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  • Hoch Zwei/NewSport/Zuma Press McLaren driver Jenson Button of the U.K. cooled off in his cockpit using a dry-ice mixture.

    Vettle Wins Singapore F1 2011

  • Is it not possible to repressurize the shuttle to cause expansion again, and combine this with the dry-ice method?

    Potential Delay In Shuttle Schedule - NASA Watch 2009

  • Then, as dry-ice fog crawled the arena, a spotlight settled on a man in a white cowboy hat, his hands on his hips Old West – style, his cold grimace terrifying, as the announcer hailed “the reigning … world … champion!”

    The Boys from Brazil 2010

  • Then, as dry-ice fog crawled the arena, a spotlight settled on a man in a white cowboy hat, his hands on his hips Old West – style, his cold grimace terrifying, as the announcer hailed “the reigning … world … champion!”

    The Boys from Brazil 2010

  • At the climax of the Malaysian bank's celebration, stagehands lowered a cardboard UFO decked out with flashing lights from the ceiling of the auditorium to land a giant birthday cake amid dry-ice clouds.

    As Western World Flays Bankers, Asia Fêtes Them as Economic Heroes James Hookway 2011

  • Picture this: As the crowd waits with gleeful anticipation for me to enter the room and sign this bad boy into history, that dry-ice fog starts pouring into the room.

    The Obama Diaries Laura Ingraham 2010

  • It was then that in a phantasmagoric spray of light someone emerged from the yawning stage set, striding forth through the dry-ice smoke like a lost god come to claim his rightful mantle.

    Unearthly Asylum P. J. Bracegirdle 2010

  • The lights grew dim, a new fanfare played, and the black curtains on the stage parted to reveal the Osprey, bathed in a dreamlike haze of dry-ice fog and lit by beams of red light.

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • "Mad Men" may be about Madison Avenue, but the dry-ice drama is taped entirely in Los Angeles.

    Manhattan's Grand Entrances 2010

  • The lights grew dim, a new fanfare played, and the black curtains on the stage parted to reveal the Osprey, bathed in a dreamlike haze of dry-ice fog and lit by beams of red light.

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

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