: 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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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 21 May 2025
No, these are not gourmet dishes but rather gelato flavors devised by two top local ice-cream enterprises, Otaleg! and Fatamorgana.
—Seth Sherwood, New York Times, 15 May 2025
Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 23 May 2025
Next year, the owners of ice cream bar company Palacana plan to open an authentic, upscale Mexican cantina called Urbana Sur in the Pennway Point district.
—Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 23 May 2025
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Adjective
Sanders: Poor guy with the ice-cream cone was going to be crossing the street in Honolulu.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 21 May 2025
No, these are not gourmet dishes but rather gelato flavors devised by two top local ice-cream enterprises, Otaleg! and Fatamorgana.
—Seth Sherwood, New York Times, 15 May 2025
Noun
Armani/Dolci ice cream carts, life buoys, surfboards, table football and Armani/Casa Outdoor furnishings will be part of the decor and offerings.
—Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 23 May 2025
Next year, the owners of ice cream bar company Palacana plan to open an authentic, upscale Mexican cantina called Urbana Sur in the Pennway Point district.
—Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 23 May 2025
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“Ice-cream.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice-cream. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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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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