As we poke about the town, which spirals up out of the plain like the tip of a caramel ice cream cone, the first snowflakes drift down, foreshadowing an impending storm.

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Funnel clouds look like cone-shaped or thin rope-like protuberances which hang down from the cloud base, and often do not last very long.

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Suzie sat down and tentatively held out her ice-cream cone.

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One day Marty came down and saw his brother sitting in the first row behind the outfield, his scorecard curled into a cone, talking out loud.

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