How to Use icicle in a Sentence

icicle

noun

• The icicles that had for years stretched all the way to the ground disappeared.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2019
• The icicle lights of the past have received an upgrade through this Toodour set.
  — Carly Totten, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Sep. 2021
• This set of six polished brass icicles will add a cool touch to your tree.
  — Addie Morton, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Nov. 2023
• Potts paired hers with a pair of lucite heels as clear as an icicle.
  — Vogue, 7 Jan. 2024
• A small bar sits to the left, icicle-style Christmas lights dangle from the awnings, and a Predators flag hangs in the back of the room.
  — Kelly O'Sullivan, Country Living, 16 June 2017
• Some birds clung to the branches, or the icicle itself, reaching out to drink.
  — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 4 Apr. 2021
• Add some icicle string lights to your roofline and bring Frosty the Snowman weather home.
  — Lesley Kennedy, CNN Underscored, 1 Dec. 2020
• The falls were quite beautiful with massive icicles frozen to the rocks.
  — Kevin Ambrose, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2018
• In the winter, the rivers are frozen and the giant trees glisten with dagger-like icicles.
  — Luke Abrahams, Travel + Leisure, 3 June 2024
• In one shot, Crew gets to hold a giant icicle that's bigger than him.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 13 Mar. 2023
• The 3-pound trigger breaks like a slim icicle and the recoil comes straight back, solid but not sharp.
  — Ron Spomer, Outdoor Life, 2 Mar. 2020
• Chanel There was an icicle-like tinkling on the soundtrack.
  — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2019
• There were icicles three or four feet hanging from the studio.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 22 Apr. 2023
• In the winters, their bare branches were covered in snow and icicles.
  — Naz Riahi, Longreads, 19 Mar. 2020
• The heartless old thing was killed when someone thrust an icicle through her heart.
  — Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 23 Feb. 2020
• The outlook at the end is dark, but soon enough Spring will come, and then maybe the threatening icicles will thaw and the buds of hope will push through.
  — Sarah Begley, Time, 11 Jan. 2018
• Ethan, who will turn 2 in November, can hang on the rope swing or the icicles with no trouble, Spine said.
  — Darcy Costello, The Courier-Journal, 21 Aug. 2017
• But this is a slasher movie, so of course Helena runs afoul of the killer, who takes her out with a handy icicle.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 Sep. 2019
• There’s a white tree with white lights, and snowflake and ornament icicles hanging above the window that faces the street.
  — Cody Boteler, baltimoresun.com, 2 Dec. 2019
• Voigt used that hole to string an electrical cord with a red light to show off the creature’s icicle teeth and blood-red maw.
  — cleveland, 22 Feb. 2021
• But this is not ye olde red and green tartan of Christmas in the lodge and icicles in the windows; this is tartan reimagined.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 13 June 2017
• Drone footage showed the Colosseum frosted by snow, and icicle trees lining the Tiber.
  — Laignee Barron, Time, 28 Feb. 2018
• Moved now and then to its snow room, with icicles on ceiling and drifts at my ankles, followed by dips in the thermal pool.
  — David Jefferys, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Jan. 2018
• Perhaps in the next tweak Prince Hans could run into Anna's icicle —10 times.
  — Deborah Wilker, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Dec. 2019
• Yet the effect is of the gentle quiet of snowfall, rather than the lethal frigidity of an icicle.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Feb. 2022
• Perhaps in the next tweak Prince Hans could run into Anna's icicle --10 times.
  — Deborah Wilker, Billboard, 9 Dec. 2019
• With temperatures in the teens, icicles could be seen forming on the power lines in front of the building.
  — CBS News, 2 Jan. 2018
• An easy way to add warmth to your space if your floors are tile or hardwood, is with a plush area rug to keep your toes from feeling like icicles.
  — Toni Sutton, Peoplemag, 23 Dec. 2023
• Jagged ice shoots out of the wings and the stage floor like an existential threat, and icicles hang from just about everything.
  — Jessica Gelt, latimes.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• Schools across the city had water bubbling out of pipes, warped floors, icicles hanging from the outside of buildings.
  — CBS News, 10 Jan. 2018

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024