floes in English

noun
1
a sheet of floating ice.
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.
noun

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1. 12 Eider ducks bobbed offshore, dodging the ice floes.

2. Ice-floes are a threat to shipping in the area.

3. Scientific settlements were established on the drift ice and carried thousands of kilometers by ice floes.

4. Now there was ice again—old, thick, and disintegrating floes for as far as the eye could see.

5. Its success was limited by the presence of ice floes, as well as bad weather and fog.

6. There the whales deliberately tilt the floes so that seals slide off into the water and into the jaws of their attackers.

7. This accumulation of ice floes created mountains of ice and snow until ice bridges were formed that completely spanned the river.

8. Stemming from shore ice breakage or the accumulation of conglomerated blocks of ice, some floes can reach 3 m in thickness and can present compact and solid sides because of refreezing.

9. He skinned the dog and improvised a harness, took the ribcage of the dog and improvised a sled, harnessed up an adjacent dog, and disappeared over the ice floes, shit knife in belt.