Example sentences for: blizzard

How can you use “blizzard” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • has a visual energy all its own--a blizzard of boulders, the village blanketed with mauve ash, a bridge cracking apart and dumping its cargo of cars into a river" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). "The stupid thing gets the job done" (David Denby, New York ). Critics interpret the sudden outcropping of natural-disaster movies as nostalgia for the '70s and films such as The Poseidon Adventure and Jaws , "some of whose plot elements have been recycled here," says Denby.

  • True devotees talk shop at even more specialized groups, such as one on Northeastern weather (ne.weather), whose recent conversation topics included the great blizzard of 1978 and the freak snowstorm of May 1977.

  • But the front pages contain a built-in reminder not to spend the money just yet: The surplus stories are juxtaposed with reporting about how the East Coast's blizzard was such a surprise.

  • ) Yesterday, a "fast-developing storm hit almost the entire eastern seaboard, leaving cities, towns, farms and mountains from Georgia to Massachusetts blanketed with the heaviest snowfall since a blizzard four years ago," according to today's Washington Post . Chatterbox, who lives in D.C.--a place that's routinely paralyzed by snow flurries--isn't denying that the snowstorm was disruptive.

  • (A white family that happens through town ends up trapped in a blizzard and is eaten by buzzards come the spring thaw.)


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