Examples of “Ichabod” in a Sentence

interjection Used to express sorrow that something has lost its former glory or standards.

• Ichabod, felt Lord Emsworth, and was still in a disturbed state of mind, though gradually becoming soothed by listening to that sweetest of all music, the sound of the Empress restoring her tissues. — P. G. Wodehouse, Pigs Have Wings (1952)
• Except for the library, the eastern wing, from the Tower of Flints onwards, was now but a procession of forgotten and desolate relics, an Ichabod of masonry that filed silently along an avenue of dreary pine whose needles hid the sky. — Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan (1946)
• Ichabod! The old theater, once grand, now sits boarded up.