icebreaker
ice-breaker

But, even so, it would take the icebreaker a day and a half to get there.

I asked her what she was drinking, as an icebreaker.

The Icebreakers had played that game more than three hundred years ago.

"I'm not sure I like coming in second to an icebreaker."

She is the first icebreaker built for the water authority in 24 years.

On the other hand, pets can be a social icebreaker.

Use icebreakers in an awkward meeting to get people talking.

"Around here that could be a real icebreaker, son," he told him.

We observe that China is even now building an icebreaker.

The delivery was followed by a class of similar icebreakers.

The collection was an icebreaker with patients of all ages.

At the same time, America's three large icebreakers are deteriorating.

"We created it as an icebreaker for young adults to meet each other."

How else might an office icebreaker invade participants' personal space?

As for Japan, the icebreaker architecture was the first experience.

The state of the fish camp turned out to be an excellent icebreaker.

He says Watergate is now little more than a conversation icebreaker.

The new icebreaker is expected to enter service in November 2015.

That's not the sort of icebreaker you want to have."

Whatever the crisis, spring training cuts through the bad news like an icebreaker.

But sports talk, particularly for the boys, has proven an icebreaker.

"Even a Canadian icebreaker could not get through," she added.

Thus the sister icebreakers were able to complete the passage only in 1915.

At the time, the Glacier was the world's largest icebreaker.

It served as a great icebreaker for what could have been a tense situation.