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snowdrift

[ UK /snˈə‍ʊdɹɪft/ ]
NOUN
  1. a mass of snow heaped up by the wind

How To Use snowdrift In A Sentence

  • When we arrived in Chicago, there were 6ft-high snowdrifts and the wind was howling.
  • He told me of one such time, when he'd been sent to the store with the money put in his mitten, on returning he'd stopped out front and the change, a nickel, somehow slipped out into a snowdrift.
  • Some of them stumbled back the way they had come, dragging frozen tanks and trucks out of ice and snowdrifts.
  • Did we see a BBC reporter up to their gumboots in a snowdrift. Open Thread
  • Adam had always shown much more proclivity for curling up in his father's lap near a warm fire and listening to a good story than for tromping through snowdrifts.
  • To school plodding stubbornly through the snowdrifts in short trousers with chapped knees to sit in a draughty classroom in abject fear of a teacher who had recently traversed Europe inside a tank turret and who took no prisoners with his booming voice, the result of his deafness. Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
  • The cold winter air blew in their hair and some snow from the snowdrifts blew up and swirled around them all.
  • I know from experience that avalanches occur swiftly and cruelly, and our relief when the ground eventually levelled out soon dissipated in a struggle through waist deep snowdrifts.
  • The ugliness stands out this morning, the snowdrifts soiled by what the wind has picked up from the fields.
  • I come back with an armful of dead birch to find Tony digging films out of a snowdrift near the tent.
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