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How to use icicle in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Icicle means a drooping, tapering shape of ice. Example: “When icicles start to form on the eaves you know the roads will be icy.”

Examples of icicle by meaning

nounA drooping, tapering shape of ice.

  • Several days of sub-zero temperatures caused icicles up to 1.5 metres long to form in tunnels across Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Cumbria.2021 February 24, “Network News: NR takes pride in track teams as effects of Storm Darcy repelled...”, in RAIL, number 925, page 13

More sentences with icicle

  • When icicles start to form on the eaves you know the roads will be icy.From the entry form
  • Orlav's mustache was frozen stiff with icicles hanging from the tips.2010, Carole Marsh, The Mystery in Icy Antarctica. From the entry degomble
  • So, I watched from behind an icicle plant bank getting angrier and angrier by the minute.2008, Jahnets, The Rad of Jahnets. From the entry icicle plant
  • Mesembryanthemum criniflorum or Dorotheanthus bellidiformis Also known as ice plant, icicle plant, pebble plant, and fig marigold.2002, Sybille Engels, Basic Gardening: Everything You Need to Make Your Garden Grow. From the entry icicle plant
  • 'It's that bad I must have peed icicles when I got up this morn,' he gasped.2001, Oonagh Morrison, For promised joy, page 177. From the entry rednosed
  • You'll have icicles hanging from your schmeckle."1994, Tom Boswell, Glenn Stout, editors, The Best American Sports Writing, page 65. From the entry schmeckle
  • Then a clutch of long sharp icicles broke from a chandelierlike mass above his head and fell, shattering around the piano like glass swords.1988, James Houston, Whiteout. From the entry chandelierlike
  • Using the icicle as an underpull, I chipped a good jug over the top and made two footholds on the steep slab.1971, Don Whillans, Alick Ormerod, Don Whillans: Portrait of a Mountaineer, page 184. From the entry underpull
  • Among them was the ship of the Muscovite Embassy flying its double-headed black eagle from the main mast, which was hung with many-coloured icicles several yards in length.1928, Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography, London: The Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished as Orlando: A Biography (eBook no.…. From the entry mainmast

Meaning of icicle

  1. noun A drooping, tapering shape of ice.

Full definition of icicle

Questions about icicle in a sentence

How do you use icicle in a sentence?
Icicle is used as a noun. For example: “When icicles start to form on the eaves you know the roads will be icy.”
What is a short sentence with icicle?
“You'll have icicles hanging from your schmeckle."”
What does icicle mean?
Icicle means a drooping, tapering shape of ice.

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