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Leon Trotsky was fatally attacked in his home by a Spanish communist wielding an ice pick.—Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 20 Aug. 2025 Actually, he's got half the brain of a motorcycling, rock-n-roll loving rebel named Eddie (Meat Loaf), who briefly escapes from the deep freeze where he'd been stored and causes a bit of havoc, before Frank-N-Furter kills him with an ice pick.—ArsTechnica, 16 Aug. 2025 The phone had been ripped off the wall, there was blood everywhere, pictures were on the floor and an awl, a leatherworking tool shaped like an ice pick, was found in the kitchen.—Kirsten Fiscus, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025 Adventure intel: Trek through labyrinthine ice tunnels, strap on crampons, and use an ice pick to climb a sheer cliff face, or abseil down a 100-meter cliff surrounded by an incandescent blue amphitheater of ice.—Chloe Berge, Outside Online, 17 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for ice pick
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