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Usage examples of icebreaker.

An icebreaker had to clear the way for the fleet submarine Kaliningrad to get under way, and now it proceeded at full speed under the icecap.

The Phoenix, along with the other two icebreakers, should have been ninety miles almost due east of the oil rig, but in the subsequent search, Tibbits had gone farther south, over the coastline of Melville Peninsula.

The USS Sennet, a brand new Balao class sub, followed close behind the icebreaker, which was ploughing through the pack ice at a steady rate of six knots.

Lawrence, but it was shattered to mosaic by the icebreakers, aware of its defeat as the grain ships moved through it to berth by the grain elevators.

It would work out for him to be the last out of the game only if the Icebreakers batted around—and he came up twice in the process.

In closer to land than Jefferson I could see two other surface ships, probably the icebreakers we'd been briefed on earlier.

Normally, I'd ask that we get one of the Russian icebreakers out in front just to be safe.

The icebreakers are moving more slowly now, by rote programming rather than the Mayor’s hand.

Particularly when it comes to icebreakers Heavy icebreakers are kind of funny to deal in, even for the big boys You know why?

In opening up the harbor channel, the icebreakers had pushed great boulders of ice toward the barge.

These pylons had prows like icebreakers on their upstream side, and on their downstream side there was attached a kind of pontoon bridge, which rode over the passing ice of the glacier using cushioned smart pads that expanded or contracted to compensate for drops and rises in the ice.

Gillespie was certain the massive reinforced bow of the icebreaker would crush the pressure hull of the submarine.

He watched as his icebreaker strobed and shifted in front of him, only faintly aware of his hands playing across the deck, making minor adjustments.

The program in the jeweler's vise was a Russian military icebreaker, a killer-virus program.

Already, ships were fighting their way through the late-spring ice, shepherded by navy icebreakers like the Yamal and Rossiya, to deliver the drilling equipment needed to commence proper exploration for later production.