They had advanced towards the Behring Strait; they had discovered two hundred leagues of North American coast, and they now prepared to spend the winter in these icebound regions.
It was a daring venture, but the expedition was ill-equipped to battle with the icebound seas of the frozen north.
Passing Cape Farewell, he sailed north-west with the Greenland current, which brought him to the icebound shores near Hudson's Bay.
For the next two hundred years the icebound regions of the north were practically left free from invasion, silent, inhospitable, unapproachable.
And yet, shut up as they were in the heart of a strange and unknown land, with their ships icebound and nought but savages around, there is no sound of murmur or complaint.
November found the poor Victory hopelessly icebound and her crew doomed to another winter in the same region.
So icebound was the country that it was April 1558 before he was able to leave Moscow for the south, to accomplish, if possible, the orders of the Merchant Adventurers to find an overland route to Cathay.
Were the Reds engaged in enlarging their icebound headquarters?
Their icebound moccasins were sadly worn by much travel, and the sharp ice of the river jams had cut them to rags.
He removed her icebound moccasins while he listened to her tale, and stuck the point of his knife into her feet that he might see how far they were frozen.
What we know of Mars, then, shows us a planet, icebound every night, but with a day temperature somewhat above freezing-point.
After having gone three or four miles up this icebound stream, which ran through a narrow valley with steep sloping sides, the guide warned our hunters that they were close to the place where the water would be found open.
The Belle of Kolguev+ From Iceboundon the Kolguev, p.
The Baltic provinces of Russia were earmarked for Germany, and Russia, thus cut off from the western seas, was to have icebound Archangel and distant Vladivostok as her only ports.
An inward sweep of the Gulf Stream washes the shore, keeping it free of ice the year around, though the White Sea, to the southward, isicebound six months of the year.
All the fishing-boats which had lain icebound off Marstrand were now streaming out.
As the storm came sweeping over the icebound gallias it threw itself upon the vessel, as though from old habit it would drive her through the water.
All the seamen and fishermen who lay icebound at Marstrand used to pass Torarin's cabin to climb the rocks and look for any sign of the ice parting in the coves and sounds.
Rather they seemed places for summer trips alone, to be left in winter icebound and desolate.
This was the end of Frobisher's enterprise, but in the next forty years other English sailors followed where he had gone before, and opened up to geographical knowledge fresh stretches of icebound coast and wintry sea.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "icebound" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: confined; cramped; limited; qualified; restricted; stinted
