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
Christmas lights were strung across cactus plants, and icicle lights dangled from the carport ceiling.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 24, 2022
“It sounds like large water drops falling from a melting icicle and hitting a puddle. Is the poor old thing melting, too?”
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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
Check out the three-foot icicles dripping from the eaves and keep an eye out for the big boulder by the fire station on the right.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2026
Antony Newby was visiting the area near Winnats Pass on Saturday when he spotted a tree shrouded in icicles.
From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2025
Blades of grass hardened into icicles as snow fell and temperatures dropped in Houston, Texas.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 17, 2024
Her wrists were thin as icicles, her eyes as clear as the moons and as large, steady and white.
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
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