How to Use snow line in a Sentence

snow line

noun
  • This is where the rain/snow line will set up.
    Jacob Wycoff, CBS News, 30 Nov. 2025
  • The rain/snow line will be well above New York City.
    Matthew Villafane, CBS News, 30 Nov. 2025
  • The key to where the rain-snow line sets up is the track of the storm, D’Aleo said.
    Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Both are now inside the snow line, but probably formed farther out.
    Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2019
  • Watching the rain/snow line jog east and west, and up and down in elevation has been painful.
    John Hopewell, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2018
  • The snow line will be high enough in the atmosphere to keep most of the wintry weather out of the city.
    Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Feb. 2023
  • The rain/snow line will shift further northwest, to around I-78 or so.
    Matthew Villafane, CBS News, 30 Nov. 2025
  • Such a track allows the easterly and southerly flow to push the rain-snow line well west of the city.
    Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2020
  • If the precipitation is light, the air might warm enough to push the rain-snow line north and west.
    Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2018
  • However, the snow line crept down toward the valley overnight.
    Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Oct. 2022
  • This is still an evolving storm so the rain-snow line placement and how long the snow lasts is to be determined.
    Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The forecast was this storm was very challenging as the rain-snow line was a moving target.
    Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2020
  • During the afternoon, the rain-snow line is likely to push northwest.
    Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2020
  • Current radar shows the rain-snow line entering northwest Ohio.
    Emily Bamforth, cleveland, 11 Nov. 2019
  • The snow line existed in the disk at a distance from the star where its heat couldn't maintain liquid water.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Where the rain/snow line sets up will determine who sees accumulating snow and who doesn't.
    Matthew Villafane, CBS News, 30 Nov. 2025
  • Fresh snow lined the mountaintops and the rising sun sparkled through the low underbrush lining the trail.
    Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Nov. 2019
  • Some evergreens may be green below the snow line, with the foliage above completely killed.
    Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • For some of us, a heavy snow load will have helped—the snow actually protected plants beneath the snow line.
    Janet Carson, Arkansas Online, 1 Mar. 2021
  • That rain/snow line needs to drop into Garrett County for the folks at Wisp.
    Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2023
  • The rain-snow line is evident on the map of temperatures below.
    Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2020
  • The snow line seems to be at an elevation of roughly 7,000 feet.
    Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 May 2018
  • Finding those forms would establish that the grains originated in deep space—out beyond what is known as the snow line.
    Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 30 Sep. 2024
  • As of Tuesday morning, the snow line was down below the 3,000' mark.
    Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The rain-snow line shown on weather forecasters’ maps Wednesday is a slash from northeast to southwest.
    Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • The rain-snow line is a bit of a moving target, which makes the forecast especially challenging.
    Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2018
  • The rain-snow line is forecast to be 10,500 feet high in the Tahoe basin Tuesday.
    Anthony Edwards, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Ice, which could be found beyond the snow line of the planetary disk where solid water ice can form, was also included in the mix.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Small groups that summered in the Clearwater Mountains are moving down as the snow line lowers.
    John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Sep. 2020
  • As the storm is still four days away, storm timing, precipitation amounts, and the position of the rain-snow line are all likely to evolve.
    Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2020

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