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Example sentences for "icicle"

Lexicographically close words:
ichthyolites; ichthyological; ichthyology; ichthyosauri; ici; icicles; icily; iciness; icing; icings
  1. To get out of the caves we had to retrace our steps over the ice-covered boulders and through the Icicle Cave to the second entrance.

  2. There are two entrances to the caves--one near what is known as the Bone Cave, the other close by the Icicle Cave.

  3. In the Icicle Cave we met Miss Hastie and Hannes, who had come over from Gilsbakki because the day was so fine and summer-like--it was one of the few days that really felt summery.

  4. Who ever heard of an icicle glowing with emotion?

  5. Yesterday I felt as if I had dieted upon diamonds and were sparkling with rainbow colors like an icicle in the sun.

  6. For that pip of a moment I was just an exquisite icicle of solitude--as if I had never been born.

  7. Sister Roberga, oblige me by speaking when you are spoken to," said Mother Ada, in her icicle manner.

  8. So proud and stuck-up and like an icicle as she always is!

  9. I tried Mother Gaillarde next, since I had only found an icicle clad in Mother Ada's habit.

  10. Are you such an icicle that you translate 'love' by 'like'?

  11. Unfortunately, whether I am an icicle or not no longer matters," I answered.

  12. On the rock floor there was in these caves what looked exactly like a broken column in an old Grecian temple, whilst high above, depending from the roof, the point of a huge icicle could be dimly seen.

  13. And even as we gazed we could hear the process going on, for presently with a tiny splash a drop of water would fall from the far-off icicle on to the column below.

  14. As he stepped over a big icicle he put his foot down on a slippery snowball some little animal chap had left on the path, and, all of a sudden, bango!

  15. An icicle will make the best kind of an arrow!

  16. And I'll add, to the icicle that incloses her heart.

  17. The icicle that holds your heart has chilled my love till now, my sweet," the mask answered.

  18. Eye ain't been laid on him till he come out of that snow-squall, walkin' like an icicle and hootin' like a barn owl.

  19. If the water is clear, the icicle remains clear and sparkles in the sun; but if the water is muddy, the icicle looks dirty and its beauty is spoiled.

  20. You may have seen in the winter-time an icicle forming under the eaves of a house.

  21. But winter is a stubborn foe, and sometimes his snow and icicle battalions will not give way a foot.

  22. Hardly has the sunniest icicle begun to drop tears, when a song sparrow flits to the top of a bush, clears his throat with sharp chirps and shouts as loud as he can: "Hip!

  23. Picture: Wild Water looks sideways at me, and I look like a particularly indignant icicle and summon the waiter.

  24. A draught that possessed all the rigidity of an icicle was boring into the front of his shoulders as he lay on his side facing the wall.

  25. Let him pause then, and think what he was doing, or, better still, give up this folly, and not tie an icicle like her to an honest and warm heart like his.

  26. It's the drip of that great icicle that has frozen up as it fell, and if it were not there you'd see a place big enough for a bear to get in.

  27. It was a frosty kind of brightness, too, like that of an icicle in the moonlight.

  28. The trees and shrubs, however, were now leafless, and their twigs were enveloped in the light snow, which thus made a kind of wintry foliage, with here and there a pendent icicle for the fruit.

  29. Botts was a brave man, but he shuddered and shivered as if an icicle had been thrust down his back.

  30. Each of these young ladies had a devoted lover, who, as Tom Seddon had remarked, would have gone on a pilgrimage to the North Pole in search of an icicle in obedience to her wishes.

  31. The Snow Man's wife had slipped an icicle through the latch.

  32. When she came to the door with the icicle through the latch, she knew at once that the children were in that room, so she drew out the icicle and entered.

  33. When the warm sun came out from behind the clouds, down would go the little icicle to the ground, shattered and sparkling like a thousand diamonds.

  34. Sometimes an icicle would swing on the same branch with me.

  35. Little Lady Icicle is singing in the north-land, And bringing from the north-land a music wild and low; And the fairies watch and listen Where her silver slippers glisten, As little Lady Icicle goes singing through the snow.

  36. The branches of the trees were piled with white softness and the tiny pines and cedars, which were only just big enough to stick their heads above the deep snow, wore crowns and garlands and icicle diamonds.

  37. Then I took my icicle and began fumbling around the abdomen portion of Pa's remains, and my chum took a rough piece of ice and began to saw his leg off, while the other boy took hold of the leg and said he would catch it when it dropped off.

  38. Then I drew the icicle across him again, and I said, 'I don't know about this, doctor.

  39. It's only an icicle dropping from the eaves," said the old lady, smiling.

  40. At the conclusion of their race Paul had got a color in his cheeks, and felt somewhat less like an icicle than before.

  41. I bet she's an icicle when Morry's blazing.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "icicle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.