icicle
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In the lounge, where Pike and his roommate host dinner parties, icicle lights hang from the ceiling and cases of Coca-Cola are stored in a corner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
Drops will continue to run down the icicle, freezing at the end, to give the icicle its distinctive shape.
From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2025
The movie can’t convey her interiority or her eccentricity to the degree that the novel’s first-person chronicle did; here, the recurring significance of a falling icicle, while suggestive, never entirely registers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2023
Ice is rigid and brittle — it would be astonishing to bend an icicle around a softball and have it spring back to its original straight shape.
From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2021
He might offer you an icicle treat or ask your opinion on whether a mid-late-morning nap is preferable to a late-mid-afternoon nap.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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The persistent plunk, plunk, plunk of icicles dripping into an aluminum gutter — a sound that is less birdsong than plumbing.
From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2026
Look out for more icicles like this over the next few days as there will be lots of wintry sunshine and the temperatures will remain close to freezing.
From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2025
So they began offering a slightly tweaked version of their own Reid-inspired cake called the “Andy Reidcicle Cake,” where his mustache looks as if it is icicles.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 4, 2024
Blue and white light icicles drip from one garage, while a string of ornaments hangs from another.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2023
All around the little house, in the Big Woods, there were little sounds of falling snow, and from the eaves there was the drip, drip of the melting icicles.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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