break the ice

[breɪk ðə aɪs]

Definition:
1. Make people feel more comfortable.
2. To make people who have not met before feel more relaxed with each other.

Use 'break the ice' in a sentence:

• 1. I usually break the ice in awkward social situations by telling an amusing anecdote.
• 2. Break the Ice Improving the Active Interaction in the TEFL Classroom: An Action Research Report.
• 3. When I started college, I used to ask questions in class to break the ice and make new friends.
• 4. Thee host told a joke to his guest to break the ice.
• 5. Jim started to break the ice up on the frozen lake.
• 6. Just tell a joke to break the ice with your team.
• 7. This will help break the ice and chances are no one else is going to do it.
• 8. Everything feels so formal that it's good to break the ice.
• 9. Let's kiss to break the ice.
• 10. Bus Stops: Break the ice always with a smile.
• 11. I'll give a prize to the best idea. Talking of good ideas, here's one to break the ice at a wedding reception.
• 12. Party games can help to break the ice.
• 13. to break the ice, and/ or to end a conversation.
• 14. A: Once you break the ice, it will be better and better.
• 15. A few drinks will help to break the ice at the party.
• 16. In order to break the ice the interviewer may ask some trivial questions about the weather or traffic.
• 17. We need some icebreakers to break the ice at the workshop.
• 18. He is the first to break the ice of the enterprise.
• 19. I wanna break the ice with the woman in homicide.
• 20. Enough to break the ice! Hi, my name is John.
• 21. Time your coffee break along with your employees' coffee break. That helps break the ice.
• 22. Maybe you just need a few pick-up lines, you know, break the ice.
• 23. A man with good social skills knows the right time to break the ice.
• 24. The host tell a joke to his guest to break the ice.
• 25. We need someone to break the ice.
• 26. I never know how to break the ice and start conversations.
• 27. To break the ice Ted spoke of his interest in mountain climbing, and they soon had a conversation going.
• 28. When meeting potential new clients, it's important to break the ice by starting the conversation.
• 29. But you put a bunch of young kids together and the noise tells you they break the ice in five minutes.
• 30. I suppose we'd better& better break the ice.
• 31. It needs to break the ice, so we say: the scene is very cold!
• 32. What we have to do now is to break the ice.
• 33. If we can't break the ice.
• 34. After a long silence his remarks helped to break the ice.
• 35. The host told a joke to his guest to break the ice.
• 36. Once you break the ice, continue with your normal tone and speak few words about relevant matter.
• 37. Instead of having to break the ice with someone, assume there is no ice.
• 38. I'll break the ice and start a conversation.
• 39. Saying something about the weather is the most typical way to break the ice.
• 40. We British can be a bit reserved or formal so it's good if someone can break the ice.
• 41. We all want to talk on this subject, but no one is willing to break the ice.
• 42. Break the ice doesn't mean to knock someone's house down.
• 43. The best way to break the ice is to offer her a drink.
• 44. The major purpose of his trip was to break the ice, and his itinerary so far has been packed full.
• 45. Enough to break the ice!
• 46. It is so easy for children to break the ice in several minutes.
• 47. The host told a joke to his guests to break the ice.
• 48. To become an effective communicator, first thing you need to do is to learn to break the ice.
• 49. I hate going to parties. I never know how to break the ice and start conversations with people.
• 50. What we have to do now is to break the ice .
• 51. He told an interesting story to break the ice.
• 52. Complimenting someone on their garment is also a great way to break the ice.