Example sentences for: snowy

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

  • A few examples follow: dipper duck for the pied-billed grebe; jakes for young male turkeys (their elders are toms); loopwood or witch hobble for the hobblebush ( Viburnum alnifolium ) because the stems bend over and grow roots at the tips creating a loop that can abruptly trip a hiker in snowy woods; pippin , not for the apple, but for the tangy, red berry of wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens); pugger for ferret; quong-queedle for the bobolink; rain crow for the cuckoo, often heard before rain; scoke (or skoke ) for pokeweed ( Phytolacca americana ) of Massachusett Indian origin; skipper for a young deer; and finally an imaginative one, whippoorwill shoes for the lady's slipper orchid (Cypripedium acaule) .

  • The intervening snowy marvels are in cotton--crisp and vigorous, or frothy and delicate--followed by the modern silky columns that cling, fall, or drape in unexpected ways.

  • Streams tumbling down from the snowy peaks of the Rockies form ...

  • If there was any doubt that sugar was king in those days, the Treaty of Paris (1763) dispelled it: France elected to take back her little West Indian islands and leave the “few snowy acres” of Canada to the British.

  • Franklin, a director of marvelous thrillers such as One False Move (1991) and Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), and of the intricate HBO miniseries Laurel Avenue (1993), must have taken on this project to prove that an African-American filmmaker can bring a fresh perspective to the white-bread tale of mothers and daughters in snowy New England.


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