Ichabod
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The Post likened him to Ichabod Crane, the fictional schoolmaster in the Washington Irving short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025
The school's other statues are mostly modern art, except of a recently installed statue of Ichabod Washburn, an early benefactor and namesake of the school.
From Fox News • Aug. 31, 2020
The school’s other statues are mostly modern art, except of a recently installed statue of Ichabod Washburn, an early benefactor and namesake of the school.
From Washington Times • Aug. 27, 2020
But beyond Bo, the brooding atmosphere and the lanky priest remind me of everything from the mysterious sins of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Reverend Mr. Hooper in “The Minister’s Black Veil” to Washington Irving’s superstitious Ichabod Crane.
From Washington Post • May 10, 2017
Ob is one of those Ichabod Crane types in looks.
From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant
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