example: "The presence of Mr. Kerry, the highest-ranking United States government official ever to visit Antarctica, lifted the morale of scientists working to understand the icebound continent." This page contains 5 example sentences with the word "icebound" from authentic English texts.
What does "icebound" mean?
Icebound means: Completely surrounded by ice and therefore unable to move.
What are synonyms of "icebound"?
Common synonyms of "icebound" include: frozen.
How many example sentences with "icebound" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 5 example sentences with "icebound", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.