How to Use cold snap in a Sentence

cold snap

noun
  • This cold snap looks to be short-lived.
    — Ahmad Bajjey, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2026
  • In short, this is not just a quick cold snap.
    — Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2026
  • This is going to be more than a cold snap.
    — Valerie Fraser Luesse, Southern Living, 22 Jan. 2026
  • But the Arctic cold snap blew in.
    — Deborah Berkman, New York Daily News, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Also, your wedding will go on rain or shine, cold snap, or heat wave.
    — Sophia Panych, Allure, 28 Oct. 2024
  • This could be all right for fruit, so long as another cold snap doesn’t kill the buds.
    — Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Ditto for threats for cutting off the heat during a cold snap.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 17 July 2024
  • The last cold snap has frozen the ice to more than average thickness.
    — Kay Johnson, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Experts say the polar vortex will play a role in next week's cold snap.
    — Doyle Rice, USA Today, 5 Apr. 2025
  • There may be another cold snap on the horizon.
    — Kelli Arseneau, jsonline.com, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Late spring in New England has been known to throw us a cold snap or two.
    — Heather Zidack, Hartford Courant, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Pops of color are proof that the garden is awakening from a long cold snap.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The extreme cold snap across our nation this week has most of us nesting indoors.
    — Rita Nader Heikenfeld, The Enquirer, 26 Jan. 2024
  • More news to know now The South’s cold snap won’t last forever.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Challenge yourself to leave home and do something fun during this cold snap.
    — Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 17 Jan. 2025
  • This will help protect them from a later cold snap damaging the fresh, new growth.
    — Wayne Hobbs, Florida Times-Union, 7 Mar. 2026
  • When a cold snap occurs, the plants are more vulnerable.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 24 Feb. 2026
  • As for the cherry trees, their buds are not yet developed enough that a cold snap would threaten them.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The buds that did emerge were, like the ones in the Northeast, killed by a cold snap in the early spring.
    — Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2024
  • And a cold snap followed by melting temperatures can lead to ice jams in rivers and creeks.
    — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 5 Sep. 2024
  • The animal had crawled into a drain pipe during a cold snap and could not turn around to escape.
    — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Crepe myrtles bloom on new growth, and the best time to prune is while the tree is dormant, so new growth isn't killed by a late cold snap.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 8 Mar. 2026
  • The manatee likely entered the drain pipe during a cold snap.
    — Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The manatee likely entered the drain pipe during a cold snap.
    — Ryan Brennan april 9, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2026
  • After a brief fool’s spring, New York City plunged once again into a cold snap.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Potholes wreak havoc on rims and tires, and more may pop up as Indy emerges from its current cold snap.
    — Justin L. MacK, Axios, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Keep scrolling for more comfy boots from Walmart to carry you in style through the last cold snap of winter.
    — Miles Walls, People.com, 13 Oct. 2024
  • In 2017, an intense cold snap damaged nearly half the blooms.
    — Kevin Ambrose, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Past years have seen pipes freeze and residents lose water, but this year’s cold snap and heavy snow worsened the issue.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 9 Feb. 2026
  • This week’s cold snap has certainly reminded us that winter hasn’t given up the ghost just yet.
    — Newsroom Meteorologist, Houston Chronicle, 27 Jan. 2026

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'cold snap.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: