How to Use iceberg in a Sentence

iceberg

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  • In the depths of night, the boat strikes an iceberg and sinks.
    — Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2020
  • The trench coat is just the tip of the design iceberg for Panichgul.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Those deals are just the tip of the proverbial iceberg, though.
    — Imani Moise, WSJ, 24 Nov. 2022
  • The bathing bear is the tip of an iceberg of gimmicks at Mabu.
    — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 14 July 2023
  • And if the tip is well done, the iceberg becomes clear.
    — Karl Vick, Time, 3 Dec. 2019
  • From the hills above, the icebergs had all seemed still and sculptural.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 12 June 2024
  • Congress, this is the tip of a very, very large iceberg.
    — WSJ, 14 Mar. 2021
  • This is just the tip of the ancient practice’s iceberg.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2023
  • And keep in mind that these are only the tip of the Twitter brain iceberg.
    — Steve King, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The bread is spread with mayo; shredded iceberg is tucked in at the last minute.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Feb. 2021
  • The iceberg formed when the crack widened on Feb. 26, releasing it from the ice shelf.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 28 Feb. 2021
  • What is the process where pieces of ice break away from a glacier and create an iceberg?
    — CNN, 26 Jan. 2023
  • But parking gaffes are the tip of this iceberg, not to mix our ship metaphors.
    — Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2021
  • But this taste can lead him, so to speak, to miss the ice cubes in the tumbler while seeking the iceberg in the ocean.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
  • This week a giant city-sized iceberg split off an ice shelf in what part of the world?
    — CNN, 26 Jan. 2023
  • More movies are sunk by the hidden part of the iceberg than ever evoke it.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 June 2024
  • The first tragedy came in 1907 when the steamer collided with an iceberg in the Bering Sea.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Dec. 2022
  • That's just the tip of the Big East iceberg, though, as the league is arguably the toughest in the nation and the numbers show it.
    — Shelby Dermer, The Enquirer, 9 Jan. 2024
  • And that’s not all — working with Yeoh is only the tip of the celebrity iceberg.
    — Vulture, 12 Oct. 2022
  • The past decade of food writing has proven that cookbooks are just the tip of the culinary iceberg.
    — Andrea Michelson, Smithsonian, 26 Nov. 2019
  • An iceberg floats in a fjord near the town of Tasiilaq, Greenland, in June 2018.
    — Helen Regan, CNN, 20 May 2020
  • The world's largest iceberg will soon be entering the open ocean.
    — Fox News, 7 Feb. 2020
  • The name might sound a bit boring for the world's largest iceberg, but it is based on science.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 19 May 2021
  • At one point, a guide chiseled chunks off an iceberg and passed them to Scalia.
    — Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan and Alex Mierjeski, Anchorage Daily News, 22 June 2023
  • Can this be anything but the tip of the deception iceberg?
    — Kris Frieswick, WSJ, 13 May 2022
  • Scambos compares the calving of the iceberg to a chisel on a board of wood.
    — Dan Stillman, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Jan. 2023
  • But plants are only the tip of the biophilic design iceberg, so to speak.
    — Michelle Beganskas, Quartz, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Malware-laden Squid Game apps are only the tip of a large iceberg.
    — Chris Olson, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
  • A couple in Scotchtown, New York spotted what turned out to be the tip of a fossil iceberg.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 21 Dec. 2024
  • Think of it as self-care but with more icebergs and fewer distractions.
    — Passport By Forbeslife, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024

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