noun

• An appliance for making ice artificially.

  ‘the ice machine on board the boat broke, leaving the fish to spoil’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Forget ice machines - just put whatever you want chilled on the window ledge.’
  • ‘To save on electricity costs, operate two smaller ice machines in the summer, then shut one done over the winter months.’
  • ‘Request a quiet room - one away from the elevators and ice machine - with plenty of light.’
  • ‘He began with a history of the cocktail, which he traced in large part to the industrial revolution and the invention of ice machines by the 1860s.’
  • ‘Even at the low temperatures of ice machines and ice buckets bacteria can survive and grow.’
  • ‘I bought an ice machine for my house because I was using so much of it.’
  • ‘The plaintiffs allege that the ice machines in the refrigerators didn't work and the temperature controls fluctuated, causing flooding and water and property damage to their homes.’
  • ‘He also bought an ice machine to end the theater's bad reputation for selling warm sodas.’
  • ‘The first order of business was to find the ice machine so we could chill down the remainder of the bottle of wine we opened at lunch.’
  • ‘Every room is equipped with an ice bucket, and every floor with one or more commercial ice machines that churn out vast quantities of perfect ice, 24 hours a day.’