dry icein a sentence
- X says they should leave now, and call the authorities; Y wants to dissect him on the spot, but is reminded that he might vaporize, like the spaceship; Z is all for getting him out to civilization on a sled, then packing him in dry ice and selling him to the highest bidder; B points out that their sled dogs are taking an unhealthy interest and have begun to whine, but she is disregarded due to her excessive, Russian, female way of putting things.† (source)
- Someone whispered next to Wang, "The snow is now composed of frozen carbon dioxide, dry ice."† (source)
- Steam rises from the well of dry ice.† (source)
- In fact, it solidifies into dry ice.† (source)
- For dessert they ate the brownies Nan had made the night before, topped with the vanilla ice cream they had packed away in dry ice.† (source)
- It's a hit below the belt to see yourself ninety years gone, the vapors of eternity rising from you like breath off dry ice.† (source)
- Mist swirled around him, pluming from the blade as if it had turned to dry ice.† (source)
- The nun's blood arrived at the C.D.C. in glass tubes in a box lined with dry ice.† (source)
- The mist in the dream swarms like the foam of dry ice on the weatherless mountainside.† (source)
- The fog hung over the road like evaporating dry ice on a concert stage, and the sky had the same ugly tones as it had the day before, making him suspect that the lights would appear again tonight, which not only boded well for the tourists this weekend but also meant that he should probably call Alvin.† (source)
- The refrigerated cakes come in flimsy cardboard boxes steaming with dry ice.† (source)
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- I made accusations based on everything that's happened — from McAllister's scenario to Babcock's statement that they'd send out an execution team to find me… to that Anglicized voice of dry ice who told me to cease-and-desist with Medusa or they'd call me insane and put me back in a mental stockade.† (source)
- When I pour it on my hair, I feel a sticky cold like dry ice, then a soporific heat.† (source)
- Meanwhile, Otis's form began to dissolve, melting into curls of white vapor like dry ice.† (source)
- The lowest layers were composed of water snow, then dry ice, and finally, on top, snow made of oxygen and nitrogen.† (source)
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