[
UK
/wˈɪntətˌaɪm/
]
[ US /ˈwɪntɝˌtaɪm/ ]
[ US /ˈwɪntɝˌtaɪm/ ]
NOUN
- the coldest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox
How To Use wintertime In A Sentence
- Typically, it comes in the wintertime, packing a lot of snow.
- I caught just a quick glimpse of a whale yesterday, on its annual wintertime northward migration, and hope to have a bit more to say about this tomorrow.
- Outside my door was a green leafed bush, which apparently had not gone bald in the wintertime.
- The company, which sells its own brews as well as massproduced beers, places greater emphasis during the hot months on light beers than, say, the heavier ambers, bocks and porters, which are big in the wintertime.
- He advises gardeners to place their butterfly boxes about four feet above ground and making sure they have a southern exposure in the wintertime.
- Some people swear they gain more weight in the wintertime.
- Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come. Robert H. Schuller
- Unlike on most dairy farms, all the cows calve at the same time of year, and the cows are not milked in wintertime.
- Melanie is so right, these colours are amazing to see in the wintertime.
- Balgriffin was once more wrapped in its wintertime odour of sweetly burning turf, and the clothes on the line never dried. DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN