1.   Humour Humour can be an excellent behaviour for easing tensions and breaking the ice between people.

2.   I have to break the ice with a long pole before I can lower a bucket into water.

3.   In the winter, she rose early to break the ice in the washing bowls.

4.   She helps break the ice when I am interviewing.

5.   That always seems to happen when you break the ice.

6.   This gambit nevertheless breaks the ice, and they begin by discussing the merits of various brands of scotch.

7.   To break the ice, the dorm leader asked us to tell the group what our favorite home-cooked meal was.

8.   We broke the ice which held our relations in a paralysing grip.

9.   Along with giving rise to a few grins at the cluelessness of the American visitors, the incident broke the ice for a little crosscultural socializing.

10.   And that sort of broke the ice.