SNOWDRIFT in a Sentence

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Example sentences for SNOWDRIFT, such as:

1. For a long time the quarry was full of snowdrifts and nothing could be done.
2. The purpose of this study is to clarify the relationship between snowdrift and wind flow.
3. Walking across the yard, passing a snowdrift by the lilac tree, he went into the cowhouse.

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 Meanings and Examples of SNOWDRIFT
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snowdrift
 n.  a mass of snow heaped up by the wind
Classic Sentence:
1  Walking across the yard, passing a snowdrift by the lilac tree, he went into the cowhouse.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 26
2  Sometimes the thermometer would fall to ten or twenty degrees below zero at night, and in the morning the streets would be piled with snowdrifts up to the first-floor windows.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
3  They would wrap up in all they owned, but they could not wrap up against exhaustion; and many a man gave out in these battles with the snowdrifts, and lay down and fell asleep.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
4  And when he got home perhaps he would have to trudge several blocks, and come staggering back through the snowdrifts with a bag of coal upon his shoulder.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
5  The prospect struck fear to the heart of Jurgis also, for he knew that Ona was not fit to face the cold and the snowdrifts this year.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
6  For a long time the quarry was full of snowdrifts and nothing could be done.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
Example Sentence:
1  The purpose of this study is to clarify the relationship between snowdrift and wind flow.