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Examples of icebox in a Sentence
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Wear Comfortable Clothing Airplane cabin climate settings seem to vacillate between icebox and toaster oven, with no habitable happy medium in between.
—Eric Rosen, Travel + Leisure, 22 Mar. 2024
As freezing weather continues to blanket the Midwest, many Hoosiers might be asking themselves when Central Indiana will feel like less like an icebox.
—John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Jan. 2024
Get The Recipe 19 of 75 Strawberry-Pretzel Icebox Pie
Cool off after a heated egg hunt with a slice of icebox Easter pie.
—Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 15 Feb. 2024
When the Court moved into its new building—a building so ostentatiously self-important, down to the last trimmings, that reporters likened it to an icebox decorated by a mad upholsterer—the Justices struck down more than a dozen laws in eighteen months.
—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
Don’t use a springform pan to contain icebox cakes with runny pudding and caramel layers: The structure could collapse.
—Sarah Gish, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
Fresh snow and a cold day mean a night in the icebox.
—Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2024
The softening earth could also unleash viruses, chemicals or mercury, a recent study warned—a Pandora's icebox of unexpected consequences.
—Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 19 Dec. 2023
And that tiny icebox — three inches tall and covered in reproductions of stickers by local graffiti crews — turned his life around.
—Liza Weisstuch, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1792, in the meaning defined above
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“Icebox.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/icebox. Accessed 10 Jun. 2024.
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icebox
noun
ice·box
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