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How to use snowfall in a sentence

17 example sentences · noun

Snowfall means an instance of falling of snow. Example: “There has been snowfall every day this week.”

Examples of snowfall by meaning

nounAn instance of falling of snow.

  • There has been snowfall every day this week.

nounThe amount of snow that falls on one occasion.

  • London recorded a snowfall of 10 centimetres last night.

More sentences with snowfall

  • The roofs up there are pitched heavier because of the snowfalls.From the entry pitched
  • Their plans to finish the garden that weekend hit a snag when an unseasonal snowfall dropped several inches on what should have become the pumpkin patch that day.From the entry hit a snag
  • The approach to Newcastle (Central) Station from the north after a heavy snowfall.1947 January and February, “A Winter's Day on the Tyneside”, in Railway Magazine, page 29, photo caption. From the entry relief
  • Increasingly, however, marine snowfall is being infiltrated by microplastics: fibers and fragments of polyamide, polyethylene and polyethylene terephthalate.2022 April 3, Sabrina Imbler, “In the Ocean, It’s Snowing Microplastics”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 05…. From the entry polyethylene
  • In a recent note, he pointed out that Munich, Geneva, Luxembourg, and Calgary had their first snowfall on Sunday, Oct. 28.2012 November 3, Robin Goodwin Blumenthal, “Season for Stocks: Let It Snow, Let It Snow?”, in Barron's, retrieved 13 Oct 2015. From the entry buy when it snows, sell when it goes
  • They had had an afternoon of blusterous tramontana, continually changing direction and force, and exploding the light snowfalls with mischievous gusts.1982, Lawrence Durrell, chapter 8, in Constance, New York: Viking, page 250. From the entry blusterous
  • County highway crews manned their trucks to salt down the roads, but the snowfall was predited to continue until tonight.1967 February 6, “Chicago Slapped Again: Snowstorm, Bitter Cold Hit Area”, in Warren Times-Mirror and Observer, volume 1, number 271…. From the entry salt down
  • The snowfall had changed again, the flakes larger now and less insistent; they had a buoyant and spumescent quality.1957, John Bell Clayton, The Strangers Were There: Selected Stories, Macmillan, page 79. From the entry spumescent
  • Heavy snowfalls are prevalent in winter on the higher sections.1947 September and October, “By Northern Pacific to Seattle”, in Railway Magazine, page 270. From the entry gangman
  • With a good blinding snowfall, or a pelting downpour of cats and dogs, I might have hoped for a respite.1901, Ellen Wood (Mrs. Henry Wood), Johnny Ludlow: sixth series, page 361. From the entry cats and dogs
  • Hsinchu County's Department of Personnel announced school closures for Hsin Kwang Elementary School in Jianshih Township today due to the snowfall there.2025 March 18, “Snow falls in highest mountains amid cold front”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Mar…. From the entry Jianshih
  • The Cairngorms national park has some of Britain’s harshest weather and the heaviest snowfall in Scotland, creating snowfields that stretch to the horizon.2017 February 18, Kari Herbert, The Guardian. From the entry lochan
  • The Ski Club of Great Britain is forecasting fluctuating and heavy snowfalls of the kind that could make for an unstable, potentially dangerous snowbase.2000 November 21, Oliver Burkeman, Kate Connolly, “When the snow falls”, in The Guardian. From the entry snowbase
  • Past president Arthur Watson also uses words, wonderful Scots words for snowfall and nightfall, 25 of them rendered in smoky black, each in its own frame.2019 November 20, Duncan Macmillan, “Art reviews: RSA Annual Exhibition 2019 - Mary Cameron: Life in Paint”, in The Scotsman. From the entry smoky black
  • Thousands of Pashmina goats may have perished in recent heavy snowfall around the nomadic areas of Changthang on the Sino-Indian frontier of the Ladakh region, officials said on Friday.2013 February 22, Ashok Pahalwan, “Pashmina goats perishing in heavy snow on Indian frontier”, in Paul Casciato, editor, Reuters, archived…. From the entry Changthang

Meaning of snowfall

  1. noun An instance of falling of snow.
  2. noun The amount of snow that falls on one occasion.

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Questions about snowfall in a sentence

How do you use snowfall in a sentence?
Snowfall is used as a noun. For example: “There has been snowfall every day this week.”
What is a short sentence with snowfall?
“There has been snowfall every day this week.”
What does snowfall mean?
Snowfall means an instance of falling of snow.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: snowfall (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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