black icein a sentence
- I know what's coming: slush, darkness, flu, black ice, wind, salt stains on boots.† (source)
- The mike looked like a black ice cream cone before Jennifer's face.† (source)
- And even before Thanksgiving, the weather had been cold enough to freeze the freshwater part of the river; there was black ice all the way from Gravesend to Kensington Corners.† (source)
- He had endured midwinter darkness in Russia where the temperature dropped to forty below: endless blizzards, snow and black ice, the only cheer the green neon palm tree that burned twenty-four hours a day outside the provincial bar where his father liked to drink.† (source)
- I joined a soul band, Black Ice, on the other side of town, playing any instrument I could round up-sax, flute, and bass, all borrowed.† (source)
- You know all about the terrible beauty of datumplane, the three-dimensional highways with their landscapes of black ice and neon perimeters and Day-Glo Strange Loops and shimmering skyscrapers of data blocks under hovering clouds of AI presence.† (source)
- My truck seemed to have no problem with the black ice that covered the roads.† (source)
- Mountains of snow melted into hills while the February thaw brought the fun of flash flooding, swollen creeks, and black ice when the thermometer dropped to freezing each night.† (source)
- Down below we got sleet, which froze overnight into oceans of black ice.† (source)
- It was around October, and there was black ice all over the mountain roads as she drove the friend's car toward Montana.† (source)
- For a moment she thought she saw something spark in his eyes, but a moment later they were black ice again.† (source)
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- The paths were treacherous with black ice, and hoarfrost sparkled in the moonlight on the broken panes of the Glass Gardens.† (source)
- But, lying on the black ice there, Billy stared into the patina of the corporal's boots, saw Adam and Eve in the golden depths.† (source)
- He shuffled like an old man, as if the carpet under his feet was really a slick sheet of black ice.† (source)
- Jon was armored in black ice, but his blade burned red in his fist.† (source)
- Myra drove me there: in view of the black ice caused by a thaw followed by a freeze, it was too slippery for me to walk, she said.† (source)
- Transparent mountain ranges of data, endless glaciers of ROMworks, access ganglia spreading like fissures, iron clouds of semisentient internal pro:ess bubbles, glowing pyramids of primary source stuff, each guarded by lakes of black ice and armies of black-pulse pilages.† (source)
- He watched the cracks along the Wall go from red to grey to black, from streaks of fire to rivers of black ice.† (source)
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