ICICLE in a Sentence

Learn ICICLE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for ICICLE, such as:

1. In a sky of iron the points of the Dipper hung like icicles and Orion flashed his cold fires.
2. An icicle is a spike of ice formed when water dripping or falling from another object freezes.
3. She struggled with a chaos of thoughts and there was a cold pain in her heart as if an icicle had pierced it.

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 Meanings and Examples of ICICLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
icicle
 n.  pendent spear of ice formed by the freezing of dripping water
Classic Sentence:
1  She struggled with a chaos of thoughts and there was a cold pain in her heart as if an icicle had pierced it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
2  She fled back to the dancers, and at Dave Dyer's masterstroke of dropping an icicle down Mrs. McGanum's back she applauded hysterically.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  In a sky of iron the points of the Dipper hung like icicles and Orion flashed his cold fires.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
4  Enveloped in their shaggy watch coats, and with their heads muffled in woollen comforters, all bedarned and ragged, and their beards stiff with icicles, they seemed an eruption of bears from Labrador.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
5  The long rows of teeth on the bulwarks glistened in the moonlight; and like the white ivory tusks of some huge elephant, vast curving icicles depended from the bows.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22. Merry Christmas.
Example Sentence:
1  An icicle is a spike of ice formed when water dripping or falling from another object freezes.