How to Use snowball in a Sentence

snowball

1 of 2 noun
  • This snow is perfect for making snowballs.
  • There were no snowballs this time.
    — Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The snowball had simply grown too large to stop.
    — Steve Booren, Denver Post, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Leavitt pulled over and showed him how to make a snowball.
    — Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2026
  • But these little small pacts start to snowball.
    — Sarah Rodman, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2026
  • If the snowball method will work better for you, that’s fine.
    — Amy Wagner and Steve Sprovach, The Enquirer, 14 July 2022
  • The fees keep growing, and the snowball keeps rolling.
    — Gary Singer, Sun Sentinel, 28 May 2026
  • The idea is to start small and grow larger, like a snowball rolling down a hill.
    — David McMillin, CNBC, 30 Dec. 2025
  • This nucleus is made of ice and dust, which forms a dirty snowball.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 Apr. 2022
  • The snowball seemed to be rolling downhill and picking up speed.
    — Joe Kozlowski, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Because of this, the snowball of a pup would do best in the home as the only pup.
    — The Republic, The Arizona Republic, 18 Mar. 2022
  • That proved to be just the start of a rolling snowball of regulation.
    — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Some experts liken it to trying to spot a snowball in a snowstorm.
    — Dr. Megha Gupta, ABC News, 1 Oct. 2025
  • That number has grown over time, like a snowball racing down a mountain.
    — Don Yaeger, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • At least one cop was repeatedly hit by snowballs, the video shows.
    — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Comets are dirty cosmic snowballs that partially melt and form a tail as they near the sun.
    — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Two common debt payoff methods are the snowball method and the avalanche method.
    — Becca Stanek, The Week, 26 July 2023
  • This water is held (absorbed) in the air pockets of the snowball.
    — CBS News, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Two common methods for paying off debt are the debt avalanche method and the debt snowball method.
    — Becca Stanek, theweek, 5 Jan. 2024
  • With a team that is proving there's no business like snowball business.
    — Jori Parys, CBS News, 8 June 2026
  • From snowball cookies to whoopie pies the sweets are endless.
    — Raena Loper, Good Housekeeping, 10 Aug. 2022
  • One cop was repeatedly hit by snowballs, the video shows.
    — Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 24 Feb. 2026
  • There’s just not a snowball’s chance in hell that that’s anywhere near accurate.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Imagine all the sledding races, the snowball fights, the hot chocolate, the hygge.
    — Elizabeth G. Dunn, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2022
  • There’s even a caramel apple that looks like a snowball, topped with white chocolate and coconut.
    — From Contributors and Staff, Journal Sentinel, 1 Dec. 2022
  • By the end of the week, the experiment snowballs into an all-out war game.
    — Zita Ballinger Fletcher, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
  • Perhaps a game that gets really big and is built on blockchain may have a snowball impact.
    — Ellen M. Zavian, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
  • But others might have criminal ties and there can be a snowball effect.
    — al, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Two of the most popular methods for debt payoff are the debt snowball and the debt avalanche.
    — Rebecca Safier, USA Today, 14 May 2026
  • Let the snow consolidate for an hour or more, until it is set up hard enough to form snowballs.
    — Keith McCafferty, Field & Stream, 29 June 2023

snowball

2 of 2 verb
  • Problems snowball when early trouble signs are ignored.
  • What started as a small annual concert has snowballed into a full-fledged music festival.
  • Such a streak in years past might have snowballed.
    — Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Since then, things have snowballed.
    — Quispe López, Them., 17 Nov. 2025
  • It’s snowballed year after year, and there’s just no one like him.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 29 Nov. 2025
  • That energy on both ends of the court had snowballed.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Things only snowballed from there.
    — Kelsey Stewart, Glamour, 15 Nov. 2025
  • Once the wine was bottled, things snowballed rather quickly.
    — Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Here, the damage to science could snowball.
    — Kenneth M. Evans, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2025
  • While each deposit may seem small, this money can snowball over time and surprise you.
    — Liz Knueven, CNBC, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Sometimes that snowballs for a defense.
    — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Or will the default numbers snowball into an avalanche?
    — Cory Turner, NPR, 23 Dec. 2025
  • But as his videos spread online, the response quickly snowballed.
    — Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 29 June 2026
  • Even a balance that feels manageable at first can snowball quickly over time.
    — Aly J Yale, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2026
  • That still puts you ahead of the afternoon crunch, when delays are more likely to snowball.
    — Alesandra Dubin, Southern Living, 27 Dec. 2025
  • That still puts you ahead of the afternoon crunch, when delays are more likely to snowball.
    — Alesandra Dubin, Southern Living, 22 Sep. 2025
  • But within hours, the response began to snowball.
    — Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 3 Apr. 2026
  • There’s no ceiling, so losses can quickly snowball.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 29 May 2026
  • As Alverson and his clients entered more and more pageants, his acclaim snowballed.
    — Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
  • As the mistakes piled up for him at Georgia last season, things started to snowball.
    — Dane Brugler, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
  • But such small differences may snowball into larger deficits.
    — Markham Heid, Time, 23 June 2026
  • The numbers snowballed as teachers grew to trust Danny Go!
    — Veronique Greenwood, Time, 29 May 2026
  • If a borrower doesn't improve their score, the subprime tax can snowball over the long run, Bankrate found.
    — Ana Teresa Solá, CNBC, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Here’s a player who got injured and saw his velocity dip, and then the struggles snowballed.
    — Sahadev Sharma, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2026
  • After that, things continued to snowball.
    — Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Nov. 2025
  • But soon enough, the attention snowballed into scandal.
    — Amanda Montell, PEOPLE, 1 Feb. 2026
  • This means that more people will have to pay, while interest has snowballed, even for those with hefty monthly repayments.
    — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 1 Mar. 2026
  • But the system led to a bad start for the sophomore guard making his first career start, and everything snowballed from there.
    — Cameron Teague Robinson, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2026
  • As the Rams enter the final month of the regular season, there’s no time to allow things to snowball.
    — Adam Grosbard, Oc Register, 6 Dec. 2025
  • And as the shutdown wears on and disrupted passengers struggle to re-book their flights, the damage will snowball.
    — Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2026

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