: 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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—Akash Kapur, Travel + Leisure, 7 Apr. 2026
Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2026
Brason was working at her ice cream shop two doors down at the time of the robbery.
—CBS News, 1 May 2026
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Adjective
This decadent ice-cream cake is truly a mint chocolate lover's dream!
—Patricia S York, Southern Living, 21 Apr. 2026
These included an ice-cream parlor, souvenir shops, and homes repurposed into Airbnbs—all by-products of a growing tourism industry on Fogo.
—Akash Kapur, Travel + Leisure, 7 Apr. 2026
Noun
The dessert was served with crème fraîche ice cream and honey from the White House garden.
—Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2026
Brason was working at her ice cream shop two doors down at the time of the robbery.
—CBS News, 1 May 2026
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“Ice-cream.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice-cream. Accessed 3 May. 2026.
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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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