How to Use snow-white in a Sentence

snow-white

adjective
  • On one side stood a dozen or so cages occupied by snow-white rats.
    Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Vince Mulcahy, who sports a snow-white mustache and a slate-gray hunting vest, grew up in the Alaskan wilderness.
    Idaho Statesman, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The two-mile loop takes between two to three hours to complete and provides expansive views of the rippling snow-white gypsum dunes.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The two-mile loop takes between two and three hours to complete and provides expansive views of the rippling snow-white gypsum dunes.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 7 Apr. 2026
  • My hero tenderly wrapped his snow-white daughter in a cravat; my heroine woke with a stab of fear, wondering where her stomach had gone.
    Eloisa James, PEOPLE, 12 May 2026
  • The only guards on duty today are hat-tipping doormen ushering guests into snow-white corridors lined with gold.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Mar. 2026
  • The nearly 20-acre island has a botanical garden home to more than 2,000 plant species and snow-white peacocks, among other dazzling residents.
    Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 31 Mar. 2026
  • From inlets covered in neon-green algae, snow-white egrets took flight over ships stacked with thousands of brightly colored containers—imagine a mash-up of Gauguin and Mondrian.
    John Bowe, Travel + Leisure, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Bone-in ham steak flops over the rim of its plate, and the table surface is erased when an entrée’s sidekicks — yeast-fragrant rolls the size of baseballs, a green salad practically obscured by a snow-white dollop of the house dressing — are dropped off.
    Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2026

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