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How to use snowman in a sentence

21 example sentences · noun

Snowman means a humanoid figure made with large snowballs stacked on each other. Human traits like a face and arms may be fashioned with sticks (arms), a carrot (nose), and stones or coal (eyes, mouth). Example: “When the weather is warm, the snowman will disappear; he will melt.”

Examples of snowman by meaning

nounA score of eight, especially within one inning (in baseball) or on one hole (in golf, where it is also known as...

  • "Then they dropped a snowman (8) on us and did it pretty quick," Narron said.2005 June 26, Dayton Daily News, page 44
  • For me, another blow-up score of a snowman, 8, seems about right on this hole.2018, Andre Huu, The Round of Your Life: A Book on Golf and Life, Archway Publishing, →ISBN

More sentences with snowman

  • When the weather is warm, the snowman will disappear; he will melt.From the entry melt
  • To break the tedium, they built snowmen and snowwomen, and snowkids.2012, George Groves Jr, Eden... Closed. From the entry snowwoman
  • Dragon liked his new smaller snowman but it was still not quite right.2005, Sonia Sander, Dragon's Snowy Day, page 8. From the entry snowdragon
  • Instead of making a snowman or a snowlady, let’s make a snowcat,” I said.1998, Ann M. Martin, “1. It’s Snowing!”, in Karen’s Snow Princess (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #94), Scholastic, →ISBN. From the entry snowcat
  • Katy rolled snowballs and tried to make a snowcat instead of a snowman.1991, Dandi Daley Mackall, An Ali Cat Christmas, Standard Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry snowcat
  • Little boy, house, Christmas trees, and snowman riding a snowhorse are depicted.1991, Clara Johnson Scroggins, Hallmark Keepsake Ornaments: A Collector’s Guide, Hallmark Cards, →ISBN, page 102. From the entry snowhorse
  • Time and tide melt the snowman and all that.”2015, Lucy A. Snyder, While the Black Stars Burn, Raw Dog Screaming Press. From the entry pedantics
  • So Dragon turned the snowman into a snowdragon.2005, Sonia Sander, Dragon's Snowy Day, page 8. From the entry snowdragon
  • He’d helped them build a snowman this winter.2002, Doranna Durgin, Changespell Legacy (The Changespell Saga, Book III), Blue Hound Visions, published 2013, →ISBN. From the entry snowhorse
  • If we are especially creative, we will make a snowman and a snowlady, along with a snowchild or two.1998, Carol Goodman Heizer, edited by Elaine Thomas, And Another Thing ... about Living, Loving, and Learning, Alpha Publishing, →ISBN…. From the entry snowchild
  • Would that make them “snowers?” or “snowmen?”1986, Jane Louise Curry, The Lotus Cup, Atheneum, →ISBN, page 43. From the entry snower
  • He zooms his electric chair around the raggedy old snowman, tossing Velcroed stars and bells at it, asking, "Snowman go zoom zoom?"2012, Sharon M. Draper, Out of My Mind, →ISBN, page 36. From the entry electric chair
  • Reagan quickly put the snow to good use, making a snowman in 45 minutes and even a snowdog complete with leash and sunglasses.2004 December 29, Jason Ryan, “Let it snow”, in The Island Packet. From the entry snowdog
  • I focused over her shoulder to where Tara was clumsily rolling a chunk of snow back and forth—to build a snowman, I guessed.1998, Kai Maristed, Belong to Me: Stories, Random House, →ISBN, page 79. From the entry snowchild
  • The carrot-nosed snowman shouted Merry Christmas! and zoomed off into the hills, but not before Ozzie got his picture for our cover.1966 December, Boys' Life, volume liv, page 3. From the entry carrot-nosed
  • A liquid meringue flooded from the seam where the dome met the biscuit, so that each teacake transformed into a melted snowman wearing a chocolate bowler hat.2024 March 28, Olivia Ford, Mrs Quinn’s Rise to Fame: Meet the most unexpected heroine of 2024, Random House, →ISBN. From the entry teacake
  • For our snowman, if it is a perfect snowman it has the value of 1 and if it is a blob it has a value of 0.2013, Ayub V. O. Ofulla, “Chapter One: Chaos-Order Relationships and the Ancient Concepts of Continuous Creations”, in The Secrets of…. From the entry snowmanness
  • They rolled up a portly daddy snowman and a smiling snowmom, then made eleven snowkids, from a nine-foot basketball player down to a snowbaby only six inches tall.2011, Janette Oke, Davis Bunn, Another Homecoming. From the entry snowkid
  • Jeremy Fisher, 13, spent a good part of the afternoon building four snowmen and a snowdog outside his home on Main Street in the Broad Brook section of East Windsor.1995 November 30, Mary K. Feeney, “Few Problems In State As 1st Snowstorm Hits”, in Hartford Courant. From the entry snowdog

Meaning of snowman

  1. noun A humanoid figure made with large snowballs stacked on each other. Human traits like a face and arms may be fashioned with sticks (arms), a carrot (nose), and stones or coal (eyes, mouth).
  2. noun A score of eight, especially within one inning (in baseball) or on one hole (in golf, where it is also known as dogballs).
  3. noun A playing card with the rank of eight.

Full definition of snowman

Questions about snowman in a sentence

How do you use snowman in a sentence?
Snowman is used as a noun. For example: “When the weather is warm, the snowman will disappear; he will melt.”
What is a short sentence with snowman?
“Would that make them “snowers?” or “snowmen?””
What does snowman mean?
Snowman means a humanoid figure made with large snowballs stacked on each other. Human traits like a face and arms may be fashioned with sticks (arms), a carrot (nose), and stones or coal (eyes, mouth).

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Adapted from Wiktionary: snowman (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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