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) .

  • Throughout Japan, children living in snowy areas look forward each year to the Kamakura Festival, when they build igloo-type snow houses.

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

  • 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.

  • It is surrounded by yurts, grazing sheep, and snowy peaks, capped by Mt.


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