Example sentences for: wintry

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

  • Compare the eeriest passages of The Tin Drum with Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's descriptions of the wintry death marches by means of which the Nazis killed off most of the remainder of their concentration-camp prisoners at the end of the war--exercises in pure surrealism, with skeletons moving slowly through a well-fed German countryside--and suddenly even Grass' fertile imagination seems impoverished.

  • Many of these wintry items are imported from the north of Portugal.

  • In the end, Schickel seems happiest simply basking in the star's aura, preferring the company of Eastwood "in the fading light of certain wintry afternoons" to trudging around and interviewing anyone with a different version of events or a contrasting point of view.

  • Leaving his harried wife (Catherine Keener) and infant daughter in wintry Pennsylvania, the detective travels from Cleveland to North Carolina to the subterranean S/M parlors of Los Angeles to a production office in the meat market of New York City.

  • In the shoes vibrates the silent call of the earth, its quiet gift of the ripening grain and its unexplained self-refusal in the fallow desolation of the wintry field."


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