After the long hike, we cooled off with a cold bottle of ice beer that tasted richer and smoother than a regular pale lager.

At the gala, people whispered that the actress was an ice queen, admired for her looks but feared for her coldness.

Breaking the ice, she told a joke that made everyone laugh.

Her joke breaks the ice at every awkward meeting.

When she told that funny story, she broke the ice and everyone started talking.

To lighten the tense board meeting, Maria decided to shatter the ice with a surprising confession about her college misadventures.

Her unexpected joke shatters the ice in the tense meeting, and everyone starts to relax.

During the winter festival, the final climber's jump shattered the ice and sent glittering shards across the frozen lake.

The ship plowed through the frozen bay, shattering the ice and leaving a glittering wake.

In the coastal village, old ice-houses stood along the harbor, their thick walls keeping fish fresh through the summer.