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How to use snowstorm in a sentence

15 example sentences · noun

Snowstorm means bad weather involving blowing winds and snow, or blowing winds and heavy snowfall amount. Example: “Sold-out stores can be a major problem around the time of a snowstorm.”

Examples of snowstorm by meaning

nounA snow globe.

  • As we made our way down, my eye was caught by a snowstorm—one of those little glass balls, with a baby cottage inside.1947, Dornford Yates, The Berry Scene, Ward, Lock & Co., 273

More sentences with snowstorm

  • Sold-out stores can be a major problem around the time of a snowstorm.From the entry sold-out
  • All I need to weather a snowstorm is hot coffee, a warm fire, a good book and a comfortable chair.From the entry chair
  • We were cooped in because of the snowstorm.From the entry coop in
  • As his aging hands became increasingly arthritic, he would often tell us that he could feel it in his bones when a snowstorm was coming.From the entry in one's bones
  • When I saw on the news that there would be no school tomorrow because of the snowstorm, I literally jumped for joy, and hit my head on the ceiling fan.From the entry literally
  • They ripped out the phone, took Sinatra outside and disappeared into a blustering snowstorm.1963 December 20, “There’s Nothing to Be Sorry For”, in Time. From the entry blustering
  • Snowstorms often knock the Government's Salt Lake radio range out of kilter.1941 March 10, “An Airliner Cracks Up in Pine Woods near Atlanta and Seven People Die”, in Henry R[obinson] Luce, editor, Life, volume 10…. From the entry out of kilter
  • The story of last winter's unprecedented snowstorms in Great Britain is slowly filtering out.1941 April, “Notes and News: Railwaymen and Snow”, in Railway Magazine, page 177. From the entry filter out
  • The snowstorm of Sunday, January 28, was the worst in living memory.1941 April, “Notes and News: Railwaymen and Snow”, in Railway Magazine, page 177. From the entry in living memory
  • Holed up in the White House over the weekend, with temperatures dropping and a major snowstorm on its way, Mr.2026 January 28, “Nervous Allies and Fox News: How Trump Realized He Had a Big Problem in Minneapolis”, in The New York Times, New York…. From the entry coverage
  • Snowstorms in the Tacheng city in the northwestern region of Xinjiang have brought lows of minus 25 degrees Celsius.2011 January 5, “Factbox: China winter weather latest developments”, in Sui-Lee Wee, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 13 Oct…. From the entry Tacheng
  • A weather bulletin from Environment Canada warned that much of southern Ontario will be hit Friday and Sunday by significant snowstorms.2008 December 17, “'Snow-mageddon' in Toronto?”, in CBC News. From the entry snowmageddon
  • On the high plateau, the mistral can unleash in winter the burle, a swirling, blinding snowstorm propelled almost horizontally.2002, John M. Merriman, The Stones of Balazuc: A French Village in Time, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 13. From the entry burle
  • Bennett has ducked out of funerals, bolted from hospital beds and defied snowstorms to get to the House chamber.1991 June 8, Richard Berke, “Sizzling 40-Year Streak Of Never Missing a Vote”, in New York Times, retrieved 26 Nov 2010. From the entry duck out

Meaning of snowstorm

  1. noun Bad weather involving blowing winds and snow, or blowing winds and heavy snowfall amount.
  2. noun A snow globe.

Full definition of snowstorm

Questions about snowstorm in a sentence

How do you use snowstorm in a sentence?
Snowstorm is used as a noun. For example: “Sold-out stores can be a major problem around the time of a snowstorm.”
What is a short sentence with snowstorm?
“We were cooped in because of the snowstorm.”
What does snowstorm mean?
Snowstorm means bad weather involving blowing winds and snow, or blowing winds and heavy snowfall amount.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: snowstorm (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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