ICEBERG in a Sentence

iceberg

 n.  a large mass of ice floating at sea

1  The third showed the pinnacle of an iceberg piercing a polar winter sky: a muster of northern lights reared their dim lances, close serried, along the horizon.

Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII

2  He is good and great, but severe; and, for me, cold as an iceberg.

Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII

3  Now, that Lazarus should lie stranded there on the curbstone before the door of Dives, this is more wonderful than that an iceberg should be moored to one of the Moluccas.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2. The Carpet-Bag.

4  Some days elapsed, and ice and icebergs all astern, the Pequod now went rolling through the bright Quito spring, which, at sea, almost perpetually reigns on the threshold of the eternal August of the Tropic.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 29. Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb.

5  It is the drifting icebergs setting with any current anywhere, that wreck the ships.

Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII

1  But this is just the tip of an iceberg.

2  The same glacier spawned an iceberg twice that size two years ago. Together, the breaks made a large change that's got the attention of researchers.

3  The ship hit an iceberg and went under.

4  The crew of the Southern Supporter, an Australian customs vessel, has finally arrived here in Cape Town harbor after an epic three-week chase through the treacherous southern ocean, dodging icebergs and high seas to arrest the crew of a ship caught poaching rare Patagonian tooth fish.