Example sentences for: snowy

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

  • But, as in Washington, on snowy days like this, you take what you can get.

  • The climate correspondingly varies from the snowy northern tip of Hokkaido, which offers excellent skiing, to the subtropical region of southern Kyushu and Okinawa, with its popular coral reefs.

  • , niveous/ snowy, lutaceous/muddy ), or in connotation ( maternal/motherly ). [This matter is discussed at some length in the Introduction to my Oxford Thesaurus .]

  • 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) .

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


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