icicle
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The next morning, with a quick flip upside down, Epperson had a sweet icicle with a built-in handle, which he dubbed the Epsicle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 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
The drops fell very slowly, as they fall from an icicle after the sun has gone.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
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
A sign of the cold: "Some interesting icicles," says Craig Lambie near Boat of Garten.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2024
Blades of grass hardened into icicles as snow fell and temperatures dropped in Houston, Texas.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 17, 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
What kind of icicles do you have where you live?
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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