How to Use snowdrift in a Sentence

snowdrift

noun

• The car was almost buried in a snowdrift.
• Like the train in Christie’s novel which gets stalled in a snowdrift, this is a project that could easily go off the rails.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 29 Aug. 2019
• The road had one to five foot snowdrifts this weekend, and temperatures overnight were in the 20s.
  — Carina Julig, The Denver Post, 24 June 2019
• The road had up to five-foot snowdrifts this weekend, and temperatures overnight were in the 20s.
  — Carina Julig, The Denver Post, 25 June 2019
• Roughly 650 feet from the beach, a large white shape moves in the shadows between the post office and a snowdrift as high as a house.
  — Eva Holland, Smithsonian, 16 May 2018
• The ice and snow didn’t help, putting him on his back frequently, and his shouts were muffled by the snowdrifts and the pane of my window.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 11 May 2018
• The blizzard of 1873 left snowdrifts a dozen feet high on some Indiana farms.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
• Winds of more than 45 mph created snowdrifts as tall as 10 feet.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2020
• Because the main road through town tends to fill in with tall, impassable snowdrifts, the windswept beach is also a route that the village kids take to and from school.
  — Eva Holland, Smithsonian, 16 May 2018
• Heavier rains, bigger tornados, deeper snowdrifts and then in some places, no doubt, worse droughts and fires and all the rest.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks.
  — The Courier-Journal, 5 Nov. 2022
• On Sunday, the bear attempted to dig itself out of the hole, only to become wedged between the snowdrifts.
  — Isabella Rosario, Outside Online, 8 Feb. 2023
• The sun was setting, and Casey Ryan was exhausted after trying to dig his pickup truck out of a snowdrift.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
• In another scene, a group of doormen push white snowdrifts across the stage, then raise their shovels in the air to simulate the shape of Central Park’s Bow Bridge.
  — Ingrid Abramovitch, ELLE Decor, 7 June 2023
• Rain then morphed into macadamia-nut-sized hail that pelted the stadium, leaving what looked like foot-high snowdrifts on the floor of each dugout.
  — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2023
• On December 28, Scott’s body was found by a volunteer search party, buried in a snowdrift.
  — Eric Ogden, Marie Claire, 10 June 2019
• Like other homeowners in the towns near Lake Tahoe, Mr. Culp was racing to remove massive snowdrifts from his roof.
  — Eliza Fawcett, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
• Sprinkled with powdered sugar, these fudgy chocolate cookies look like they got caught in a snowdrift.
  — April Franzino, Woman's Day, 15 Dec. 2022
• Patches of snow are frequent, with the longest snowfield about 200 feet, with snowdrifts in spots as high as 5 feet, that hikers are detouring around.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 17 July 2019
• One opponent’s gym was so small a guy driving for a layup stumbled and fell through an outside door behind the basket into a snowdrift.
  — Bob Hill, The Courier-Journal, 7 Mar. 2022
• The narrative arc of the sisters’ journey north is buried in whole snowdrifts of backstory about the past colonial sins of Anna and Elsa’s frosty kingdom.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 Nov. 2019
• Water penetrated deep into the soil of Western forests, and mammoth snowdrifts stacked up across the Sierra Nevadas.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2017
• Hours later, Syta got a frantic call from her mother after she’d been trapped in a snowdrift for several hours.
  — Brianna Sacks and Emily Wax-Thibodeaux, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Dec. 2022
• Use safeguards and properly ventilate when using heat from a fireplace, space heater or wood stove and make sure gas furnaces are not blocked by a snowdrift.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 26 Oct. 2021
• The Associated Press reported at the time that rescue workers dug through snowdrifts in the village of Skeklab for two days only to find 18 frozen bodies.
  — Fox News, 7 Feb. 2020
• Moscow earlier this month saw what has been described as the strongest snowfall on record when more than a month's average of snow fell on the city, turning streets and yards into snowdrifts.
  — Bloomberg.com, 26 Feb. 2018
• The Abruzzo region has been hit by severe winter weather in recent weeks, leading to snowdrifts 16-feet deep, heightening the risk of avalanches.
  — Sebastian Modak, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Jan. 2017
• The poems are banked impressions, like snowdrifts after a blizzard, or deposits left by a receding tide.
  — Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
• The storm dropped visibility to near zero and resulted in power outages and snowdrifts as high as 8 feet.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 1 May 2017
• Winter snowdrifts accumulate into massive glacier-looking faces of compact snow right to the water's edge, running on for miles or as far as our eyes could see.
  — Bjorn Olson, Alaska Dispatch News, 30 July 2017

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024