How to output svg sprite to background image?

Question

css

Good afternoon. When laying out, I use the Gulp assembler and assemble the svg sprite using gulp-svgstore. If you insert svg from a sprite in this way

<svg class="article__icon">
  <use xlink:href="images/sprite.svg#icon-glasses"></use>
</svg>

Everything is working. But here to insert an image from a sprite as a background - nothing works. I came across this solution to the problem: What are the ways to connect an svg sprite to the background? but my sprite is going through

<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><symbol id="icon-arrow--green" viewBox="0 0 14 10">
<path d="M13 5H1M13 5L9.5 1.5M13 5L9.5 8.5" stroke="#25AF7C" stroke-width="1.7" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"/>
</symbol>...

How to replace symbol with view for above plugin? Or is there another solution?