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Examples of ice pick in a Sentence
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She was stabbed with an ice pick, with fatal wounds to her heart and lungs, which were determined to be the cause of death.
—Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 21 May 2024
The light also needed to be staked into the ground, which requires a long pointed tool (such as a screwdriver or an ice pick) and a mallet.
—Alida Nugent, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Feb. 2024
The department advised wearing a lifejacket, carrying ice picks and equipment to test ice thickness.
—Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 12 Jan. 2024
From Se7en to Zodiac to Netflix series Mindhunter, his work is interested in unpacking the darkest parts of our humanity with the cold precision of an ice pick.
—EW.com, 10 Nov. 2023
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—Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Feb. 2024
Trying to summarize a span of time like the 2010s, built by financial crisis, capped by pandemic and split nearly down the middle, at least in the American imagination, by the ice pick of the Trump victory, seems like a task best set aside for at least a few more years.
—Sam Dean, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
Prosecutors said MacDonald used a knife and an ice pick to kill them before stabbing himself with a scalpel.
—baltimoresun.com, 10 Mar. 2021
Score a line across the top of the slab with your saw, knife, or ice pick.
—Hugh Garvey, Sunset Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1851, in the meaning defined above
Dictionary Entries Near ice pick
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“Ice pick.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice%20pick. Accessed 18 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
ice pick
noun
: a hand tool ending in a spike for chipping ice
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