: a sweet flavored frozen food containing cream or butterfat and usually eggs
Examples of ice-cream in a Sentence
Noun
What flavor of ice cream do you like?
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David Coggins, Robb Report, 27 Apr. 2024
Caffè Sorrento will take over the former Flour Child cakes and ice-cream sandwiches spot in a strip mall that includes Hooligan’s Pub and Flying Pie Pizzaria.
—Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 11 Apr. 2024
In the restaurant’s gilded ice-cream parlor, diners availed themselves of eleven flavors, along with Irish coffee and lemon ice doused in vodka.
—Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
Kulfi, which refers to an ice-cream adjacent dessert associated with celebration, aims to create a space for those not as represented in the beauty sphere with playful hues and quality products.
—Alexandra Domrongchai, Travel + Leisure, 28 Mar. 2024
Friendly’s Restaurants was always considered a casual dining eatery, mostly in the Northeast, known for its signature ice-cream, sandwiches and burgers, a place to dine with family and friends.
—Gary Stern, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
The last weekend of the summer was Gretta Benson-Klein’s ice-cream social, an event to which the entire church was invited.
—Aryn Kyle, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
Betty Rae’s is adding a fourth location to its growing ice-cream empire.
—David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 7 Mar. 2024
But bringing his biographical show to Off Broadway is an achievement that Summers has found to be as satisfying as riding down a spiraling slide into a giant ice-cream sundae.
—Dave Itzkoff, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2024
Michael Burgess, Charlotte Observer, 10 May 2024
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Shop owner adds THC to Oreo ice cream, feds say.
—Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 10 May 2024
Handel's Homemade Ice Cream: The ice cream chain has a new Carrot Cake flavor available for Mother's Day weekend and through the month.
—Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 10 May 2024
For clients such as the luxury fashion conglomerate LVMH and the British government, Bompas and his business partner, Harry Parr, 40, have created wobbly, dollhouse-size replicas of St. Paul’s Cathedral and Buckingham Palace out of gelatin and crafted faux fruit from glow-in-the-dark ice cream.
—Alexa Brazilian Mari Maeda and Yuji Oboshi, New York Times, 9 May 2024
For dessert, don’t miss the traditional kulfi (pistachio, rose, and cinnamon) ice cream.
—Stephanie Burt, Saveur, 8 May 2024
On Monday, the local ice cream chain released Peanut Butter Brittle, the company's first bonus flavor of the year.
—Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 7 May 2024
The dessert menu includes mochi, milk donuts, sesame balls, cheesecake, ice cream and watermelon.
—Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 6 May 2024
The couple went to high school together and have jointly run a farm and ranch, opened an ice cream shop, and helped manage a family restaurant, according to their biographies.
—Mallory Moench, TIME, 27 Apr. 2024
Adjective
The film depicts one madcap night in 1980s New York for Griffin Dunne’s Paul Hackett, capturing the era’s art world, lofts, clubs, and dive bars (remember those?), not to mention angry mobs and a bloodthirsty ice-cream truck.
—David Coggins, Robb Report, 27 Apr. 2024
Caffè Sorrento will take over the former Flour Child cakes and ice-cream sandwiches spot in a strip mall that includes Hooligan’s Pub and Flying Pie Pizzaria.
—Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 11 Apr. 2024
In the restaurant’s gilded ice-cream parlor, diners availed themselves of eleven flavors, along with Irish coffee and lemon ice doused in vodka.
—Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
Kulfi, which refers to an ice-cream adjacent dessert associated with celebration, aims to create a space for those not as represented in the beauty sphere with playful hues and quality products.
—Alexandra Domrongchai, Travel + Leisure, 28 Mar. 2024
Friendly’s Restaurants was always considered a casual dining eatery, mostly in the Northeast, known for its signature ice-cream, sandwiches and burgers, a place to dine with family and friends.
—Gary Stern, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
The last weekend of the summer was Gretta Benson-Klein’s ice-cream social, an event to which the entire church was invited.
—Aryn Kyle, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
Betty Rae’s is adding a fourth location to its growing ice-cream empire.
—David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 7 Mar. 2024
But bringing his biographical show to Off Broadway is an achievement that Summers has found to be as satisfying as riding down a spiraling slide into a giant ice-cream sundae.
—Dave Itzkoff, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2024
Noun
The shop will also offer other dessert options like waffles, cake, ice cream, sundaes, dessert nachos and coffee.
—Michael Burgess, Charlotte Observer, 10 May 2024
Here’s where the law stands in each state April 19, 2024 7:00 AM
Read Next
National
Shop owner adds THC to Oreo ice cream, feds say.
—Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 10 May 2024
Handel's Homemade Ice Cream: The ice cream chain has a new Carrot Cake flavor available for Mother's Day weekend and through the month.
—Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 10 May 2024
For clients such as the luxury fashion conglomerate LVMH and the British government, Bompas and his business partner, Harry Parr, 40, have created wobbly, dollhouse-size replicas of St. Paul’s Cathedral and Buckingham Palace out of gelatin and crafted faux fruit from glow-in-the-dark ice cream.
—Alexa Brazilian Mari Maeda and Yuji Oboshi, New York Times, 9 May 2024
For dessert, don’t miss the traditional kulfi (pistachio, rose, and cinnamon) ice cream.
—Stephanie Burt, Saveur, 8 May 2024
On Monday, the local ice cream chain released Peanut Butter Brittle, the company's first bonus flavor of the year.
—Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 7 May 2024
The dessert menu includes mochi, milk donuts, sesame balls, cheesecake, ice cream and watermelon.
—Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 6 May 2024
The couple went to high school together and have jointly run a farm and ranch, opened an ice cream shop, and helped manage a family restaurant, according to their biographies.
—Mallory Moench, TIME, 27 Apr. 2024
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ice cream
noun
(ˈ)ī-ˈskrēm 
ˈī-ˌskrēm
: a frozen food containing sweetened and flavored cream or butterfat
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