icy

Preposition: on

slope: The whole resort was great and the runs excellent but getting icy on the lower slopes because of no snow for a week.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

make: Ice verb ( ice, icing, iced ) - To make something icy; to become icy.

Modifies a noun

• coldness: The sky was now completely overcast, the rain falling in torrents of an icy coldness.
• blast: Now to face the icy blast on the way to the tour bus then the snow on the way to Minot.
• wasteland: The barren icy wasteland slowly warmed to become thick woodland.
• crust: This hints at the near certainty of a totally liquid ocean beneath the icy crust.
• puddle: No rain which was nice but lots and lots of icy puddles.
• chill: An icy chill gripped Wallis: all those lives, he thought.

Modifying Another Word

• very: Second, the floor of the freezer was very icy.
• still: Despite the promise of spring the highland air was still icy cold.
• too: Welcome to 2002, which has kicked in a bit too icy we fear.
• pretty: I built a snow jump out of this snow bank in my yard, but the run up is pretty icy and sketchy.
• often: The alternative is to follows a narrow and often icy green path.
• so: The frosts have been so icy, so today was a change from that scene.

Used with adjective complement

• get: The black runs also got very icy toward weekend, making them far more challenging.
• become: On emerging from the forest, the stony path became increasingly icy.
• turn: Barks turns icy at the mention of this quango.