ice needles

How to use ice needles in a sentence

• To-night it was darned across with ice needles, and the silver 'cat-ice' round the edge crackled under Cuni's paws.

  Lives of the Fur Folk | M. D. Haviland

• While she was still thinking, the first ice-needles of the blizzard came peppering the windows.

  A Mountain Woman and Others | (AKA Elia Wilkinson) Elia W. Peattie

• The moisture of the air forms long ice needles on the inside of the roof.

  The Central Eskimo | Franz Boas

• It was as if ice needles pricked his skin through his beautiful thick fur, but he never faltered and never once cried.

  Lords of the Housetops | Various

• And the February chill of the river cut into him like a million ice-needles.

  Lad: A Dog | Albert Payson Terhune